FRC’s Peter Sprigg (left) and Craig James
Members of the Family Research Council, the conservative Christian group and lobbying organization, have called for an amendment to the Constitution that would forbid the federal government to legally recognize anyone’s gender if it was not consistent with what the person was assigned at birth. Right Wing Watch caught the discussion between FRC spokesmen Peter Sprigg and Craig James on FRC’s radio show Washington Watch With Tony Perkins yesterday. The panelists lamented recent gains in transgender equality, including July guidelines from the Department of Labor that confirmed federal prohibitions on sex-based discrimination extend to transgender people, in accordance with a 2012 ruling from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Sprigg admitted that right-wing activists — who he calls “we in the pro-family movement” — “have not been as prepared” to degrade efforts to protect rights based on gender identity as those activists have been in mobilizing against the “homosexual movement.” Asked James;
“Might Congress — might there be a need for us to have a constitutional movement, an amendment, to identify a person’s sex: It is what you are at birth?”
Agreeing, Sprigg went on to speculate;
“I think the ideal policy for government with respect to [trans rights] is that your sex is your biological sex. My view is, that if your biological sex is unambiguous at birth — if your internal sex organs, your external genitalia, and your chromosomal makeup all are unequivocal in declaring you to be of one sex — then that is your sex for life, and that is your only sexual identity that the government will recognize…. they’re punishing us if we don’t accept that they want to change their assigned sex. Gender identity, that might be the flashpoint, that might be the next thing we have to combat in this war with the LGBT community and those who are challenging sexuality.”
(via The Advocate)
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