Halt! Who Goes There?

     Having been absence from my post of blogging for such  a long time, I find it difficult to zero in on one particular subject.  Nevertheless, I will give it a try.
     It is a very difficult time that we live in today; black snow falls, faith's wings have been clipped by reason's scissors, those things that used to be right are now considered wrong, and those things that were considered wrong are now considered right.  I seems as if there are no longer any absolute values in which something is absolutely right or absolutely wrong.  Even in our churches we have tried to make room for everybody.  Brother that's too much room.
     The latest attack upon society is the wave of interest in the transgender demands.  Here we have cries to disregard the wishes of the majority of the nation to satisfy the whelms of less than 1% of people who claim to be a transgender identifying as a person opposite to their natural identity at birth.
     No one has come close to explaining how a transgender person is being discriminated against if you have bathrooms for male, bathrooms for female and bathrooms for transgender people.  Even where is the problem of having a unisex bathroom where a person goes in an locks the door.  There is no way to protect the girls and women in the bathrooms from a grown sexual pervert who wants to claim that he now identifies as a woman.
     In Texas recently there was a person born as a female, identifying as a male who was in the process of taking testosterone and wished to compete against girls.  As in so many situations here is a person who wants their cake and eat it too.  We have opened Pandora's box! 
    

Living in the Land Where Thinking It Makes It So

     Somehow we have lost our way.  During the space of time that God has allowed me to live upon the face of His earth we have turned many things completely around.  We do not live in a perfect world.  There are situations every day in which there is no perfect solution for everyone a concerned.  We must remember that my rights end where your rights begin.  But we have forgotten that most important concept.
     I am not questioning the rights or the wrongs of any of the sexual preferences of those involved, but I am questioning the handling of many of the decisions that the government is forcing upon society.  Because of space allotted I will only deal with the transgender topic at this time. 
     I understand that there are some born as a female who wish to be a mail and the expression is they identify as a male and then there are those who are born with the sexual attributes of a male and they desire to be a female.  The much worn phrase is they identify as a male or female.
     Enter a problem, what do they do now?  For thousands of years these individuals, assuming that this condition has always existed, have coped with the situation and were able to live productive lives as others who have conditions in their life to which they had difficulty adjusting.  Obviously that would be one solution.  The opposite end of the spectrum they have the option of having very expensive, radical body changing surgery.  (Is this now a civil right that a person has for the government  to pay for any change in their life in which they find themselves uncomfortable.)  There are many who have in the past and obviously will in the future who will proceed with the surgery.  The liberal group would say it is not right for them to have emotional struggles with the identity problem.  It is very doubtful that the emotional struggle will be over when the surgery is finished.  It may just be starting.  Some statistics show that the suicide rate among those who have had the transformation take place is twenty per cent higher than the normal population.
     In the meantime we have another problem.  Let us look at what might be a typical classroom setting in which we have five boys, five girls and two transgender persons--one a male who identifies as a female and the other a female who identifies as a male.  They are now all sixteen years old and for all of their school life they five boys and the male who identifies as a female have all used the same bathroom and shared the same dressing room/shower facilities.  The situation being the same for the five girls and the female who identifies as a male.  Each group has seen each other in the nude all of these years.  Now the male identifying as a female wishes to go into the girls dressing room, restroom and shower.  He is uncomfortable after all of these years being with the boys and wants to be with the girls.  Our great leader says to the school, if you don't let him do this we will cut off your money.  He would echo what many liberals are saying, you must consider his situation and not treat him any differently.  May I ask a simple question, What about the rights and feelings of the five girls and the one girl who identifies as a male, do they not have any rights?
     Do you imagine there might be a little different situation with the other group.  These five male and the male identifying as a female have shared the same dressing room and shower for years and here comes a girl to dress and shower with them.  You would have to be a fool to not see that acceptance and/or rejection is going to be different in the two different dressing rooms.
     Up until now we have always acknowledged two groups, male and female, and have provided, accordingly, facilities for two groups, male and female.  So, since we now have a third group, what could possibly be discriminating about having three facilities, male, female, transgender.  What's that?  It would make the transgender stand out if he/she had to use a separate bathroom.  Not as much as the nude body would stand out in a group of nude girls.
     Outside of the three bathrooms, the only other logical situation is one unisex facility; go in, lock the door and have your own preferential privacy.
     As an afterthought, if you can't beat them join them.  I have always wished that I could sing.  So, hereafter I shall let it be known that I identify as a musician.  I need a little funds to get me to Nashville, Tennessee.  I am sure that the government will force any of those recording companies to give me a lucrative contract.  I have in mind about the same amount that a sex-change operation would cost.  It obviously does not make any difference that I do not know one note from another, all that matters is that is the way I wish to be perceived.  Better times are just on down the road.

Say, It Ain't So

     It seems to me that there is someone out there who sits around and tries to think up the most absurd things that they can.  I think they have finally succeeded.  The federal government is contemplating cutting off all funds to the schools that do not allow transgender persons to use the same dressing, showering, bathroom privileges, etc as the other sex.  Let me see if I have that correct.  A boy who identifies as being a girl can go into the girls showers and shower with them or a girl who identifies as being a boy can go into the boys shower and shower with them. 
     Now there is no way of predicting the feelings of everyone involved, but I would think most of the girls would  be offended with the nude "male looking body" being in there and probably some of the boys would welcome the "female looking body" to be showering with them.
     I will try to look at this as reasonably as I can.  For centuries we have identified two different sexes--male and female.   Because of this identification, many places have tried to accommodate both groups by providing separate facilities for dressing, showering, bathroom usage, etc.  Now, who could possibly be offended, since we have a third way of identifying people, that we have three separate facilities, one for each--male, female and transgender.  Surely, those identifying as a transgender should not bother using a single transgender facility since they are wanting to use one that is not like them anyway.  Of course this would be a temporary arrangement until the proper surgery has been performed to transfer them into the particular sex that they are identifying with.
     Gosh, that would never work because it is to reasonable and obviously not politically correct.