Insights, Issues & Istook

Say goodbye to your restroom privacy. Employers should let people use the restroom of their choice, according to new federal instructions. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration calls “guidance” rather than a legal requirement. They won't even admit that men and women are different. Instead, they write that our sex “assigned at birth” can be disregarded. We're told to be sensitive to the emotions of someone who feels trapped in the wrong body, so a male who considers himself female can use the women's bathrooms. The emotions of a transgender person are given more importance than everybody else's right to privacy. It's not just OSHA. The EEOC and some states are forcing schools to let people use whatever restroom they want. And the Obama Administration has decreed that sex change surgery will now be paid for by Medicare. This transgender stuff has gotten mighty messy.