A few days ago the Texas legislature, after many failed attempts, passed a bathroom bill. It effectively blocks male transgenders from accessing female private spaces. There appears to no corporate kickback or public shaming. What a change from 2016, when North Carolina passed similar legslation.

When North Carolina passed a so-called “bathroom bill” in 2016, the LGBT community and its allies exploded with rage.  They were determined to punish North Carolina for its temerity, and full-scale war was launched against the government and people of the Tar Heel state.  The poor citizens of North Carolina never knew what hit them.  All sorts of political and economic pressure was exerted.  The liberal elite virtually declared North Carolina to be a social pariah, and not a day passed without some politician, business entity, sports figure, or entertainment celebrity slamming the state and proposing some sort of retributive action. 

Commentators supporting the LGBT position made absurd arguments. One person wrote to suggest that everyone carry their birth certificate when travelling through North Carolina.  Another writer posited the hypothetical case of a poor transgender person, bearded but self-identifying as a female, who is forced to use a bathroom not of his/her choice.  The same writer ridiculed an opponent’s apparently sincere concern over the possibility of a male voyeur using the transgender cover to invade female bathrooms and showers.

North Carolina was increasingly buffeted by economic boycotts, job losses and public criticism. Sports leagues relocated games, companies canceled expansions, and some tourists decided to spend their money elsewhere.  Fiscal losses to the state were calculated to be more than 3.7 billion dollars and rising. Even basically conservative North Carolinians began to change their minds.  Was the fight worth it?  In November 2016 a Democrat was elected governor in place of the otherwise popular and moderate Republican who had signed the “bathroom bill”.  Two months after the new governor took office, the bill was repealed.

Public attitudes regarding the transgender movement have undergone a gradual change in the last ten years. Most informed citizens now recognize the transgender pushers as the radical anti-Christian, anti-female social disrupters they have proven themselves to be..