GENDER ACTIVISM SWEEPS AMERICA
By Harmony Grant
21 May 10
Type “ENDA” into Google’s news feed and you will
find that most news about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act is
being generated by homosexual and transgender activists who want the
bill passed. Rep.
Barney Frank says an ENDA vote is being pushed back
until late June or early July and Washington news source The
Hill says
ENDA has “dimmer chances” of passage than a repeal
of Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell.
But its supporters are hardly muting their vehement demands. The Christian
right is comparatively quiet, primarily requesting tame petitions and
mail-ins while the left aggressively phones in and shows up. For example,
a pro-ENDA protest was held outside the Federal Building in San Francisco
May 18. In Chicago, thirteen gay activists were arrested after refusing
to leave Sen. Dick Durbin’s office, where they
were demanding passage of ENDA.
Pro-ENDA
protestors in San Francisco.
One of the arrested homosexuals said, “I am here because we
can no longer sit around and wait for our rights to be handed to us
by politicians, we must demand our rights from them. We have to be
here to fight for those who are forced to remain invisible and deny
who they are just to make a living.”
She is saying homosexuals have a right to be hired by private
employers and businesses—which is no American’s right!
She is also saying homosexuals have a right to be and remain hired
while forcing their sexual preferences or gender transition into full
view of customers or fellow employees.
States with at-will employment laws would be required by ENDA to rewrite
their statutes. Employers of fifteen people or more would no longer
have the right to hire and fire at will—distributing
their hard-earned capitol to job seekers as they see fit—but
to justify their choices based on political correctness of the most
obscene flavor.
Increasingly, employers are losing their rights to uphold traditional
values or even simple, non-offensive gender representations in the
businesses they own. New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo has forced
clothing retailer American Eagle Outfitters to change its uniform policy,
which required men to wear male uniforms and women to wear the female
version. The retailer is now required to let its 2,000 New York employees
choose the gender of uniform they prefer.
AEO came to a settlement to avoid a drawn-out legal battle. NY
Daily News says “this
is the first crackdown against a retailer under the section of the
state’s Human Rights Law
that bars employers from discriminating against applicants because
of their gender identity.” If applicants had male
birth certificates and wanted to wear male uniforms, there would
be no problem. Intersexual individuals and transsexuals who have
fully transitioned would not be affected. This is a problem for applicants
hired as one gender who want to wear the clothing of the opposite
gender. This is a problem, in other words, for gender activists.
A
transgendered “woman” in California is suing the retail
giant Macy’s on grounds of wrongful termination and gender-related
grievances, including being ejected from the women’s restroom.
She was fired for alleged insubordination and foul language but claims
she was repeatedly harassed and discriminated against because of her
gender. In Pennsylvania, a transgendered “woman” is winning
a discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, brought before
the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission. She was hired as “James” but
was transitioning to “Kate Lynn.” Her employers required
her to use a unisex bathroom until she could provide medical documentation
of her “anatomically appropriate” gender.
Such lawsuits will multiply as gender activists attack employers they
perceive as hostile toward their transgender status or current transition.
Such activists are seeking to make a political statement not to quietly
make peace with their own situation. If homosexuals or transsexuals
wanted to do so, most could easily live within traditional environments,
exercising their own sexual freedom at home while not offending their
employers, coworkers, or customers. This has been proven by intersexual
individuals who have been forced by biology to transition and who find
ways to live in society without making others needlessly uncomfortable.
For some Americans, transitioning from their assigned gender has nothing
to do with activism. It is not about politics, mental illness, or rage
against the system; it is biological. In one to two percent of live
births, babies are born with disorders of sexual development (also
called intersex conditions) that create ambiguous genitalia or other
birth defects. Such babies may be incorrectly assigned a gender as
medical professionals struggle to label extra chromosomes, ambiguous
genitals, or ovotestes. Such babies may grow into adults who realize
their brains, spirits and hormonal makeup do not align with the gender
in which they were raised. They deserve compassion, empathy and assistance
in finding medical and psychiatric treatment for this very genuine
and difficult affliction.
“Gender queer” activism, though it includes some intersexuals,
is different. It advocates for unlimited gender transitioning—whether
biologically based or not—that requires no more justification
than an individual’s desire. Such activism also presses for acceptance
of a “gender spectrum” with many more options than “male” or “female.” By
assaulting the gender binary, this activism threatens the very structure
of society, the family, and marriage. Incredibly, it may soon become
enshrined in federal law. If ENDA passes, the 38 states which do not
currently forbid gender identity discrimination by employers will be
forced to uphold this ban.
If this assault on the gender binary continues, the shattering outcomes
on American society are limitless. Schools will be forced to allow
boys on girls’ teams and vice versa and may even implement “third
gender” sports. Science classes will teach a gender spectrum
along with homosexuality, presenting “male” and “female” as
an outdated myth. Children will be raised to believe that they may
be “male, female, both or neither.”(Take
a look at www.GenderSpectrum.org)
This blurring of gender roles is a perfect way to promote homosexual
experimentation among children and teenagers.
GenderSpectrum.org - presenting
"an overview of how society currently defines gender and
how these restrictive definitions can be detrimental to those
who do not fit neatly into these categories.
We then help you identify
and remove the obstacles so all are free to be our authentic selves."
If employers are no longer able to define gender through uniform or
restroom use, how can teachers or even parents or pastors be
permitted to uphold traditional gender definitions?
ENDA—along with other “homosexual rights” activist
legislation—is a militant assault on the very fabric of American
society and values.
Harmony Daws is a staff writer and researcher for the National Prayer
Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization. Rev. Ted
Pike is the director of the National Prayer Network.
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