Is transgenderism a real thing or just a mental illness? I don't know. Nobody actually knows because there is currently no proof one way or the other. I suspect that like most things in nature there probably are people for whom something went wrong at some point, but that is irrelevant when it come to who goes into which restroom, shower or changing room. To her credit, Ms. Quintrall was able to admit her wrong. When faced with the results of her politically correct support for letting self-described "transgender" men into the ladies room, she realized that law must depend on more than simply the honor system.
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There are some truths about this transsexual/transgender issue:

1. Most of us feel great sympathy for someone a person who spends his/her entire life feeling like they were born the wrong sex.
2. Transsexuals are a TINY group.
   
3. This whole debate would have been dismissed as radical and outside the realm of common sense just 10 years ago. The only thing that's changed is the politics and messaging; it's been embraced by the extremist Democratic Party as part of the strategy for changing our culture.
4. The idea that simply claiming to be a transsexual is proof of the condition is asinine. Actually have the surgery and it's a whole different game.
   
5. Most of us aren't worried about a transsexual molesting women or girls in the female shower, changing room or restroom, we're worried about the criminals who would take advantage of stupid laws with no objectivity (see #3, above).
   
6. Opposition to the Charlotte "bathroom bill" has nothing to do with one's view of homosexuality. Homosexuality and transgenderism are entirely different things. The Left has always asserted such and it is a completely rational premise. Therefore, the only reason the two are linked (ex., "LGBT") is to boost political power.

The radical, former ACLU pleader, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, acknowledged all this (one way or the other), and that is the point of the Daily Haymaker article.

Clip the testicals off a power, male horse that competes fiercely with other horses and you have a horse with no drive to compete at all. ​The story on PJ Media, reports that a petition on Change.org, asked "What message does this send to our daughters and granddaughters? Our sons and grandsons?" We suspect the message at Frederick Douglass High used to be "Win!" Now is seems more likely that it is "Have fun but don't offend!"

That is the really issue, isn't it? There can and will always be someone offended by virtually everthing. So if "offensiveness" is the standard, then arbiters are required; someone to rule for the crass masses what is acceptable and what is not. Invariably, only that approved by the Left is correct, and that is soul of the plan of PC: Shut down and silence anything that does not conform to the "top-down, iron-fisted" rule of the Left.

The President just advocated abolishing the Electoral College (as have Dr. Carson and others from both parties). Why did the Framers put it in the Constitution? For the same reason they created a republic, not a democracy. They knew democracies fail because the Majority* inevitably votes away the rights of of the Minority.* That leads to persecution, "balkanization" and ultimately to national collapse. The Framers created a republic that protects the Minority from the tyranny of "majority rule."

*these groups change over time (blacks, Christians, gun owners, gays, Jews, etc.)