Texas responds to Obama and his bathroom dream

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(06-02-2016, 06:15 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Do you think the courts are using the correct words when they are being discriminated against because of their sex? 

(06-02-2016, 07:55 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Which is a total BS argument...because regardless of what gender they feel they are, it doesn't change their physical sex.  It simply cannot be discrimination to tell a boy with a penis to use the boy's room.  Otherwise, you have to be talking "separate but equal' which must then necessitate unisex bathrooms for all.

Gender is not a protected class, and the POTUS cannot unilaterally make it one. 

Yes, they are using the correct word for their argument.

What they're arguing is that bathroom use is assigned by gender, so if you are telling a trans boy that he cannot use the boy's bathroom because his sex is female, then you are discriminating against him on the basis of sex. 

It's a controversial interpretation, sure. It might even be a stretch. This is what a federal appellate court upheld in Virginia, though.