NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  June 26, 2008

CONTACT:  Diane Gramley   1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.537.5355

 

Congressional Subcommittee Holds Hearing with Groups Wanting to Allow Men to Use the Women’s Restroom

 

(Washington, D.C.) --   Today the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor held the first ever hearing dealing  with transgender issues.   "An Examination of Discrimination Against Transgender Americans in the Workplace," is yet another effort to get ‘gender identity’ language back in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, stated the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA).   Apparently members of the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee haven’t noticed the $4.00 plus gas prices and the need for America to work toward energy independence or the fact that California judicial activists legalized same-sex marriage in that state.  They instead want to allow men in the women’s restrooms and showers.

 

“Last year ENDA caused a split among homosexual activist groups because of the inclusion of ‘gender identity’ in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.  This whole issue shows how radical these groups are as they try to force Americans to not only accept the homosexual lifestyle as normal, but accept men who think they are women in the women’s restroom and workplace shower facilities,” commented Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

For once we agreed with Congressman Barney Frank (sort of), at least before last year when he sold out to the "transgender" lobby. 

"There are workplace situations - communal showers, for example - when the demands of the transgender community fly in the face of conventional norms and therefore would not pass in any Congress. I've talked with transgender activists and what they want - and what we will be forced to defend - is for people with penises who identify as women to be able to shower with other women."

-Homosexual Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), BEFORE he changed his mind and embraced including "transgenders" in the Employment NonDiscrimination Act (ENDA)  

Today Congressman Frank testified in favor of a ‘trans-inclusive’ ENDA – does that change the facts of his above statement?  If ‘gender identity’ is included in ENDA, Congress will be forced to explain to the husbands, fathers and grandfathers of this nation why their wives, daughters and granddaughters are going to be forced to go to the restroom with men and take showers with men who think they are women. 

Is this a civil rights issue?  There are thousands of ex-gays and one cannot really change the sex they were born.   Homosexuals are not born homosexual and men will always be men and women will always be women no matter what type body-altering surgery they subject themselves to.  

"Technically, you cannot truly change one's sex. That's why the procedure is not really called 'sex change surgery' but 'sex reassignment surgery.' The idea is to alter the physical appearance of a person's anatomy to approximate as nearly as possible the anatomic arrangement of the other sex."

- Melanie, "Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS), the Nuts & Bolts," a "Transgender Support Site"  

“ENDA is an attempt to change the law to give special rights to homosexuals and gender confused individuals simply because of the sexual activity in which they engage or the gender they think they are even though that does not match their body parts.  Congress needs to work on important issues such as advancing Congressman Paul Broun’s Federal Marriage Amendment,” Gramley concluded. 

 

 

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