Transgender policy; Greene on bias

Transgender policy

How can this happen in Texas? Maybe California or Massachusetts — but not Texas!

I refer to the Tuesday editorial “Fort Worth ISD sets strong gender policy.”

Everyone of rightful mind knows that sexual perversion such as pedophilia, group sex, adultery and bestiality are unspeakably sinful and wrong. The same is true of the increasingly acceptable homosexuality/sodomy.

God created us as males and females, declaring that marriage is only between a male and a female. The same is true for the so-called “transgenderism” that apparently school administrators are willing to accept!

The editorial suggests that a boy dressing as a girl may freely use the girl’s restroom —and vice versa!

“All students” must “feel accepted,” and school personnel must “show respect for the student’s desires and wishes,” according to the school district’s guidelines.

This is flat wrong! It is sinful and a perversion of the way God made us.

It should never happen in Fort Worth, Texas!

I applaud the Fort Worth school administration for clarifying the district policies regarding transgender students. The bathroom dilemma has become an ongoing problem, even barrier, for those in transition of all ages.

As good as this policy is, in practice it is ineffective.

I’ve been told that there are no doors on the bathroom stalls in Fort Worth schools! This fact totally eliminates Superintendent Kent Scribner’s call for privacy and safety.

All students should be granted privacy, not just transgender students. But in the case of the latter, the practice makes the policy worthless.

We are devolving into the world’s silliest people, with ultraconservatives trying to find the next thing to be upset about. This latest controversy is just about the nuttiest.

So now do we need to have a bathroom passport with birth certificate attached? How would anyone know, otherwise, what equipment I was born with?

Just because I look like a woman may not mean that I am. Only my older sister knows for sure.

Women’s bathrooms have stalls, so what does it matter whether someone stands or sits?

And why would a woman want to go into a man’s bathroom, for heaven’s sake? They stink.

This whole thing makes us a laughing stock in the world.

Greene on bias

So Richard Greene thinks CNN provides distorted (“liberal leaning”) coverage. (See Sunday column, “News media all over the board on 2016 presidential election.”)

Here’s a different take:

The Media Research Center, whose mission is “documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias,” recently examined the airtime devoted to candidate coverage during prime-time weekday newscasts.

From March 21 to April 15, Donald Trump or his surrogates were interviewed on Fox News for 397 minutes, the Republican field 666 minutes total.

Neither Hillary Clinton nor Bernie Sanders gave Fox an interview. Their surrogates appeared for a total of 13 minutes: 666 versus 13.

On CNN, the gap between the two parties was 515 minutes, more than 8 1/2 hours, in favor of the Republican candidates.

MSNBC was the only network to give more airtime to the Democratic campaigns (296 minutes) than the Republicans (246 minutes).

No obvious bias there.

This story was originally published May 4, 2016 at 5:34 PM with the headline "Transgender policy; Greene on bias."