In 2015, the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges redefined marriage to include two women or two men. In doing so, they overturned thousands of years of human history and experience and also struck down thirty state Constitutional Amendments defining marriage as only the union of one man and one woman. With that bit of constitutional fakery and judicial tyranny, they opened the flood gates to disastrous consequences.
We are dealing with one of those consequences today. In the 2020 case of Bostock v. Clayton County the Supreme Court ruled that the word “sex” in Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act includes “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Before Obergefell, if someone had claimed that you can change your gender by simply declaring a new “gender identity,” we would have recommended they see a psychiatrist!
Once the Supreme Court said the definition of marriage is not fixed, it did not take long for the Godless Left to take the next logical step. If the definition of marriage is not fixed, the definition of gender is not fixed either. The Court fell in line with this morally bankrupt thinking. Once you start dismantling absolute standards, there is no telling what’s next.
It is amazing how quickly the insanity took root. Facebook and other institutions claimed that there were over 100 genders. Prominent news anchors like Chuck Todd publicly stated that gender is “fluid,” not fixed. What that means exactly is anybody’s guess.
People lost their jobs for “misgendering,” i.e., failing to use the proper gender pronoun.This is not simply a “he” or “she” choice. The sexual ideologues made up nine new pronouns such as ze, zir, hir, and so on. Some claimed their proper pronoun as the plural “they” rather than the singular he or she. Your job and career could be on the line for failing to master this new vocabulary of gender confusion.
In 2018, Peter Vlaming, a teacher at West Point High School in Virginia, was fired for refusing to bow to this delusional thinking. To avoid confrontation and the compromise of his principles, he used a so called “transgender” student’s last name, only to be told that was not good enough. He was summarily fired.
It took six years for him to be vindicated in the courts, but did he really win? The cult of sexual ideology is happy to ruin careers, destroy businesses, and consume people in endless lawsuits. Most people, intimidated by the cost of years of litigation, would rather fold than fight. Most politicians are not profiles in courage either.
This is why the overwhelming majority of Americans cheered when President Trump stated in his inauguration speech that there are only two genders – male and female. At last we have a President who is unafraid to stand up for the truth and implement it as governmental policy.
On his first day back in office, he signed an Executive Order requiring all institutions receiving federal funds to discontinue support for so called transgenderism. Under the Trump administration, no biological males will be allowed to play on women’s teams or use women’s restrooms and showers. It is refreshing to finally see common sense returning to the federal government.
However, we must be honest with ourselves. This is a pyrrhic victory. First, the next administration could reverse that Executive Order and we would be right back where we started. More importantly, the Bostock opinion, written by Neil Gorsuch, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and the four liberal justices, presents a judicial hurdle which legislation or regulation will not overcome.
Therefore, STAND is proposing the only way to solve this issue permanently.
A Constitutional Amendment Defining Gender:
Section 1. For purposes of this Constitution, the laws of the United States and the District of Columbia, and the laws of any territory governed by the laws of the United States, all references to sex or gender shall mean, and only be defined as, a person born as a biological and genetic male or a biological and genetic female, or synonymously a man or a woman. These two categories are hereinafter to be known as natural gender and shall be the only two genders recognized in law.
Section 2. No person born with the physiology, biology, and genetics of one gender, shall have any legal claims or right to civil action or alteration of a birth certificate arising from the choice to identify as another gender, or the claim to be non-binary or gender fluid. Nor shall any biological and genetic male or female have any legal claims as a different gender based upon hormone treatments or surgery in an attempt to identify or live as a different gender.
Section 3. Nor shall the governments of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any states and territories of the United States recognize for purposes of legal or Constitutional rights, any attempted alteration of an American citizen’s natural gender or claim of a new gender identity. All governments of the United States shall be barred from issuing new passports, drivers licenses, identity cards of any kind, or birth certificates based solely on claims of a new gender identity.
Section 4. No citizen of the United States nor any foreigner shall have any legal claim or cause of action in any Court of the United States based on a new gender identity issued or facilitated by any foreign government.
America is a “live-and-let-live” society. With the exception of protecting innocent unborn human life, we have no interest in dictating other people’s choices, no matter how much we might disagree. What we are against is people forcing the rest of us to bow or be punished for disagreeing. We should never be forced to violate our conscience.
This amendment would not prevent adult men or women from dressing however they wish or identifying as whatever they wish. It wouldn’t prevent them from voluntarily submitting themselves to chemical alteration or monstrous physical mutilation to satisfy their psychological or emotional longing.
What this Amendment does is remove the legal right to force others to bow to their preferences. No employer would be forced to accept the disruption of a man who suddenly wants to present as a woman at work.
No parents would be forced to allow teachers to indoctrinate their children, inject them with hormones, and hide their grooming behavior from parents. No one could be legally forced to use specific pronouns to accommodate gender confused persons. Freedom of conscience is the soul of liberty.
This will send a clear message to the Supreme Court that if they don’t clean up this mess, the people will. We need your help to move this Constitutional Amendment forward.
First, please sign the petition supporting this Amendment.
Second, make the most generous contribution you can to the effort.
