Transgender ruling is naive

Regarding the article “U.S.: Illinois transgender student must get full locker room access”: In light of the U.S. Department of Education decree concerning transgender issues, what has become of the mantra, “right to privacy”? Is it not because their new “rights” will threaten the privacy of all others? Their agenda indeed will effectively abolish the rights of the rest. That it is “educators” who will execute this double standard is incomprehensible for the reason that the following assumptions on which their agenda must rest, are naive, irresponsible and absurd:

1. It is reasonable for “educators” to compromise the privacy of boys and girls by permitting people of the opposite sex to access their showers.

2. No psychological fallout should be expected from disregarding their modesty.

3. In contradiction to standard legal principles, transgender students should bear no burden of proof to legitimate their access to showers of the opposite sex.

4. Personal self-identity alone is sufficient to entitle transgender students to enter such facilities.

5. It can be expected that boys (especially) will always choose their shower facilities from “sincere” motives.

6. Heterosexual males can be expected to suppress their natural inclination at arousal by a female in their showers.

7. Transgender students should bear no obligation whatsoever to compromise.

How ironic that instead of designating separate facilities for transgender students, the same U.S. Department of Education, which shuts God out of public schools, is determined to erode those boundaries which guard fundamental human dignity, measured even by humanistic standards. While atheist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche anticipated such outcomes in his parable, “The Madman,” St. Paul already issued that warning in Romans 1:18-32.

Gary Jensen, pastor

Lake Stevens

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