Who’s Really Obsessed With What Happens in Bathrooms? The Left

By Dustin Siggins Published on May 8, 2016

According to the social justice and LGBT left, conservatives are too focused on what people do in bathrooms. One popular Facebook meme claims that while people are focused on bathrooms, no one notices that nuclear power plants are leaking radioactive material, while a liberal friend asked me in a Facebook debate why I take issue with people who are different than me (specifically, people with gender identity issues).

This theme  of conservative overreaction has become a major point among advocates for flexible gender identities, and not just due to the North Carolina debate. Last year, before voters overturned the so-called “Houston Equal Rights Ordinance” — which mandated men could go into women’s restrooms and vice-versa — pastors, parents and others concerned about their children’s safety and the appropriateness of men going nude around girls were accused of bigotry. Likewise, last year hundreds of parents in Fairfax, Virginia, were told by school board members that their opposition to special treatment for students with gender identity disorder was akin to racism, and they should stop acting out of “fear.”

But as the Obama administration continues to pressure schools, and now the state of North Carolina, to accept new definitions of “sex” and “gender,” it has become clear that it is the left, and not conservatives, that is too focused on what people do in bathrooms.

Houston is instructive. The lesbian mayor of the city passed an ordinance that was opposed by an ad hoc coalition of pastors, parents and social conservatives. The mayor then tried to bully opponents with subpoena threats, and a coordinated effort by LGBT activists outed tens of thousands of people who signed a petition against the ordinance.

It Started With the Left

Where did this all start? With the government’s insistence that men and women cannot, and should not, be separated by sex when changing, using restroom facilities, etc., even in privately-owned businesses.

As was the case in Houston, most parents in Fairfax and elsewhere weren’t concerned about students with gender dysphoria using the wrong bathroom until LGBT activists and the Obama administration began using teenagers like Gavin Grimm to advance their agenda. Only when schools started letting boys and girls’ use the other sex’s restrooms and locker rooms did parents protest. Mothers and fathers realized their young daughters might see men exposing themselves, and that predators and perverts who have no gender identity issues might take advantage of such ordinances and laws.

And in North Carolina, the kerfuffle began only after liberals in Charlotte put forth a totalitarian ordinance that stripped liberty from most business owners and their customers.

It’s not just bathroom policies where rational people are reacting to LGBT pressure, only to be accused of creating the problem. Professional mixed martial arts fighter Fallon Fox didn’t tell people he had “transitioned” from male to female before competing against women. After being busted — but before busting an opponent’s eye socket — Fox said women who didn’t want to fight him might “have a bias” or be “a hate-filled person.”

Contrary to the popular rumor, social conservatives seeking to prevent unsafe, inappropriate and socially destructive policies from being enacted are simply responding to prior aggression from left wing activists, many of whom enjoy political power. No conservative in America would have thought to make a public protest about transgender people if those on the left had not forced them to.

Do people with gender identity issues have real problems? Absolutely, and they deserve compassion and proper care. But that doesn’t mean schools and businesses must accept their chosen gender identity, or that the mutilation inherent in “changing” gender should be encouraged.

To my liberal friend: Do I take issue with people who are different from me? Not really. I take issue when they use government to force their lifestyle, their choices and their agenda down my throat.

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