Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Harvard Business Review thinks that because some businesses objected to North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law, this is a sign they will all soon jump on the bandwagon, and take real action to tackle climate change.
After North Carolina passed a bizarre transgender bathroom law with sweeping implications (one that, according to the Justice Department, is probably illegal), an impressive list of big companies made their displeasure known. The CEOs of dozens of corporate giants — including Alcoa, Apple, Bank of America, Citibank, Facebook, Google, IBM, Kellogg, Marriott, PwC, and Starbucks — sent an open letter to the governor to defend “protections for LGBT people.” PayPal canceled plans for an operations center in the state, and Deutsche Bank announced it would freeze the addition of 250 employees in the state because of the law.
The floodgates of business proactively influencing societal norms and public policy are finally opening. And while some people may get nervous about this use of corporate power, I believe that businesses can have an enormous impact for good. Many other issues could, and should, follow.
At the same time, it’s worth asking why is this happening now — and what are the implications?
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In theory, then, any moral issue that moves us away from thriving economically is also a business problem — so why stop at LGBT rights? A large number of issues could fall under the same dual logic: avoiding brand-damaging human-rights issues in the supply chain, fighting income and opportunity inequality (including supporting minimum wages), and, of course, tackling big environmental issues such as climate change.
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So shouldn’t companies pounce on that kind of law, with its shocking level of ignorance and poor strategy, as “bad for business”? After all, rising seas will have a real impact on business and economic development. But the business reaction to the sea level law was nearly nonexistent.
Read more: https://hbr.org/2016/05/business-is-taking-action-on-lgbt-rights-will-climate-change-be-next
In my opinion the author is wrong about motivation. Many large businesses, businesses like Google Corporation and Apple, are managed by people who are passionate about climate change. The problem is. as Google discovered, as Bill Gates discovered, it simply isn’t possible to make a meaningful difference to CO2 emissions using current solar or wind technology.
There is X,X and X,Y and everything else is an error. Sexuality is a preference, and I dont care what my kids prefer when they grow up, but they weren’t “born” that way, preferences develop.
A man who thinks he is a woman trapped in a man’s body has a mental disorder, lets call it what it is.
This is not condemning the man who wants to be a woman, but a chemically and surgically neutered man is not a woman.
Transgenders seem to be treated and celebrated as woman, more than actual women, it’s pretty scary how society has become so warped thanks to “social justice” which is really a system rigged for preferring these kinds of people. They are “special” “brave” but the guy who works 70 hours a week to an early grave he is no hero, he is no one.
Actually I am a Lesbian trapped in the body of a man.
One of the major issues for me is this issue is being brought to kids.
Saying you (a man) were born preferring men is the same as saying you were born preferring junk in the trunk over a large rack. It’s nonsense.
Preferences are developed with experience and environment.
Gender is a human concept, there is an array of things associated with Gender, make and female on the other hand when born have no concept of “gender”. Gender is the template society applies to each biological sex. It’s not real. Viking society allowed women to be warriors, shield maidens, who fought with the men. Their template of “female gender” was very different and so were the women as a result.
The Greeks took men and women at will, without Gender even coming into it. So did the Spartans, because it was “the done thing” in the military.
You are not born gay, there has never been any supportable evidence to support this, but I have to state, there is absolutely nothing wrong with any individual’s preference, I am 100% a live and let live type BUT..
..I wont expose my kids to all this sexuality crap until they pass puberty, until then do, the normal biological coupling will be the only idea they will be exposed to. They are five and three years old. My problem is things like LGBT want to make the Frozen movie’s main character LGBT, wtf? My daughter is 2, why are LGBT trying to plant things in her head, it’s propaganda on children. Disney movies should not be passing on messages to my kids from special interest and advocacy groups!! And how do they express this “relationship” on kids, will there be kissing? that’s if they get their way.
I am not talking about the LGBT specifically when I talk propaganda, personally I am fine with the message, in material for older kids and adults.
Otherwise I dont want any messages being pushed on my kids, I just want to give them the best start I can, and letting these groups try enter their minds at 2 years old or 5 years old is beyond the pale.
Oh and ban TV from your house except for your own shows at night and vetted cartoons, the junk TV is putting into kids minds is alarming, one way brainwashing
Mark
You’re right – celebrity is the key to this.
Going transgender is just yet another of the proliferating routes society is providing to attaining vacuous celebrity, to becoming famous because you are famous.
The two brothers who directed the matrix, had this done, cos you cant live off of the success of those movies forever you know. They get addicted to the attention
I think many, if not all, with XY or XX are an error, but I’m still not willing to punish them from what they are.
One of my best friends is X0. She’s not an error, but a really cool woman.
There once was a famous bar out west with an upland bird hunting theme, mounted birds on the wall and numerous prints of gun dogs. The bathrooms were labeled “Pointers” and “Setters”. This sometimes caused confusion for city dudes.
