Letter: What about the civil rights of all the other students?

Through another of his myriad over-reaching proclamations, President Obama is forcing schools to designate bathrooms and showers as gender-neutral facilities, claiming failure to do so violates the civil rights of the LGBT community, which comprises 3.8 percent of the population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and the Williams Institute among others. He threatens to withhold federal school funding for failure to comply.

What about the civil rights of all the other students?

It is my opinion that this federally-imposed insanity is actually another covert progressive step toward the moral debasement of this country and the deterioration of the family, using LGBT demands as justification.

Young girls and boys struggle enough with self-esteem and physical image (particularly when peer pressure through social media is relentless) without infringing on their privacy, particularly in the showers by commingling the sexes because a few individuals identify with the opposite gender.

True transgender issues should be addressed, but this dilemma is too complicated and important to be solved in a one-day decree without considering the rights of all. Obama does the LGBT community no favors by forcing this upon the public at-large.

Similar guidelines passed in Charlotte, N.C., regarding public restrooms can be a pedophile’s dream by increasing opportunities for these sexual predators. Kudos to Texas and North Carolina for legally pushing back against another Obama agenda-driven proclamation that is not the law.

This story was originally published May 30, 2016 at 7:39 AM with the headline "Letter: What about the civil rights of all the other students?."