You had better get with it. I'm not sure why people continue to insist that your "sex" is something integral to your created being, a function of your unique biological identity and who you were born to be -- what an anachronistic concept. So says the Department of Labor (DOL), in a recent directive stating that the Department will now interpret "sex discrimination" to also include discrimination on the basis of "gender identity" and "transgender" status. The DOL relies on a 2012 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) decision stating as much, along with other "case law principles" which supposedly support this reasoning.
One theory on which the government relies here is based on "sex stereotyping" as a form of "sex discrimination" -- because a male chooses to identify as female, the theory goes, discriminating against them constitutes a form of stereotyping how males are supposed to act, and thus constitutes "sex discrimination." Such thinking is far-fetched to begin with, but even the legal issues are not as clear cut as the government would have us believe. For while other protected classes are clearly rooted in easily-identifiable inborn characteristics, "sex stereotyping" is based on one's actions -- thus individuals are not protected based on any "gender identity" status alone if they can't show they were stereotyped, according to this theory.
In addition, the DOL points to the EEOC's argument that "treating a person differently because the person is transgender is by definition sex discrimination because it is ‘related to the sex of the victim.'" But a person "is transgender" based on a choice not a biological reality, unless someone is prepared to introduce a new biological third category of sex, beyond male and female. Absent such a creation, being "transgender" is still only "related" to sex as an action taken with regard to one's sexuality.
Ultimately, it doesn't really matter even if the "case law principles," (as the EEOC refers to them), support the government's wishful thinking on human sexuality here. A person's sex is not determined on our own, but by God who crafted us distinctly as men and women. We must recognize this truth and submit our sexuality to God for the purposes and ends for which he designed it. Anything else will only produce misery for us, for our society, and for our entire human race.
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