Posted on 05/17/2016 4:07:27 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday made an impassioned argument for his administration’s decision to instruct public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, saying that society must protect the dignity and safety of vulnerable children.
The remarks were the president’s first public comments on a directive released Friday that has added fuel to a searing national debate over transgender rights. Mr. Obama said the guidance, issued by the Education and Justice Departments, represented “our best judgment” on how to help schools wrestling with the issue.
“We’re talking about kids, and anybody who’s been in school, been in high school, who’s been a parent, I think should realize that kids who are sometimes in the minority — kids who have a different sexual orientation or are transgender — are subject to a lot of bullying, potentially they are vulnerable,” Mr. Obama said in an interview with BuzzFeed News. “I think that it is part of our obligation as a society to make sure that everybody is treated fairly, and our kids are all loved, and that they’re protected and that their dignity is affirmed.”
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Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, said on Monday that the guidance violated the principle of separation of powers, and state officials there have signaled that they will seek to challenge it in court.
“The president is turning the Constitution on its head,” Mr. Abbott told Fox News. “He’s trying to cram down as many parts of his liberal agenda on the United States of America as he possibly can” before leaving office in January.
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Elitism of the queers.
What’s the bathroom policy at the private school that Obama’s offspring attend?
It is not possible to ‘discriminate’ against a child by requiring that child to follow the very simple rules of bathroom etiquette. It more logical to require those who CAN cleanly stand up to pee to be in the facility that includes urinals. It saves time, space, and money. And it is a logical conclusion based on physiology.
Besides being illogical, Obama handled this like a total jerk.
Start with biology.
Lots of liberals on FB are all for boys in girls’ bathrooms.
Thug in chief.
A president cannot simply issue an “order” that all restrooms can must be organized in any manner. Flip the skinny foreigner the finger and move on.
Alex Jones often says that if Americans were told “Obama said to throw your children into a wood chipper” they would.
Elementary schools now have kids dressed in drag!?!?!?!
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