Monday, January 13, 2014

A Good Discussion on California's law AB1266

The LA Times has a good discussion on the new law in California, the School Success and Opportunity Act.

Transgender students 'just looking for their place in the world'
The fight for gay rights has essentially been won. So why is anyone worried about giving legal protection to transgender minors?


The article by Robin Abcarian refutes the claims made by the anti-law groups, she says...
Schubert, a political operative, helped orchestrate Proposition 8, which briefly outlawed gay marriage in California. Supported by the Pacific Justice Institute and other well-known gay marriage opponents, he is running a new group, Privacy for All Students, which gathered more than 600,000 signatures, mostly from evangelical Christian churches. About 505,000 signatures must be valid for the measure to qualify for the November ballot. Results will be known by early February.

What you often hear from people horrified by the new law is that forcing "normal" students to share a bathroom with a transgender peer amounts to a kind of "reverse-bullying."
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School districts in Los Angeles and San Francisco, which have had transgender-friendly policies for years, have not reported problems.

But Gina Gleason, director of faith and public policy at the Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, told me she doesn't live in Los Angeles or San Francisco, and she doesn't know about that. Her church has worked hard to gather signatures to overturn the law.
And that is just the problem, "she doesn't know about that" and they don't care to learn because it might go against their faith. To them the world is black and white and what was write 2000 years ago is fact. God made "man" and "woman" and no amount of scientific evidence is going to change their thinking. 

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