Obama invites transgender activist who fought bathroom privacy law to White House to use his bathroom?
President
Obama has invited a transgender activist who lobbied against a bathroom privacy
law to attend a special White House ceremony celebrating LGBT Pride Month on
Thursday.
Dr.
Renee McLaughlin led efforts against a Tennessee bill that would have responded to LGBT activism by barring
members of one biological sex from using the intimate facilities of the
opposite sex.
“I
know that will be me in harm's way,” McLaughlin, a 52-year-old post-operative
transgender physician, told the Chattanooga Times Free
Press.
A
group of 60 major corporations opposed the legislation before Rep. Susan Lynn,
R-Mt. Juliet, withdrew the bill in April.
"On
behalf of my company, as well as myself, I'm very active in LGBT issues,
particularly around increasing access to health care, and of course social
justice issues as well. I've been active in a number of national
organizations," McLaughlinsaid.
President
Obama mentioned the issue of transgender restroom use in his annual Pride Month proclamation. “We are continuing to promote equality and foster
safe and supportive learning environments for all students,” he said, the way
his administration has referred to opening the restrooms, showers, and
overnight accommodations of one sex to the other.
Obama
also wrote, “We oppose subjecting minors to the harmful practice of conversion
therapy.”
Peter
Sprigg, of the Family Research
Council, said the
entire episode is an example of “how absurd his priorities are.”
“President
Obama and his administration clearly seem determined to push through as much of
the radical LGBT agenda as they can before he leaves office in seven more
months,” Sprigg told LifeSiteNews. “The recent threat to withhold federal
funding from every school in the country that refuses to allow boys in the
girls’ restrooms, locker rooms and showers is only the latest example.”
The
presidential Pride Month proclamation “mentions a commitment 'to addressing
health disparities in the LGBT community' – without explaining that most of
those, such as high rates of HIV infection, are a direct result of the sexual
practices that self-identified homosexuals choose to engage in,” he said. “The
president says that 'no person should be judged by anything but the content of
their character,' apparently taking as self-evident the belief that the choice
to engage in harmful sexual conduct has nothing to do with the content of one’s
character.”
“Reading
between the lines, however, perhaps even the president is aware that his
administration has overreached, since the Pride Month proclamation avoids the
issue of the forced acceptance of men in women’s restrooms, locker rooms, and
showers.”
FRC
recently released a video highlighting the president's misplaced priorities.
