The Los Angeles Times editorial
board recently printed an op-ed in which they noted that “The
rights of transgender people to act in accordance with their gender identity is
fortunately gaining acceptance in many corners — including at the U.S. Supreme
Court, which just last week handed a major victory to transgender students
seeking to use the school bathrooms of their choice.” Fortunately, indeed.
Everyone should have the right to use the bathroom of their choice. A 250-lb.
bearded man who plays varsity football and sports a penis and a scrotum who says
he is a female has the God-given right, granted by his Creator, to share
bathrooms and locker rooms with budding young teenage girls, right?
Right, according to the
L.A. Times editorial board. In fairness, the Times op-ed did admit that “the
fracas over a transgender woman using the clothing-optional women’s area of a
Koreatown spa is more complicated than it might seem,” in reference to the
recent appearance of a naked transgender “woman” with male genitalia in the
women’s area of the nearby Wi Spa. Actually, this is not complicated at all:
the “transgender woman” should never have been allowed into that area…period.
Placating one man who thinks he is a woman at the expense of making countless
real women uncomfortable is not a rational approach to the issue.
The Times magnanimously
admitted that “everyone who feels uncomfortable in such scenarios” is not
necessarily “a bigot.” What insight! What tolerance! What empathy! They gave
the example of “women who have been through personal experiences such as sexual
assault who might find such a situation intimidating,” and also allowed that “It
could go against the convictions and traditions of observant Muslims and Jews,
who have a conservative or orthodox interpretation of gender norms and might
themselves feel marginalized for their traditionalist beliefs.” You think?
Yet the Times would-be
opinion shapers went on to aver that “it is clear where the rights in this
matter land. Everyone — transgender customers, members of every faith and women
who are upset by the sight of penises — has the right to use the spa and other
public accommodations.”
Catch that? The editorial
board of the preeminent newspaper in the second largest city in the United
States just said that women who are upset by the sight of other women’s
penises should just suck it up…their feelings that is. This is the mother
of all oxymorons, one that could only be uttered by morons.
Not content to leave bad
enough alone, the board added, “no one has an absolute right to feel
comfortable all the time. People have a right to use the spa, but that doesn’t include
with it a guarantee that they all will feel at ease with everything they see. Anti-discrimination
laws stand for the principle that all are welcome, whether we are comfortable
or not.” Surely the same tolerance then applies to students on college campuses.
There is no need for “safe spaces” if no one has an absolute right to feel
comfortable all the time. All should be welcome on campus, conservatives
included, no?
The op-ed noted that “This
doesn’t solve the issue of where offended people go if they want a group
experience in keeping with their religious traditions.” One might suggest a
church, but so many Christian churches in the West have been victimized by
arson in recent years it may be difficult for a person to find one still
intact.
One might attend church to
seek the truth, which is probably why so many are being looted and destroyed.
The left detests the truth. And one can see why. I may wish
to be a woman or identify as an astronaut/goat/the Eiffel Tower, but that
doesn’t mean I am any of those things.
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