LETTER: PC run amok in Anchorage Prop 1 rejection

To the editor:

In another example of irrational and regressive "political correctness" run amok, voters in Anchorage actually voted against a commonsense measure that would have required people to use public bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender at birth. It helped that liberal, pro-LGBT extremists outspent decent, moral, pro-family people by a 6 to 1 ratio.

You have to wonder what kind of people would vote against such a commonsense measure, considering that it's fairly obvious that female minds in male bodies and male minds in female bodies and homosexual minds in heterosexual bodies are sure signs that something went wrong somewhere (in nature and/or nurture), are sure signs of mind/body mismatches or disorders. So, to put transgenders and heterophobic homosexuals on the same level as normal heterosexuals is absurd. No rational person can deny that.

This was the commonsense position of the American Psychiatric Association for years before it became corrupted by irrational, ever-so-trendy "political correctness."

And what is the rational thing to do with physical and psychological disorders? We try to fix them, if possible. But even if we can't fix certain disorders (e.g., we may not have enough knowledge yet), rational people do not deny reality and maintain they are NOT disorders, which is exactly what pro-homosexual and pro-transgender people are doing.

Should we build extra-large restrooms for claustrophobics who have panic attacks in normal-sized restrooms? Should we build separate restrooms for convicted pedophiles because we don't want them in restrooms with our children? (Or, to be a little facetious, should we build separate restrooms for so-called "homophobes" who don't want to use restrooms homosexuals may use?)

Let's face it, unfortunately some people have disorders. It's unreasonable to build special restrooms for them. It's unreasonable to let them use "wrong gender" restrooms. And we shouldn't "de-gender" restrooms for them. It's also unreasonable to concoct special pronouns for them.

— Wayne Lela,

Downers Grove, IL