Day: September 7, 2016

Recently passed legislation in Massachusetts will force women’s locker rooms in health clubs and public swimming pools to accept biological males who claim to identify as women, and churches can also be forced to do the same if they host “secular” events.

Following are points from a Daily Caller article: 

— Guidelines for the legislation state that starting October 1, “All persons, regardless of gender identity, shall have the right to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any place of public accommodation.”

— Any place that is open to the public must follow the guidelines or face up to one year in jail.  “Any place of public accommodation that lawfully separates access to a place or portion thereof based on a person’s sex, shall grant admission to that place, and the full enjoyment of that place or portion thereof, consistent with the person’s gender identity.”  This includes health club and public swimming pool locker rooms.

— The guidelines state, “Even a church could be seen as a place of public accommodation if it holds a secular event, such as a spaghetti supper, that is open to the general public.”

— The legislation also imposes strict standards on employers, requiring them to address employees by their preferred name and pronouns and let them use whatever bathroom that most closely aligns with their “gender identity,” regardless of their biological sex.

— Following is how Massachusetts law defines “gender identity”:

A person’s gender-related identity, appearance or behavior, whether or not that gender-related identity, appearance or behavior is different from that traditionally associated with the person’s physiology or assigned sex at birth. …

The statutory definition of gender identity does not require the individual to have gender affirming surgery or intend to undergo surgery, nor does it require evidence of past medical care or treatment. …

In most situations arising in employment, housing, mortgage services and places of public accommodation, it will not be appropriate to request documentation of an individual’s gender identity.  …

In the limited circumstances where it is necessary, an individual’s gender identity may be demonstrated by any evidence that the gender identity is sincerely held as a part of the person’s core identity.

The following information is summarized from this Breitbart article: 

Five women in Hildesheim, Germany were attacked and sexually assaulted by three asylum seekers who were staying at a hotel that was turned into asylum accommodation.

The victims, who were between 18 and 21 years old, were walking down the street in the early morning hours of Saturday when they were approached and cornered by the men who tried to kiss, grope, and have sex with them.

When the women resisted the migrants, the men became irate and followed the women and then began groping them and hitting them in the face, and one also kicked a woman in the stomach.

After the beating the men once again tried to engage the women while threatening to smash glass bottles over their heads.

Three men passing in the street noticed the attack and called the police before confronting the migrants who then attacked the men.

Police arrested two of the three migrants, a 16 year old Afghani and a 17 year old Iranian.

Following is a summary of a story from TheLocal.at:

Police in the town of Wels, Austria have detained five asylum seekers from Afghanistan for sexually harassing woman during a wine and beer festival over the weekend.  Eight women as young as 15 have made official complaints to the police, saying they were grabbed and groped by the men including between the legs.

A 40 year old man broke in a home in Winterhaven, Florida and was shot and killed by three members of the family living in the house.

The mother, father, and adult son of the family woke up to sound of someone trying to break into their home.  One of them fired a warning shot as the stranger broke in through a back door, which didn’t deter him, and as he made it to the kitchen all three family members opened fire on him, killing him.  The intruder was not armed but the family had the right to shoot him, the chief of police said.