Good Ol’ Republicans

They did it again; this time on a grand scale the national RNC just issued a resolution against us.

WHEREAS, A person’s sex is defined as the physical condition of being male or female, which is determined at conception, identified at birth by a person’s anatomy, recorded on their official birth certificate, and can be confirmed by DNA testing;

Stop right there! So what you are saying is that you want everyone’s DNA tested at birth? How in hell are you going to be able to confirm everyone’s DNA and what happens to intersex people? Once again the Republicans are stuck in the 1950s view of biology.

WHEREAS, Transgender policies deal with students who choose to be designated by their desired gender identity; an identity that conflicts with their anatomical sex; 

Drop your draws we are doing a check of what’s between your legs.

WHEREAS, The U.S. Congress has never included gender identity within the Title IX Federal Law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity and that mandates allowing students of one biological sex to play sports designated for the opposite biological sex;

WHEREAS, Federal courts have ruled that Title IX does not extend to claims of discrimination based on gender identity and that schools can maintain separate restrooms, locker rooms and other facilities on the basis of sex where privacy is a concern;

How about the vast majority of the courts that have found that it does cover gender identity or the 1989 Supreme Court case of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins that found that sex stereotyping is a form of sex discrimination.

WHEREAS, The Obama Administration’s Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights released an updated policy letter stating that Title IX’s sex discrimination prohibition extends to an individual’s chosen gender identity of male or female;

WHEREAS, Federal courts have ruled that the U.S. Department of Education’s interpretation of Title IX is not legally binding because the Department lacks authority to promulgate such an interpretation; and

And federal courts have ruled that it is, it is so nice to have selective blindness.

WHEREAS, Policies of the Obama Administration, presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and public schools that allow any students to use the restrooms, locker rooms, or other facilities designated for the exclusive use of the other sex infringes on the rights of privacy and conscience of other students; and therefore be it

So you are going to deny trans people their human rights just because some people might be embarrassed? Well I have a simple solution… put up privacy curtains! No one likes to be nude in front of others.

Now comes the juices parts…

RESOLVED, The Republican National Committee calls on the Department of Education to rescind its interpretation of Title IX that wrongly includes facility use issues by transgender students;

RESOLVED, The Republican National Committee encourages State Legislatures to recognize that these Obama gender identity policies are a federal governmental overreach, a misinterpretation of Title IX policies, and an infringement upon the majority of students’ Constitutional rights; and

RESOLVED, The Republican National Committee encourages state legislatures to enact laws that protect student privacy and limit the use of restrooms, locker rooms and similar facilities to members of the sex to whom the facility is designated.

So let’s ignore Title IX, let’s ignore the courts, let’s ignore the science that gender is a lot more than chromosomes, let’s ignore that fact that by having an inclusive environment that bullying drops and that students do better in school with an affirming school climate, and let’s ignore the fact that suicide rates for trans students drop in schools with a positive environment.