To those pushing an agenda that says your bathroom is my bathroom and your gender is whatever you want it to be, we want to say:<\/p>\n
This is absurd. Patently absurd. There is no scientific reason, no justice reason, no internally consistent reason to think we can be boys or girls just by declaring it so. In our saner moments we know this to be true. No one would allow me to \u201cbecome\u201d Asian or African American even if I thought that\u2019s who I was deep down. There are facts about my biology that cannot be denied. Why is gender open to self-definition while race and ethnicity are not?….<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s not all that must be said. There are people\u2014men and women made in God\u2019s image\u2014who feel all sorts of confusion about who they are and what they want to be.<\/p>\n
To those struggling with feelings they don\u2019t understand and a sense of self that feels horribly unsettled, we want to say:<\/p>\n
This happens. All the time. Not necessarily with gender, but human identity. We all struggle to figure out who we are, especially in our growing-up years. Sometimes that means we don\u2019t know how to makes sense of our own bodies and our own sexuality. We don\u2019t want anyone to feel unsafe in a bathroom. So let\u2019s figure out how to have more unisex single stalls. Let\u2019s provide well-trained, warmhearted counselors. Let\u2019s make sure kids are not made fun of for being tomboys or for being sensitive or for being immigrants or for being Muslim or for being Christian or for being whatever.<\/p>\n