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Letter: Protections would be based on mental delusions


I have read and need to comment on your editorial claiming that a bill to expand Michigan's Elliott-Larsen Act should also protect persons based on their "gender identity."

Letter to the Editor

Nothing could be more backwards, or further from the truth.

With my background as a former state judge, I have studied that issue extensively from a legal standpoint. Perhaps you are not aware of the following facts:

1. Gender identity of "transgendered" persons is based 100 percent on mental delusions, that a person believes they are of the opposite biology. A bill including gender identity would therefore not be based on evidence, facts or truth, as law should be, but for the first time would be based on delusions, that all would be legally mandated to accommodate.

2. In the couple other states and many towns that have included "gender identity," the direct consequences have been infinitely more irreparably damaging — such as in Washingon state, where a man has regularly entered a little girls' changing room after their swim class while naked, yet all officials cite that law in deciding that prosecution would violate his rights. That is just one of many examples!

3. Expansion of Elliott-Larsen without any religious conscience provision is infinitely more discriminatory than current law, as it would discriminate against constitutionally protected First Amendment rights of citizens who own businesses, which trumps discrimination based solely on immoral behavior. (The gay lobby has not been able to come up with any evidence of any "gay gene" despite spending millions).

4. Your proposal would render every restroom and locker room in Michigan completely unsafe for anyone to use, making travel away from home nearly impossible for anyone.

Those are the facts!

Tom North

St. Ignace