{"id":13425,"date":"2019-10-01T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13425"},"modified":"2019-10-01T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:15:59","slug":"the-false-promises-of-the-equality-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-false-promises-of-the-equality-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The false promises of the Equality Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SPECTATOR \/ USA<\/strong>, by Meghan Murphy<\/a> — September 20, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… what began as an effort to protect the rights of gay and lesbian people \u2014 still persecuted in many parts of the world \u2014 has been taken over by people fighting to allow men to access women\u2019s locker rooms.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, the Equality Act states, \u2018The 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\u2019s gender identity.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the bill talks a good game, not only about protecting \u2018LGBTQ\u2019 people, but women, it simultaneously nullifies the entirety of women\u2019s rights, by <\/em>replacing<\/em><\/a> instances of the term \u2018sex\u2019 in federal civil rights law with \u2018sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity).\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect many politicians and citizens alike genuinely wish to support trans identified people and believe the way to do this is by making \u2018gender identity\u2019 a protected category under the law, but the fact is that it isn\u2019t possible to protect women\u2019s rights \u2014 which are sex-based, meaning that they exist to protect those born female \u2014 and \u2018gender identity\u2019. This is because gender identity is not a material thing \u2014 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\u2019t necessarily designated for their sex, they should not be free to access women\u2019s rights (and spaces) so long as they claim to be female. Changing one\u2019s clothes does not change one\u2019s biology.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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