Well, I suppose Kellog and Starbucks could at least say they have a dog in this fight, because the toilet is where their products end up shortly after consumption.
two-fold simple answere :
leav’em alone with their distructing transgender bathroom law.
leave us alone with them distructing transgender bathroom law.
Eric,
You don’t notice them searching the easy way out.
never been easy, the way out.
aside from the obvious silliness, I actually think this will be an excellent fight regarding over-reach of rule, law such as the “clean power plan” – good piece here
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435182/north-carolina-bathroom-law-obama-justice-department-governor-pat-mccrory-lawsuit
What sea level rise?
The Topex satellite data show that SLR has practically stopped or is overturning.
an article I ran across on how the fear of using Target restrooms is beginning: The nightmare scenario that everyone imagined when Target announced its inclusive bathroom policy has come true. A woman named Ellie DeLano has come forward to tell the story of how she was minding her own business, doing her business in a locked bathroom stall in a Target women’s restroom, when someone peeped through the gap in the door at her. The story has a bit of a twist ending, though:
The outer door opened, and someone came in. She walked past the three open stalls and stood directly in front of my door. Then she leaned over and placed her eye firmly up against the gap between the door and the frame and stared in at me.
I am not making this up. And let me tell you, it was awkward. Bizarre, even. This wasn’t a case of someone hoping all those occupied stalls aren’t really occupied. Mine was the only stall that was occupied. She deliberately stopped and stared in at me. My startled eyes met hers, and she moved away, into one of the larger stalls.
I got out of my stall as quickly as I could, and as I stood washing my hands, her voice called out.
“Sorry about that,” she said. “But you know, Target lets men and homosexuals use just any bathroom now. I was making sure you were a woman.”
An Article on the created fear of using Target Restrooms: http://thedailybanter.com/2016/05/woman-tells-horrifying-tale-of-being-stalked-in-target-bathroom-stall/
Right brain emotional argument don’t hold much water, IMO.
The whole fight over bathrooms is bizarre. On the one hand, we have viral political correctness, the mistaken and irrational notion that we have to cater to any and all groups, at whatever cost, because it is “right”. This then gets codified. That’s a mistake. Common sense says in the case of public restrooms it makes sense to have men’s and women’s. Men’s have urinals, women’s don’t. Now, where do transgender folks go? Where did they before the fuss? My guess is they used whichever they were more comfortable with, meaning probably their self-identified sex. If that was ever a problem before, I’m not aware of it. Anyone freaked out by transgender folks has a problem. Maybe they should see a shrink about it.
On the other hand, we have the reaction to this by religious conservatives, who of course are the ones who have an emotional problem with transgenders. What they did, via their “bathroom bill” was bizarreness squared. It is laughably stupid. It doesn’t surprise me one bit that businesses are lining up against that stupidity, which is bad for business.
The attempt to connect all the bathroom folly to “climate change” is another bizarreness piled on top. It is also pathetically desperate.
More from the wonderful institution of Harvard:
‘Harvard Law Professor Says Treat Conservative Christians Like Naz1s’
http://dailysignal.com/2016/05/09/harvard-law-professor-says-treat-conservative-christians-like-nazis/
Conservative Christians are like socialist atheists.
Fascinating how the minds of liberals work. Or not work as the case may be.
I remember fondly the good old days, but if somebody walked into the wrong bathroom there would either be a quickly mumbled”I’m sorry” , or a good old-fashioned ass beating, whichever was more appropriate.
The world has officially gone insane.
North Carolina’s recent law is not only about bathrooms. It also overturns local laws banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. If it was only about bathrooms, it would have drawn much less opposition. But now that such a heinous law came into the news and has sometimes been presented only as about bathrooms, any laws by other states or localities that are only about bathrooms will get similar attention.
Progressive confusion. Perpetual confusion.
The North Carolina law does not discriminate against transgender (i.e. homosexual, crossover) individuals, but rather removes the burden of policing from private entities, and restores laws against male and female predators. I’m surprised that feminists are not up in arms about securing their right to privacy and other matters.
As for human rights, the moral pretenders jumped the ass with resumption of reactive (i.e. selective-child) and planned (i.e. clinical cannibalism) parenthood under the State-established pro-choice religion (i.e. “church”). Does anyone actually believe in spontaneous conception?
As if the “final solution” was not enough to destroy any remaining credibility, they continue to beclown themselves by enabling institutional exclusion with the “=” movement, which has the left’s characteristically pro-choice or selective outlook.
Yes, bizarre. Like receiving religious/moral instruction from gods in the twilight zone or leveraging science to offer prophecies about future weather events.
Progressive confusion. Perpetual confusion.
The North Carolina law does not discriminate against trans…gender (i.e. homo…sexual, crossover) individuals, but rather removes the burden of policing from private entities, and restores laws against male and female predators. I’m surprised that feminists are not up in arms about securing their right to privacy and other matters.
As for human rights, the moral pretenders jumped the ass with resumption of reactive (i.e. selective-child) and planned (i.e. clinical cann…ibalism) parenthood under the State-established pro-choice religion (i.e. “church”). Does anyone actually believe in spontaneous conception?
