Posted on 03/15/2016 10:33:39 AM PDT by wagglebee
BOSTON, March 14, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - A bill that would allow adult biological males to shower or change alongside young girls has earned the endorsement of two prominent teachers unions in Massachusetts.
State legislators are considering a bill that would specifically open all public restrooms, shower facilities, and locker rooms to transgender people.
"An Act Relative to Gender Identity and Non-Discrimination" (H.B. 1577) would add "gender identity" to the state's protected classes able to access all public facilities, such as private changing areas. Lawmakers specifically exempted "lawfully sex-segregated facilities" when it passed a 2011 ordinance granting transgender people protected legal status, but included school restroom facilities.
"The issue with the latest bill is not that it opens up opposite sex restrooms in the schools, because they're already open in the schools at this point in Massachusetts," Sean Ryan, director of communications for the pro-family watchdog group MassResistance, told LifeSiteNews.
"This pending legislation opens the floodgate to adults being able to victimize children in public facilities," Ryan continued. "Erasing the distinction of sex and allowing men to use opposite-sex facilities is a predator's dream."
The Massachusetts Teachers Association - the state affiliate of the National Education Association (NEA) - and the American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts announced that they support H.B. 1577. So have two professional organizations of public school administrators: the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents and the Massachusetts Association of School Committees.
"Groups that should be advocating for children's safety have turned against parents and endorsed a legal concept that by nature puts children at risk," Ryan told LifeSiteNews.
The group has compiled a list of incidents in which men have physically threatened, attempted to rape, or otherwise sexually revealed themselves to women and girls in private facilities.
It's not merely public sector unions fueling the bill with compulsory union dues. Titans of the private sector have also backed the bill.
Business members of Freedom Massachusetts, the key group lobbying for the law, include Facebook, Twitter, Google, the United Way, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the online backup service Carbonite, Planet Fitness, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, along with dozens of other firms.
"The transgender lobbying organization 'Freedom Massachusetts' is backed by dozens of insurance companies, law firms, big banks and San Francisco tech companies trying to force their values on all of us," according to the Massachusetts Family Institute, which is also fighting the bill.
But Ryan says the teachers unions' support calls into question the underlying quality of public schools.
"Educational development demands that children are taught facts, not a subjective notion advanced by radical activists that has no basis in reality," Ryan told LifeSiteNews. "Teachers endorsing such phony concepts should make one wonder about the quality of education in general in the Bay State."
If I had anything with public restrooms I’d convert them all to individual unisex ones with a toilet, sink, and door with a lock on it. Problem solved.
public school teachers union=scum of the earth.
Pedophilia will be foisted upon society by hook or by crook.........................
we will never get all these worms back in the can
Actually, it makes sense on the left, since the NEA seems to have established itself as the official Pedophilia Wing of the DNC.
What I don’t get is this...
Most teachers are women (76%). And yet they support this insanity that I think would not be in their interest or the interest of their daughters.
WHY??
Also, most “civic leaders” that support this crap are also women!
It boggles the mind.
These people are sick.
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The backlash will be that no young women will be showering at those schools. They will vote with their feet...and armpits.
Suddenly there are millions of applications from males for medical affidavits to be declared transgender.
From bathrooms to showers. I didn’t see this coming, but it was predictable. The left is never satisfied.
I’m so tired of all these “Pervert access to children laws.”
Everyone needs to fight back even harder.
I would head to any one of those states in a heartbeat if i could.
Maybe in a few years...
On the plus side, the girls will have another place to hang their towels while they’re showering.
“If I had anything with public restrooms I’d convert them all to individual unisex ones with a toilet, sink, and door with a lock on it. Problem solved.”
That would solve the problem, but the left doesn’t want to solve the problem. They are using this to force people to change the value system they learned from their parents and religious institutions.
And this is relevant to collective bargaining on behalf of their members HOW, exactly?
Because leftists are the insane that walk among us.
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