Backlash

We are facing more and more counterattacks for schools and public accommodations. The more we win the harder the opposition tries to takeback our victories.

NSPCC in Mumsnet row after defending Girl Guides transgender policy
The Telegraph
By Olivia Rudgard
3 September 2018

The NSPCC [National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children] has become embroiled in a row with Mumsnet users after defending the right of transgender girls to join the Girl Guides.

The children's charity called off a planned live event about keeping children safe from abuse on Friday after users repeatedly asked questions about allowing transgender children into single-sex spaces.

Users raised concerns about children who identify as female, but who were born male, sharing changing rooms, shower facilities and dormitories with other Girl Guides.
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A staff member posted to say the event had been cancelled "because the questions here are so focused on gender identity, the feeling is that the NSPCC campaign itself and the NSPCC's specific safety messages are unlikely to get much of an airing."

It is always about bathrooms!

Don’t they know that nothing has happened with trans people using the bathroom of their gender identity.

Institutional bigotry, 16 states have jumped on the bandwagon in the appeal of the trans worker who was fired from a funeral home when she came out trans.

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Kansas Attorney General Says Transgender Case Is About 'Reducing Cost'
KCUR
By Dan Margolies
August 31, 2018

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt on Friday defended the state's decision to weigh in on a case that could limit transgender rights.


Asked by reporters about Kansas’ decision to join 15 other states in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that it’s legal to fire people for being transgender, Schmidt noted that the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Kansas, has taken that position.

“Almost certainly at some point, some plaintiff or group of plaintiffs is going to file a lawsuit to test the continued validity of the 2007 decision that binds Kansas today,” Schmidt said. “Or we can say, 'Let's do our part to try to get this in front of the Supreme Court as quickly as possible.' That adds certainty, it reduces litigation risk and cost.”

Schmidt was referring to the 10th Circuit’s decision that federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination do not protect transgender people.

That decision runs contrary to the majority of courts that have addressed the issue. And although Schmidt said the ruling was binding on Kansas, the state is free to adopt a broader interpretation of the law if it wishes, a legal expert said.

Now get a load at the reason he said he joined the friend-of-the-court brief…

Schmidt told reporters that even if the Supreme Court finds that the firing of Stephens was illegal, “that still saves the state money because we don’t have, potentially, years of litigation sorting it out in the appeals courts.”

Hey, I got a better way to save the state money… obey the law!