OBAMA'S GENDER POLICY ON THE USE OF SCHOOL BATHROOMS and LOCKERROOMS BY TRANS-GENDER STUDENTS.

Wars are sometimes given strange or different names. Remember the "potato war" (Saxon/Prussian versus Austria in 1778) about the Bavarian succession?
The American Civil War was (and often still is) known in the South as the "war between the states".  The term "war" has invaded all areas and the latest neologism,"the bathroom war", is another American addition which is becoming, yet again,  an argument which opposes liberals and conservatives.

The President has announced a policy that allows students to use the bathroom which matches their gender identity.  Ted Cruz is already painting a future wherein the freedom of choice for trans-genders opens the gates for sexual deviants, voyeurs and boys who will invade girls' locker rooms, like locusts in some biblical remake.

It has been noticed historically that the most strident prayer doomsday enthusiasts are often the most dedicated shoppers at porn.com or the most dedicated providers of "escorts" revenue.

In the current state of electoral fever, common sense and respect for individual diversity are taken hostage by this conservative fringe, mostly in the South and middle America, where Bible class still rules and where the closets are packed.
The arguments in conservative circles remind one of the venom which "infects" any conversation about the Second Amendment or reproductive rights. The attacks are dishonest and increasingly ugly, fed by the bygone culture wars which sweep the plains.
 
The President was right to come out in favor of transgender students but he might have considered a six-month moratorium to allow the vitriol to cool off. I can understand uneasy feelings but I have no sympathy for the usual right wing obstructionism. The de jure  Republican Party has been taken over by a de facto fascist mindset. This form of isolationism is also leading to an isolationism in foreign policy. Paradoxically, this Western ersatz of Wahhabism obeys to a similar form of intolerance and fear, and suffers from a structural inferiority complex.   In the end, the conservatives follow the wrong piper, who will betray their small mind interests at the first occasion.  American fault-lines run so deep now that, in the short term, recovery appears out of reach.