Analysis by Kyle A. Lohmeier
The latest chapter of the ongoing saga of the public restroom crisis in the United States was written yesterday when eleven states announced they were going to sue the Obama Administration over the bathroom guidelines the Administration issued on May 12. Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Maine, Arizona, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia in addition to two school districts, have filed suit in a north Texas federal court to block, and ultimately over-turn the directive.
It’s the 21st Century. Humankind can land a probe on a comet millions of miles away from the Earth, but in America, we’re fighting like hell over who pees where. It would be easy to blame this all on social conservatives, and indeed they deserve much of the blame, but certainly not all or even most of it, really.
This entire issue is really just another wonderful example of the absurdity of government. Rewind the timeline to the beginning and we find the genesis of this now-national issue was an ordinance passed by the Charlotte, North Carolina City Council. For no readily apparent reason, that body passed an ordinance that forced private business owners to let the all three of the city’s transgendered citizens use whatever bathroom they chose. There’s nothing novel in comparing government to a gang – they both rely on violence to accomplish their goals, and use various protection rackets (income tax) and other schemes to raise money. Like gangs, governments can be very territorial too. And, clearly, the North Carolina state legislature and governor’s office didn’t like little upstart Charlotte City Council making big rule changes. So, the state passed a law that upended the Charlotte city ordinance, and, in the process, forbade other cities within the state from writing their own laws on the matter.
This didn’t sit well with the Obama regime, which obviously sees itself as top dog. The regime sued the state of North Carolina over the law and then, just to make sure everyone knows who’s boss, Obama himself sent out a directive to all 50 states, telling them how the schools within the states are to deal with transgender students who have to use the restroom during the school day. Of course, North Carolina, not liking being pushed around by a rival gang, counter-sued the Obama regime, and now eleven more states are suing the regime over the May 12 bathroom directive.
So, now with several lawsuits going back and forth, a metric ton of taxpayer money is being wasted on an issue that began with the Charlotte City Council engaging in serious over-reach and has since snowballed into a national crisis. And, at the root of this problem, as is so often the case, are people who can’t seem to mind their own business. It is not the job of the Charlotte City Council to tell private property owners how to run their businesses. The state stepping in to void that ordinance was just, but probably unnecessary as the ordinance was largely unenforceable to begin with. Of course, the state had to go beyond just voiding the Charlotte City Council ordinance; it went on to set bathroom policy for state-owned facilities, thereby earning the wrath of the Obama regime.
That this trivial, silly and insignificant matter has risen to the level of national obsession that it has is a testament to just how completely absurd America has become in the 21st Century. There is no need for law, or even policy on this subject. Transgender people have been using whatever bathroom they want for ages, and no one much noticed. Another federal government one-size-fits-none blanket mandate is wholly inappropriate here. These matters should be handled on a case-by-case basis by the people involved locally, when it comes to public buildings. For private businesses, the owners can and should be allowed to determine their own bathroom policy – they own the place, and they know their clientele, ergo, they’re best positioned to make such determinations.
It’s fairly simple really, so that’s why it doesn’t work this way. Instead, we have a bunch of lawsuits and counter-suits. Meanwhile, transgender people still use whatever bathrooms they’ve been using forever, and the only ones benefiting from all this madness are the lawyers who are getting paid to fight it all out with our money.
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