Jack Kemp

With the Biden's Executive Orders and the Congress's ban on gender specific terminology (men, women, etc.), we see a clear pattern.

Transgendered athletes will allow teen boys who claim to be women in the girl's bathroom in high schools and grade schools. So those that cannot afford a private or charter school or whose parents can't manage home schooling have to either fear for their daughters' safety. And when such bathroom policies are carried to the Capitol building itself, there women have to wonder what visitor may accompany them into the nominally named women's restroom.

Years ago, I took a bus tour to Maryland and got to visit the historic  state capitol building in Annapolis Besides seeing the room where George Washington resigned his general's commission and the tea set mounted on the wall that was in former USS Maryland naval ships (the current USS Maryland is a submarine and has no room for such tea sets), I heard an interesting anecdote. The privies (what we call toilets) at or just outside the capital were only for men. That means that any woman in colonial times either had to have friends who owned prime property near the capital or she would have great problems in visiting a state legislature session or the building itself with its Italian marble floor whose colors matched those of the state flag.

The new Biden rules on allowing transgenders in women's and girls' restrooms is a major hindrance to female participation in the activities in those publicly owned buildings.

About a year ago, Target stores announced they would have non-gender specific restrooms. In fact, on my follow up investigative visit to a big Target store and a newer mini neighborhood store near me I found no coed bathrooms. The big store kept its "Women's Room" and "Men's Room" policies, And the mini store pulled off a slick trick in the former Barnes & Noble store it occupied. They reduced the former large restrooms to two one person at a time rooms, saving money on water and other expenses. Talking to a woman while waiting in line, she told me a similar situation existed in the room converted from the older Barnes & Noble women's room she previously had used. So making people wait on line for a restroom is now disguised as virtue signaling "no gender discrimination." Either way, both women and men lose out.

And what about those transgender athletes? Biden's adaption of the weirdest self-destructive feminist policy has destroyed women's sports and women's sports scholarships as middling talented males can easily take the formerly female titles and scholarships away from our daughters. Talk about "Be Careful What You Wish For." I'm reminded of a Dennis Prager saying that some ideas are so stupid only a PhD. would believe them.

If I were a visitor from outer space - and sometimes I feel as if I am - I would look at this situation and say that earthlings in the United States have just banned women from public buildings and women's only sports competitions.

The policies of the Democratic Party appear more and more like a version of The Hunger Games and The Handmaid's Tale, with all their mean spirit rationalizations poorly disguised in their wordings as "freedom" and "liberation."

In the Sixties, some political hippies said that when they went into a store and shoplifted items, they were "liberating them." The store owner, more likely white than today with many more black and Hispanic store owners, is being "liberated" out of their rights and ownership, just like the women and girls who compete in athletics or merely just use a restroom.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at February 07, 2021 10:13 AM (/70h0)

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