Hillary doesn't support transgender rights

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If Hillary really wanted to stand in solidarity with trangenders (confused) she would use the woman's bathroom just like any other transgender woman would.

 

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Rep. Black Blasts ‘Medically Unnecessary’ Sex-Reassignment Surgeries...

Rep. Black Blasts Vanderbilt for Covering ‘Medically Unnecessary’ Sex-Reassignment Surgeries
June 20, 2016 -- Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) blasted Vanderbilt University’s student insurance policy, which previously covered hormone therapy for transgender students but will now also cover what she called “medically unnecessary” sex-reassignment surgeries.

“Let’s be honest, this decision is not about the health and well-being of Vanderbilt University students, it is about the political agenda of liberal university administrators,” Black said in a statement. “Our institutions of higher learning exist to graduate students who are career ready and are prepared to compete in the global economy, not to play politics by providing insurance coverage of medically unnecessary procedures while raking in federal grants,” said Black. “With this stunt, Vanderbilt University has shown itself to be completely out of touch with the values of most Tennesseans, and has surely alienated more than a few students, parents, and donors,” the congresswoman continued. “I’m especially concerned that, by the university’s own admission, this decision was ‘not deeply debated in any way’ – showing just how little thought went into such a far-reaching policy. For all the advanced degrees that exist among Vanderbilt University’s senior administration, there is a painfully obvious lack of commonsense,” Black said.

Cynthia J. Cyrus, the university’s vice provost for learning and residential affairs, declined to comment on Black’s statement or the university’s decision-making process. However, in a statement to CNSNews.com, university officials said: “Representatives from the Provost’s office, the Office of the Dean of Students, Student Health and the Division of Administration served on the committee that solicited proposals from health insurance providers for student health coverage for the 2016-2017 academic year. As a result of student feedback received by committee members and the university’s desire to foster a welcoming, equitable and inclusive environment, the committee included a request for coverage for transgender-related surgeries as well as coverage for hearing examinations and hearing aids. “Each year, Vanderbilt takes into account student feedback as it carefully considers health care coverage that will impact the well-being of all students. We strive to connect students with a comprehensive health insurance package that will allow our 12,600 undergraduate, graduate and professional students to make clinical decisions in consultation with their physicians,” the university’s statement continued.

According to CampusPride.org, 72 colleges and universities in America have insurance policies covering transgender hormones and procedures. However, Johns Hopkins University, one of the pioneer organizations in performing sex reassignment surgery in the 1960’s, stopped performing the procedure at its hospital after a study by Jon Meyer, then-chair of Johns Hopkins’s Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit, questioned its benefits in 1979. Critics claimed that Meyer’s study was unreliable, and an increasing number of hospitals and clinics around America now perform sex reassignment surgery (SRS)--the removal or reconstruction of sex organs to make the subject appear as similar as possible to the desired sex--and other transgender procedures, such as blepharoplasty (alteration of eyelids), chin augmentation, and breast augmentation or removal.

However, in 2015, Dr. Paul McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, stated that “after pioneering sex-change surgery, we demonstrated that the practice brought no important benefits.... “In fact, gender dysphoria—the official psychiatric term for feeling oneself to be of the opposite sex—belongs in the family of similarly disordered assumptions about the body, such as anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder. Its treatment should not be directed at the body with surgery and hormones any more than one treats obesity-fearing anorexic patients with liposuction. The treatment should strive to correct the false, problematic nature of the assumption and to resolve the psychosocial conflicts provoking it,” McHugh wrote. A study of 324 individuals who received sex reassignment surgery and “were assigned a new legal sex” in Sweden between 1973 and 2003 also found that “the overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up than for controls of the same birth sex, particularly death from suicide…. “Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population,” the Swedish study concluded.

Rep. Black Blasts Vanderbilt for Covering ‘Medically Unnecessary’ Sex-Reassignment Surgeries

 

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Granny says, "Dat's right - she don't want no man inna bathroom with her either...

Church seeks to prevent transgender bathroom law enforcement
July 14, 2016 — An Iowa church has asked a federal judge to stop the Iowa Civil Rights Commission from applying portions of a state policy that the church says could force it to abide by transgender bathroom rules and muzzle ministers who may want to preach against transgender or gay individuals.

The nonprofit religious legal defense organization Alliance Defending Freedom filed a motion Wednesday.

The group represents the Fort Des Moines Church of Christ, which says Iowa's antidiscrimination law that prohibits public accommodation discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity violates a church's rights to free speech and free exercise of religion.

The commission says it's never enforced the law against churches and has made it clear churches are generally exempt.

Church seeks to prevent transgender bathroom law enforcement

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Texas AG on Bathroom Edict: ‘How You Feel About Your Gender Does Not Change Your Sex At Birth’
July 14, 2016 – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is leading a coalition of 13 states challenging the Obama administration’s directive that schools receiving federal funds must treat students based on their preferred gender identity, pointed out that one’s gender identity “does not change your sex at birth.”

“How you feel about your gender does not change your sex at birth, and how the president feels about his authority to write laws cannot change the fact that the Constitution grants that power to Congress,” Paxton said. Paxton joined Kyle Duncan, whose law firm Schaerr Duncan LLP is representing the North Carolina Legislature in its legal defense of House Bill 2 (HB2), in a discussion of the transgender issue at the Heritage Foundation last week. In May, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Education (DOE) released a “Dear Colleague” letter, which stated that in accordance with Title IX, schools across the country must not discriminate against students based on their gender identity. As a result, “transgender students must be allowed to participate in such activities and access such facilities consistent with their gender identity.”

In response, the attorneys general of 13 states are trying to convince a federal judge to strike down the directive. “There are hosts of reasons why letting 14-year-old boys into girls’ locker rooms is a bad idea,” Paxton pointed out. "The changes the guidance letter would cause would cause the kind of irreparable harm the courts have the power to prevent with a preliminary injunction. And we hope to have a preliminary injunction in place before school starts in August," he stated. Paxton emphasized the importance of understanding what the term “sex discrimination” actually means, because he says the Obama administration is not using it in the correct context of Title IX. “The implementing agency regulations for Title IX permitted schools to provide separate toilet, locker rooms and shower facilities on the basis of sex,” he said.

He added that Congress “has rejected every attempt to prohibit gender identity discrimination in Title IX” and “has expressly added gender identity protections in other limited areas of the law like hate crimes and violence against women.” The Texas attorney general reasoned that members of Congress know there is a difference between sex and gender, adding that the Obama administration is trying to bypass Congress because they would not go along with his definition. Paxton went on to identify several more of the legal arguments he is using against the DOJ’s transgender directive. The Administrative Procedure Act requires that “legislative and substantive rules” go through a period of public participation. Paxton said that since the gender identity edict was a binding rule, it should have been subject to this act.

Two other arguments involve “the spending clause of the Constitution.” According to Paxton, the Tenth Amendment's “clear notice” principle requires that when states receive federal funding, they must know beforehand “what terms they are actually agreeing to” according to “the unambiguous text of the federal law.” “No federal agency can validly change the terms of that deal to prevent discrimination on a person’s feeling about their gender,” Paxton said. Finally, since “the states are sovereign,” Paxton said he does not believe the federal government can hold “a gun to the head” of the states to coerce them into either following a certain edict or forfeiting their federal funding.

Texas AG on Bathroom Edict: ‘How You Feel About Your Gender Does Not Change Your Sex At Birth’