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H/T Daily Caller Seattle Parks and Recreation is facing a first-of-a-kind challenge to gender bathroom rules. A man undressed in a women’s locker room, citing a new state rule that allows people to choose a bathroom based on gender identity. Preview Open

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A few months ago I wrote about local YMCAs changing their locker room policies to be more inclusive to transgendered individuals (to the exclusion of normal gendered individuals — double digression — shouldn’t the term “non-crazy” suffice here?), and the aftermath was great both locally and in the comments on Ricochet. One of the strongest arguments made in favor of the change (or at least in favor of not getting worked up over it) was that the Y is a private organization which individuals are free to patronize or simply ignore as their consciences dictate. It wasn’t as if this was being mandated by the government. That is, naturally, no longer the case in the People’s Republic State of Washington.

The day after Christmas, Washington state’s Human Rights Commission gave us all a gift of bathroom and locker room desegregation. It is now illegal for business owners like the YMCA or their competition at another gyms to “limit sex-specific facilities such as bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms to persons with the anatomical parts of one sex.” So, the argument that the Y (and everyone else) can do what they think right is no longer valid.

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Back in June, there was a long Ricochet discussion of transgender people, the psychology of gender dysphoria, and more. I recall mentioning the hypothetical of someone who wanted to be a child again in Bryan’s thread, but the issue dropped off the radar. Then I read this off of Jonah Goldberg’s twitter. Preview Open

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Like an unflappable beachcomber scouring the sands with a metal detector and hoping for a big find, the Supreme Court has unearthed a hitherto deeply buried constitutional right to same-sex marriage. And thus, with the imperious waving of a judicial wand, the debate has been settled. Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land […]

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I’ve seen several spot-on, anti-FIFA commentaries in recent weeks, but this one has nothing to do with corruption. Rather than focus on the scandal that has rocked FIFA, Kate Fagan’s ESPNw piece took soccer’s governing body to task over “gender verification” testing: Specifically, the screening tests used to determine the level of testosterone in female athletes. The […]

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Imagine with me for a moment: You wake up in a hospital, and the doctor is there telling you that you will be fine, but that thanks to a very rare disease, your body has spent the last 3 weeks in a coma changing your sex. Everything else will be OK, but from now on, […]

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So called Gay Marriage is over, my side lost, just a matter of time until the Supremes hand it down. I’d love to be wrong, but don’t think I am. I’ve been seeing way too many transgender and the like stories on Yahoo/Drudge in the last year, so that is in the process of becoming […]

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What do you think about this idea? Language is being privatized. For example, transsexuals want others to use a different pronoun than the one that corresponds to their genetic sex. For example, if a male transitions to a female, he/she may then want all family, friends, and co-workers to refer to him as a her. […]

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The New Republic published an article last August (yeah, I know, but someone just reposted it to Twitter and I didn’t see anything in a quick search of the member feed) called “Why aren’t women advancing in the workplace? Ask a transgender person.” The first couple of paragraphs suggest it was going to be a sloppy […]

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