Letters: Obama mandate hurts transgender cause

Through another of his myriad overreaching proclamations, President Obama is forcing schools to designate bathrooms and showers as gender-neutral facilities, claiming that failure to do so violates the civil rights of transgender students and threatening to withhold federal school funding for failure to comply. What about the civil rights of the other 99 percent of students? I believe this federally imposed insanity is actually another progressive step toward the moral debasement of this country and the deterioration of the family, using lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender demands as justification.

Young girls and boys struggle enough with self-esteem and physical image, particularly when peer pressure through social media is relentless, without having their privacy infringed upon, particularly in the showers, by commingling the sexes. True transgender issues should be addressed, but this situation is too complicated and important to be solved in a one-day decree without considering the rights of all. Obama does the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community no favors by forcing this upon the public.

Such rules can be a pedophile’s dream, increasing opportunities for these sexual predators. Kudos to Texas and North Carolina for pushing back against another Obama proclamation that is not the law.

This story was originally published June 5, 2016 at 6:11 PM with the headline "Letters: Obama mandate hurts transgender cause."