Editor:
The editorial of May 20, 2016 regarding transgender bathroom access is the classic liberal approach, and belief, that an opposing viewpoint would be discriminating and unequal. The editorial narrowly determined if you were a transgender American you could use a bathroom conforming to your sexual identity. The piece also indicated our country is less free without this "right" and is not a complicated issue.
I beg to differ. It brings to mind the familiar illustration of a little boy and girl, each about 2 years old, peering down their underpants with the caption, "There is a difference!" The issue of transgender bathroom rights is a Pandora's Box and ignores social norms, biological facts, sexual reality and the privacy standards that most Americans live by.
Transgenders in the U.S. represent less than one half of 1 percent of our population. So, the Obama Administration deems it necessary to extort "bathroom tribute" from public schools, and threatens to cut off federal (tax) funds unless they comply. All this for the smallest number of people who are in conflict with their biological identity. This is not an issue for private, single stall, facilities, but is a conflict in public restrooms where genitalia exposure, undress and offensive acts do and will take place. If a biological male enters a female public bathroom because they identified as a female, what happens if they exposed their factual orientation to females? Who then is offended, feels discriminated upon, is deprived of modesty and loses their dignity? Make no mistake, sexual predators are alive and well and are watching. What is next? Do gym or health club locker rooms and shower facilities become mixed with biological males and females because the federal government or a president decrees it so? This isn't about discrimination, it's about one's moral compass and what is common sense. Target, the national retailer, saw its stock drop $20 a share since applying the bathroom edict.
The editorial said America is a "free country." Rightly so, but if there are those who feel they can walk into any restroom they wish, there is a far larger majority not so inclined who feel it is offensive, wrong and that their "freedom of privacy" has been lost. Last time I looked, the majority rules, not the federal government or a president run amuck.
It is the disintegration of our historical traditions that make us a weak nation. Liberalism loosens the moral fabric of society and allows agenda-driven liberal politics to impose "rules" on those who see the world differently and deny others the freedom of opposing them.
We see the proliferation of liberal results with state sanctions of marijuana use, the redefinition of marriage, conservative "speech zones" on college campuses, anti-conservative professors banning conservative student thought, high murder rates in cities run by liberal mayors and now a Marxist presidential candidate antithetical to American freedom and our Constitutional Republic.
Your editorial portends far more than its subject. We are in a conflict of culture and a redirection of moral norms and standards. It's not as simple as the editorial states. Political ideology fed by liberal social engineering and forced upon a populace is tyranny, not equality. I guess I better stand guard next time my granddaughter enters the ladies room.
Anthony Lambros
Fallston