LSN: 22 states ask court to block Biden-Harris rule allowing ‘transgender’ males in girls’ sports, bathrooms

A UK worker is suing for being fired for disagreeing with parts of the LGBTQ+ agenda:

2 October 2024

A school worker sacked over Facebook posts criticising plans for lessons on LGBT relationships has said she is “not alone” in losing a job over Christian beliefs.

Kristie Higgs was dismissed from Farmor’s School in Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 2019, after describing the lessons as “brainwashing”.

On Wednesday, her lawyers asked senior judges at the Royal Courts of Justice to uphold her claim against the school over alleged unlawful discrimination.

Speaking outside the High Court in London, where she is challenging an earlier decision to order a new tribunal hearing, Mrs Higgs said: “Christians are losing their jobs or facing discipline for sharing biblical truth, our Christian beliefs.” …

Mrs Higgs, who was posting on Facebook under her maiden name, shared two posts in October 2018 to about 100 friends, one of which referred to “brainwashing our children”.

Another referred to “suppressing Christianity and removing it from the public arena”.

At the original employment tribunal Mrs Higgs, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, argued she had been unlawfully discriminated against because of her Christian beliefs. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdzg89qyqo

LifeSiteNews reported the following:

22 states ask court to block Biden-Harris rule allowing ‘transgender’ males in girls’ sports, bathrooms

October 1, 2024

Women’s groups, athletes, 22 states, and many education advocates have filed friend-of-the-court briefs asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to halt the Biden-Harris administration’s unlawful attempt to redefine “sex” to include “gender identity” in Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics.

In the case State of Louisiana v. U.S. Department of Education, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent a Louisiana school board serving more than 20,000 students. The Department of Education’s fundamental and unconstitutional rewriting of federal law would force schools to embrace a controversial gender ideology that harms children – including the very children it claims to help. Schools will be required to allow males who identify as female to enter girls’ private spaces, like restrooms, locker rooms, and showers; to participate in girls’ physical education classes; and – despite logically inconsistent disclaimers saying otherwise – to play on girls’ sports teams.

“The Biden-Harris administration’s radical redefinition of sex turns back the clock on equal opportunity for women, undermines fairness, and threatens student safety and privacy,” said ADF Senior Counsel Natalie Thompson. “The Rapides Parish School Board and schools and teachers across the country are right to stand against the administration’s adoption of extreme gender ideology, which would have devastating consequences for students, teachers, administrators, and families. We commend the many athletes, teachers, and women’s advocates who have joined us in urging the 5th Circuit to continue restraining the administration’s illegal efforts to rewrite Title IX.”

“All told, the Department cannot point to any statutory authority supporting its dramatic rewrite of Title IX, let alone the clear authority required to weigh in on the major questions the Final Rule attempts to answer,” the amicus brief led by the state of Arkansas and joined by 21 other states explains. “The Final Rule’s redefinition of ‘sex’ discrimination is illegal on its face and should remain enjoined. Such a ruling would merely maintain the status quo that has existed since Title IX’s enactment in 1972 based on the universal understanding that ‘sex’ means biological sex, not gender identity.”

Women and girls deserve personal privacy, and that is “[not] because of bigotry; it is a natural instinct rooted in biological realities,” the brief filed by Independent Women’s Law Center, Women’s Declaration International USA, and Concerned Women for America states. “The first of those realities is that males alone have the biological capability to impregnate women. Combine that with other objective facts – men are, on average, larger, stronger, and more violent than women – and it is not hard to see why women are naturally nervous when made to expose their bodies around males.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/22-states-ask-court-to-block-biden-harris-rule-allowing-transgender-males-in-girls-sports-bathrooms/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa

The Trump-Pence Administration had stopped some of this years ago:

End of transgender bathroom rule gets conservative praise

February 23, 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives are praising the Trump administration’s rollback of public school bathroom requirements for transgender students, saying the move corrects a legal overreach by the Obama administration that is best left for states to decide. Transgender rights advocates, meanwhile, are vowing to overcome a major setback. …
The Justice and Education departments said Wednesday that public schools no longer need to abide by the Obama-era directive instructing them to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms of their chosen gender. That guidance, issued in May, led to a spate of lawsuits over how it should be applied, according to a letter from the departments being sent to schools nationwide.

