By Eric Metaxas
5
Things
You Can Do About
TRANSGENDER RESTROOMS
The government’s staggering overreach this year smacks more
of colonial tyranny than anything I can remember.
Parents are rightly outraged, but what can we do?
M
Y BREAKPOINT COLLEAGUE, John Stones-
treet, and I are both dads. In fact, we are both dads
of daughters. Thus, the bathroom edict from the Obama
Administration hit particularly close to home, since it is
girls like our daughters that are the most vulnerable.
But what can we do? As we like to say at the Colson
Center, outrage is not a strategy. So I’d like to propose
five things.
First, as John has said, we have to understand the issue.
This is a biggie, folks, on a number of levels: government
overreach and ideological extortion, denial of biological
realities, equivocation with civil rights, and on and on.
At BreakPoint.org, we’ve compiled the best resources
we could find to explain the gravity of this staggering
exercise in government tyranny.
Second, we have to speak out. As American citizens,
we should contact our state leaders and encourage them
not to allow this blatant violation of state sovereignty—
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which it is—to go unchecked. As parents, we should
contact our school boards and principals, and demand
to know how they plan to protect all the children in the
school in light of this edict.
Third, it’s time to talk to your children about the
transgender issues. Yes, it’s uncomfortable. And none
of us thought we’d have to add this to our plan in rais-
ing our children, but at times, our culture leaves us no
choice. We all need to have “the talk” with our children,
and today “the talk” includes not only the birds and the
bees, but also gender, identity, marriage, and how to
hold convictions about these things with courage, grace,
and truth.
If you don’t talk to your children about these things,
someone else—the media, the schools, the government,
their peers—will.
And there’s a lot to cover. Happily, there’s a new
resource hot off the press, and it couldn’t be more timely.