There are clearly a number of motivations behind the Obama Admiration’s bizarre push for transgender access to women’s rest rooms:
1. It’s part of the Administration’s agenda to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” by changing the nation’s culture in all sorts of ways great and small. Part of this effort is a centralization of all power under the Federal Government such that the States will no longer have control of anything in their territory, not even the public rest rooms. The U.S. Justice Department has established itself as a de facto “Ministry of Lavatories” with putative control over the administration of all public rest rooms through out the land, or else! The states will be forced to comply with the Federal Government’s directives to make public rest rooms and locker rooms gender neutral or lose the federal education funding they have all become dependent on over the past 50 years.
2. It’s meant to distract attention from more serious issues. Issues like the perpetually bad economy, the shrinking of the middle class and the fact this country is going so deeply into debt that it is on track to suffer an economic collapse in our lifetimes.
3. Leftists, whether in entertainment or government, love to “shock the squares”. They can never resist promoting things that will disgust and annoy Conservatives. They love rubbing Conservatives collective nose in things the Conservatives cannot abide. In this case mandated gender neutral lavatories and changing rooms.
4. Lastly this policy is intended to provoke an angry over-reaction on the part of Conservatives, ala Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. This is in the belief that the Administration will then be able to portray to the Leftist faithful how mean and angry and filled with fear and hatred for anybody not like them white Christian Conservatives are. That’s the game, the Left continually seeks to destroy things Conservatives love and cherish, as well as invade Conservative “safe spaces”, then scold the Conservatives for somehow being “angry”, “unreasonable” and “intolerant” and lacking in “empathy” for resisting the Left’s efforts. The goal being to embarrass Conservatives into giving in to prove that they are indeed tolerant and empathetic. It’s worked for the Left so far, so they have every reason believe it will keep working for them.
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One of the rare defeats progressives have suffered in the last couple of generations occurred in the 1970s, when the states refused to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, due in some large measure to the belief that the ERA would abolish separate male and female toilet facilities.
So why have liberals chosen to force the issue of "transgender" rights down our throats and trigger another (and possibly) losing fight over loo access?
The answer is not only that liberals are drawn to the issue like salmon to their home stream, but that they’re afraid to leave it be. But not for the reason you think. Indeed, they couldn't care less about the hurt feelings of the sexually confused. What they're targeting is the mindset of those men who aren't at all confused.
After all, you have to remember that their goal has always been a state of being that doesn't admit any identity for oneself other than that provided by the government. Just as many Britons cannot see themselves as hospital patients other than with the NHS or third-generation welfare recipients in a Bed-Stuy public housing project cannot imagine themselves as a human being not supported by social services. And so, in this great liberal Game of Drones, everything that provides an alternate identity must go. Christianity, regional identities like the South’s, the vanity of European history, traditional family with its rock-hard loyalties, scholarship and its “ability status,” pride in economic success in the private economy, until eventually even the idea that you have a conclusive and individual sexual identity established by nature is to be delegitimized and masculinity abolished – replaced by some determination of sex, or the lack of it, by some law or government regulation.
At which point the left-wing liberal world is finally made safe. Safe in the almost exact same fashion Middle Eastern harem keepers were safe once their male servants and guards were all castrated.
Insane, but there it is. The fight about “transgenders” is really not a struggle about them at all. Instead, it’s part and parcel, warp and woof, of the left’s larger struggle: to get your...well, to get your you-know-what.
Richard F. Miniter is the author of The Things I Want Most, Random House, BDD. He lives and writes in the colonial-era hamlet of Stone Ridge, New York; blogs here at richardfminiterblog.com; and can also be reached at miniterhome@gmail.com.
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