As if the “final solution” was not enough to destroy any remaining credibility, they continue to beclown themselves by enabling institutional exclusion with the “=” movement, which has the left’s characteristically pro-choice or selective outlook.
Yes, bizarre. Like receiving religious/moral instruction from gods in the twilight zone or leveraging science to offer prophecies about future weather events.
The real trial for conflating sexes and the test of social etiquette and predatory behaviors will not be in the marginally isolated spaces of the bathroom, but in the showers, changing rooms, and other shared spaces.
We used to all get by with using just one restroom…
There is a bill in congress introduced last July that would codify that policy under federal law. It is H.R.3185 – Equality Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3185?q
Among other things the bill;
“Prohibits an individual from being denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual’s gender identity.”
So here are some likely hypothetical scenarios that might arise from such a bill:
1) I take my grand daughter shopping with me. She needs to use the restroom so I take her to the ladies room and wait outside while she goes in. A few seconds later a hairy faced man walks in behind her. Am I supposed to be ok with that? Because I am absolutely not OK with it.
2) A high school boy who identifies as a girl can now use the girls locker room even though he is still anatomically a male. So he could see high school girls who are completely naked. While the bill doesn’t specifically mention showers, I imagine that is not far behind. So boys who claim to be girls will be able to shower with the girls.
Important things to note:
The bill is based on an individual’s “gender identity” not his/her anatomical gender.
While there are no reliable statistics, it is believed that about 0.3% of the US population is transgender.
So the Democrats are happy to encroach on the privacy of 99.7 % of the population to appease the 0.3% who are confused about their gender. Also It is believed that about 1% – 5% of the US population consists of pedophiles. So It is more likely that the bearded individual who followed the little girl into the restroom is is a pedophile rather than a transgender.
There are 174 cosponsors to the bill. All but one of them are Democrats. There are 188 Democrats in the House of Representatives so over 90% of them cosponsored this bill. Less than 1% of Republicans cosponsored it. That might make you think about which party to support for congress.
Most rational LGBs don’t even want to be conflated with transgenders. One is about sexual freedom/choice and the other is about normalizing gender dysphoria. It’s a mental disorder no different than species dysphoria or body dysphoria yet they’re championed by the media as heroes despite the fact they are extremely suicidal and depressed individuals. We even have the statistical evidence that those who go through with hormone replacement therapy and sexual reassignment surgery are 3-4 times more likely to commit suicide…And what’s worse is that we’re even allowing this treatment to be given to prepubescent children!
Beyond that, race and gender are both social constructs while ethnicity and sex are genetic and biological fact. We need to stop passing emotionally charged bills devoid of logic and reason. These regressvies think they’re creating a better world for some (all 0.03% of them) when in fact they’re creating a world better for none.
As the old proverb goes: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
So ethnicity is no a biological fact in todays world. And I can assure you, people with identical biological background can have different ‘ethnicity’.
Well, what do you think the word ‘ancestral’ means? Regardless, the way ethnicity is actually applied in science, such as molecular anthropology, is by classifying genetically similar peoples as ethnic groups of which there are many hundreds of. Europe alone has over 80 ethnic groups…
Also, I just realized you misread what I was trying to imply which was:
Ethnicity = genetic fact
Sex = biological fact
I thought the word order would make that clear but I guess not…my apologies.
I have no problem with persons who have no interest whatsoever in sex, and choose not to participate.
But I have heard some quite astounding accounts of what some such persons do instead of sex. If it wasn’t that most such information came from a lifelong friend who had an extensive career as a behavioral Psychologist and Pediatrician; I just would not believe it.
Way too bizarre to even imagine.
G
Well, why not? With enough press, you can pretty much direct a bunch of lemminglike idiots in any direction you want – what difference does it make what the cause is?
It’s funny how
progressivesregressives could see the logistical flaw in Trump’s plan to stop letting Muslims into the country (how do you objectively test for “Musliminity”?), but can’t see that Charlotte’s law suffers from the same flaw (how do you objectively test for gender identity?).It was never about GLBT. It was always about power and control. And inventing Federal law out of thin air and enforcing it. Which didn’t start here and won’t stop here.
The structure of government has been radically changed, illegally, to benefit power-mad central planners.
The only potential upside is the colossal whining when the supporters are forced to violate their own consciences, as they inevitably will.
There seems to be an awful lot of hostility out there. It’s almost as bad as the climate “debate”.
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I think it might have to do with what is “normal” is now considered to be “abnormal”.
“Climate Change” is normal but some think we have to do something about it.
Male/Female is normal but some think we have to do something about it.
Those who “want to do something about it” tend to ignore what is natural…and want to force the rest of us to do the same.
There’s the tie-in.
As to which bathroom to use, that’s not a white or black, jew or gentile, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” issue.
It’s behavior.
If a guy goes into the women’s public restroom or vice versa, that’s behavior. And it shows that they don’t give a shit about what those in there “feel’ about it.
Selfish.