Bathroom guidelines

Bathroom guidelines

In typical media advocacy methodology, the Star-Telegram has gone all out in its advocacy of bathroom rights for “transgendered” people.

The editorial comments, the selection of letters to publish, the sympathetic news stories and the sneering dismissal of other viewpoints try to make it seem there is universal agreement, despite polls showing 57 percent of ordinary Americans oppose men in women’s bathrooms and vice versa.

To date, however, no one has given a good argument as to why 320 million normal Americans should suffer discomfort, embarrassment and loss of rational privacy rights so that a few thousand confused individuals can feel comfortable.

Surely there are some who are not in sync with the new policy of letting transgenders use the bathroom that corresponds to the sex they think they are instead of those that correspond to their real sex?

Common sense has disappeared from this country in favor of political correctness.

When we have to write laws or policies that tell us what restroom to use we are coming apart at the seams.

If a person has male parts he should use the men’s restroom, regardless of what he aspires to be.

If a person has female parts, she should use the women’s restroom, period, end of story.

If there is a unisex restroom, fine, but one at a time, please.

Thanks to the Star-Telegram Editorial Board — and many clear-minded neighbors — for the deserved dismissal of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s fear-mongering hate-speak against Fort Worth school Superintendent Kent Scribner.

It was Patrick’s stock-in-trade on talk-radio, and it got him elected?

Fortunately it doesn’t play in our Fort Worth, where level heads prevail!

This story was originally published May 13, 2016 at 5:32 PM with the headline "Bathroom guidelines."