San Diego's Next Mayor and Transgender Students in School Bathrooms
What do school bathrooms have to do with San Diego’s mayoral candidates?
Well, some of the same people who brought us Proposition 8 are at it again, having gathered enough signatures to place an initiative on the 2014 ballot that would repeal California’s transgender students’ rights bill. That law is to take effect in January and will provide transgender students with equal access to school programs and facilities.
The conservative proponents of the repeal initiative call the transgender law the “Bathroom Bill,” and claim it will lead to students falsely pretending to be transgender so as to invade the bathrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex – despite there being no evidence this actually occurs.
But if there’s to be a law meant to prevent people from passing themselves off as something they’re not, perhaps it should be a law to prevent conservative Republicans from passing themselves off as progressives. This is a phenomenon that San Diego has seen a lot of lately.
What we need is a local ballot initiative we could call “Proposition F,” after the two mayoral candidates who are the worst offenders: Nathan Fletcher and Kevin Faulconer.
http://sandiegofreepress.org/2013/11/readers-write-an-impassioned-plea-for-proposition-f/
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