Friday, February 17, 2017

TRANSGENDER SHOWDOWN AT THE SUPREME COURT

Next month, the Justices of the United States Supreme Court will, for the first time, address the question of whether laws protecting against sex discrimination in education are applicable to "gender identity." The stakes are extremely high in this case.
The ACLU is representing a high school student's claim to special rights and accesses because of "gender identity."

Liberty Counsel is deeply engaged in this case and in confronting the continuing fallout from President Obama's dangerous "transgender" edict, supported by the ACLU's LGBT agenda.

Please take a minute to read my important update below — Mat.  

Last month, Liberty Counsel's legal team filed an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Gloucester County School Board in Virginia on the so-called "transgender bathroom decision" in G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board.
The 17-year-old high school senior bringing the lawsuit is a biological girl who now says she subjectively "identifies" as a "boy." When she began using the boys' restroom in her school, some parents complained. Then, the school board adopted a policy requiring students to use either the restroom that corresponds with their biological gender or a private, single-stall restroom.


The ACLU is representing the teen's assertion that the school board's decision is "a deprivation of his rights to equal educational opportunities under federal law and his constitutional right to equal protection."

The Supreme Court previously blocked the decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that the word "sex" in the federal law known as Title IX should be interpreted to include "gender identity" and that a girl who "identifies" as a boy can use the boy's restroom.
The current Justices should uphold Gloucester's policy of restricting bathroom access to biological sex. The regulation might not be politically popular with those who want to overthrow millennia of social norms and morals, but it complies with Title IX and protects the health, safety, and rights of privacy for all students in the district.


+ + The stakes are extremely high in this case!

The ACLU recently wrote that "This Supreme Court Case Could Affect Trans Lives for Generations." Yes, this is an extremely important case. The federal law never intended to allow people to change their gender by fanaticizing they are something other than reality.

It is absurd that the Supreme Court has to address whether a girl with gender dysphoria should be treated as a boy. The federal law does not allow persons to subjectively think, and therefore be treated, as the opposite of their biological sex.

Our stand against outrageous pro-LGBTQ edicts have nothing at all to do with discrimination — but everything to do with the protection and privacy rights of our families and our children!

+ + Liberty Counsel stands with the Gloucester School Board because its responsibility is to protect the safety of students from harmful situations.

Liberty Counsel has been sounding the alarm about the inevitable effects of misguided pro-homosexual and transgender laws and directives for many years. We have been fighting in courtrooms and the court of public opinion when only a few saw what was coming!

Liberty Counsel's efforts to advance liberty, life, and family is simply not possible without a sizable group of faithful partners who share our perspective and realize that the price of protecting our shared values is eternal vigilance.


Thank you in advance for your support, and may God bless you!

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

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