The agencies said they withdrew the guidance to “in order to further and more completely consider the legal issues involved.” …

There won’t be any immediate impact on schools, because the Obama guidance had been temporarily blocked since August by a federal judge in Texas, one of 13 states that sued over the directive. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRANSGENDER_BATHROOMS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-02-23-08-05-52

The Obama Administration’s order, in my view, was not only morally wrong, but unconstitutional. That is basically the same for the Biden-Harris Administration’s perverse transgender push as well.

Notice also:

October 1, 2024

Supporters of letting gender-confused children obtain surgical and chemical mutilation have found allies in campaign workers for failed Republican presidential campaigns.

“Conservative officials, advisors, and activists” submitted an amicus brief in the U.S. v. Skrmetti case.

The pending Supreme Court case will decide if Tennessee and Kentucky and, by extension, other states can protect gender-confused children from harmful puberty blockers and damaging surgeries to remove healthy organs.

The early 2000s campaign workers, many of whom are now lobbyists or consultants, have also found allies in a handful of legislators who think parents have a “right” to take their 12-year-old daughter and have her breasts removed and made permanently infertile, ensuring they will never have grandkids.

This includes Missouri Republican state Representative Chris Sander, who based on his posts on X (formerly Twitter), is primarily concerned with pushing LGBT issues.

These procedures are sometimes called “sex changes,” although the new euphemism is “gender-affirming care.”

Much like how liberal Republicans have played the “limited government” card to support the abortion of innocent preborn children, this amicus brief says being conservative actually means lying to children and letting them present as the opposite sex. It is not possible for someone to change his sex – this is a well-established biological fact and moral truth. https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/romney-mccain-campaign-staffers-ask-supreme-court-to-allow-child-sex-changes/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa

Additionally, taking this a step further, long-term studies for those surgically-transgendered tended to show such poor outcomes that places like Johns Hopkins stopped performing such surgeries (at least for a time).

Many, if not most, transgender people ‘cross-dress,’ yet that is condemned as an abomination in the Bible:

5 A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 22:5)

The Bible clearly condemns cross-dressing. The Bible also condemns males acting effeminate:

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, KJV)

Males are not to act like they are female.

The Bible warns against not only sexual immorality, but approving it:

20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man — and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. (Romans 1:20-32)

The USA is not benefiting from homosexuality or the transgender agenda. Surgically changing one’s sex organs is dishonoring one’s body. Making unmarried males and females expose their nakedness to each other is wrong for many reasons.

God made humans male and female:

27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1:27)

Nowhere in the Bible is any human considered to be any sex/gender other than male and female. And those who act otherwise are warned against (Deuteronomy 22:5; 1 Corinthians 6:10-12; Romans 1:18-32). One is not a different gender than their actual genitalia.

But many others have their own, antibiblical ideas. Yet:

33 God is not the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33)

The transgender agenda encourages and exploits confusion. It is NOT good for those who consider themselves transgendered.

It is a positive move when the transgender agenda is not forced upon society.

Some items of possibly related interest may include:

Cross-dressing and other assaults against your children. What should you do? Is there an agenda to turn your children and/or grandchildren away from biblical morality and towards practices promoted by homosexuals? What does the Bible teach about cross-dressing? What should parents do? If there is an agenda, what has been going on? There are also videos related to this, titled Transgender ‘Woe to those who call evil good’, Cross dressing and Other Assaults Against Your Children, Disney’s abominable promotions!, USA pushing gender confusion, and New Transgender Study.
The Bible Condemns Homosexuality “Same-sex marriage” for “gays” and lesbians is becoming more acceptable to many. What does the Bible teach about homosexuality and the LGBTQ agenda? Can homosexuals change? A related video sermon is titled: What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? A short video is available titled: Gay Gene? Born That Way?
The Ten Commandments: The Decalogue, Christianity, and the Beast This is a free draft/unedited pdf book explaining the what the Ten Commandments are, where they came from, how early professors of Christ viewed them, and how various ones, including the Beast of Revelation, will oppose them. A related sermon is titled: The Ten Commandments and the Beast of Revelation.