H.B. 12 & H.B. 15: Sex & Gender
Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, February 1, 2013 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler
Good morning, Jim. On November 28th Representative Keisha Waites pre-filed H.B. 12 to give civil rights protection based on “gender, gender identity and sexual orientation” and increase by 50 percent the penalties for crimes against anyone claiming those classifications.
Since H.B. 12 does not include definitions, let me explain that the words “sex” and “gender” are not synonyms. Their definitions are totally different. Sex denotes the anatomical identity of males and females, whether of humans, animals, marine life, reptiles, plants, insects, arachnids or other God’s creations.
Gender identity implies rejection of and deviation from anatomical identity. Gender, gender identity and sexual orientation involve alternate lifestyles that include, but are not limited to, sexual behaviors that are against Georgia law. H.B. 12 would legalize and give particular protection to voyeurism (Peeping Toms), exhibitionism (flashers), pedophilia (now being debated as good for children), necrophilia, bestiality, transvestites and transsexuals. States with laws providing civil rights status for these classifications allow anyone claiming transvestite or transgender identity to use any public rest room or public facility, including facilities in churches and religious sites, unless the law specifically exempts religious entities. Confusion would be the order-of-the-day, since a transvestite may dress as a man one day and a woman the next. The garment-of-the-day would determine which public rest room would be used, whether in a tax-funded rest room or a rest room in church.
Representative Waites also pre-filed H.B. 15 on November 28th. That bill would modify Georgia’s law against bullying that, currently, protects all students equally, without add-on penalties for bullying perceived to be based on sexual orientation. Although H.B. 15 does not mention sexual orientation, it could be amended to include special protection based on alternate lifestyles. Since the 1990s “safe School” movement, arbitrarily, included negative comments about sexual orientation in its definition of bullying, different opinions about sexual activity may be deemed to be bullying. When that happens, freedom of speech is gone.
In 2007 the “no name-calling week” middle school curriculum, promoted by the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), was extended to all K – 12 schools. Also, to be noted is the presumed connection between alternate lifestyles and bullying that is overtly obvious on the federal government’s bullying web site, which links readers to specific sexual orientation sites.
H.B 12 and H.B. 15 must be defeated. Contact numbers will be provided when available. For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol correspondent.