SPECTATOR / USA, by Meghan Murphy — September 20, 2019
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… what began as an effort to protect the rights of gay and lesbian people — still persecuted in many parts of the world — has been taken over by people fighting to allow men to access women’s locker rooms.
Indeed, the Equality Act states, ‘The bill prohibits an individual from being denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual’s gender identity.’
While the bill talks a good game, not only about protecting ‘LGBTQ’ people, but women, it simultaneously nullifies the entirety of women’s rights, by replacing instances of the term ‘sex’ in federal civil rights law with ‘sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity).’
I suspect many politicians and citizens alike genuinely wish to support trans identified people and believe the way to do this is by making ‘gender identity’ a protected category under the law, but the fact is that it isn’t possible to protect women’s rights — which are sex-based, meaning that they exist to protect those born female — and ‘gender identity’. This is because gender identity is not a material thing — meaning that it only exists in the mind of the beholder, and therefore through self-declaration. It is not something one is born with, but an ideological concept, unlike sex, which is something that cannot be changed through thought, prayer or surgery. While men should be free to reject gender stereotypes and to wear clothing that isn’t necessarily designated for their sex, they should not be free to access women’s rights (and spaces) so long as they claim to be female. Changing one’s clothes does not change one’s biology.
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