The Patriot Post® · Obama's School Fascism
The first entrenched, useless bureaucracy that should be abolished under a potential Trump administration should be the Department of Education. From on high (and in lieu of holding taxpayer money at ransom from the states like crack cocaine), Mr. Obama has decreed that a transgender student must use any facility — bathroom, locker room or shower — of that person’s choice. So that means that a teenager that is physically male can use the private spaces of potentially disrobed females. And what of the rights — and comfort level — of the vast majority of impressionable girls?
Once again, this is big government tyranny of the left promoting the fiction of “inclusion and fairness” while achieving its polar opposite: a blatant anti-biological girl policy. To quote the DOE and DOJ advisory letter: “A school may not require transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so.” So, the simple solution of allowing a transgender student to, for example, utilize a third option like a individual staff restroom — which incidentally evenly respects all parties — isn’t good enough. Though progressives live in a time warp, this is not a modern version of a ‘60s style Jim Crow discrimination. This is more of Mr. Obama’s anti-American radicalism: his fundamental transformation of America. Specifically, this tempest in a teapot is just another excuse for “Christian” Obama to undermine thousands years of Judeo-Christian cultural norms that inform our culture.
Let me be clear: this is not about the individual rights of transgender students. This is about fascist ideologues (read: progressives) promoting Saul Alinsky style conflict: misusing the extensive power of government to force an agenda that expands their own political power. Moreover, this wrongdoing is always done at the expense of freedom. A true-blue U.S. president and Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, said: “When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” With today’s school edict added to his flurry of ultra-constitutional executive orders, what exactly does that make Mr. Obama?
Heretofore, the running of public schools was a local issue managed by individual states. No more, under our statist overlord masquerading as president. Now, Big Brother Obama’s lash runs the gamut: Christian bakers can be forced to bake “gay” cakes, and groveling vendors like Target (reading the Obama tea leaves) institutes the “good” policy of dangerous unisex changing rooms. What’s next? NSA surveillance of our bedrooms? Put nothing past these authoritarians. For almost eight years, George Orwell has turned in his grave.
David L. Hunter is on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Patriot Post, FrontPage Mag, and extensively in Canada Free Press and American Thinker.