This Is What We Are Facing!

As we struggle to be treated equally; the opposition is doing everything to prevent us from obtaining equality. They are willing to “bear false witness” against us, they are willing to create fear and hatred to keep us in the closet.

How The Pacific Justice Institute Plans To Continue Demonizing Transgender Children
Think Progress
By Zack Ford
December 2, 2013

The counting is not yet done, but early indications suggest that opponents of California’s new law protecting transgender students (AB 1266) will not have succeeded at collecting enough signatures to challenge its passage with a referendum. But the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), one of the groups working to overturn the law, has a plan for continuing to demonize transgender kids whether the referendum advances or not.

On a radio broadcast on November 16, PJI’s Brad Dacus explained that the group will continue to seek out “victims” — any student who has been made uncomfortable by a transgender classmate — to pursue a court case:

    DACUS: If we for some strange reason they declare we did not have enough valid signatures, then we at Pacific Justice Institute are preparing to challenge this in federal court.

    We don’t want to wait till after — to January first when we have the victims. And, the only way we can preemptively do this is if there’s parents out there — perhaps you’re listening to us — and your son or daughter knows that there’s at least one child in their school that claims to be a transgender [sic]. They claim that inside they have these feelings that they are the opposite sex. If that child can validate that this transgender [sic] has expressed their intention to use the opposite sex’s bathroom or locker room or showers, and they’re willing to come along side to be a plaintiff at our action, and if their child — and we’ll give anonymity, we’ll protect their identity — if they can do that, then they should contact us because that gives us standing to be able to have a preemptive action and to get this matter — to get injunction against this enforcement as a violation of the U.S. constitution’s right to privacy that it guarantees to all of us, including to young adolescents and other children. So, contact us at Pacific Justice Institute if you know anything about this, if you have any information like that.

Notice they did not say anything about a trans-student breaking a law, just their mere presence will be enough to file the law suit. This is the same organization that has threatened a law suit out in Florence Colorado.

The San Francisco Examine said in an article that,

These fringe organizations have been failing on issues like marriage, and now they’ve turned to targeting students,” said Mark Snyder, communications manager of the Oakland-based Transgender Law Center.

The folks at Privacy For All Students seem to be completely uninformed about how gender identity works and should probably do a little research before launching a referendum.

From PrivacyForAllStudents.com: “A student can assert a gender identity at school at any time.” It’s, like, the equivalent of a themed dress day during Homecoming Week. “Because gender identity is based on feelings… he or she can be both transgender and heterosexual at the same time.”

Actually, the fear they’re trying to instill here is that if a student is transgender and homosexual, a female-to-male attracted to males, he will cause chaotic, sexualized confusion in the boys’ locker room. By this wayward logic, then all homosexual students, not just homosexual transgender students, should not be allowed to ogle at half-naked football players in the showers.

Because the general population does not understand what it means to be transgender they are susceptible to these lies the right-wing are preaching.

Down in Florida they have a training camp on how to use fear against us. The Transdavocate reports that,

Recently, an equality effort in Florida was defeated by appealing to the ‘trans people = rape’ meme. As it turned out, appealing to this meme was deliberate and is, in fact, part of a curriculum currently being taught to anti-LGBT activists. The TransAdvocate obtained audio from one of the training sessions given by the Christian Family Association (CFC) on October 5th, shortly after their successful defeat of a Florida equality measure that included trans people.

Cristan Williams goes on to expose more lies that they use against us. She said that they claimed that “there have been 4 rapes by men, dressing as women lying in wait for their victims in ladies rooms.” However, the chief of police in Montgomery Country said in a letter that “Since this law has been in effect, we have had no reported rapes committed in restrooms by men dressed as women.”

The truth and “bearing false witness” is not important to these groups who want to spread their hate and bigotry to deny us our freedom.

You can listen to their hate in this audio clip from the seminar…