Transgender Loving Obama Punishes American Business

Barack Obama's radical transgender push continues unabated. What now? He's suing an American business that decided to treat a man like a man:

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued a private business for sex discrimination and harassment after a male employee — who announced he was switching genders to become a woman — was barred from using the women’s restroom and was referred to with male pronouns by his coworkers.

Deluxe Financial Services, a Minnesota-based company that helps small businesses with marketing, denied that it violated any anti-discrimination laws but agreed to settle the case for $115,000 in order to avoid further costs of litigation, according to the settlement agreement.

The male employee, who now goes by the name Britney Austin, publicly presented himself as male when he was hired by Deluxe Financial but later opted to begin identifying as a woman.

This is nothing short of total lunacy. To be clear: the Obama Administration is prosecuting a business for refusing to indulge the sad delusions of a seriously mentally ill person. In the face of biological evidence that their employee is a man, they're being penalized for a failure to pretend otherwise. As National Review's David French notes, this latest PC quest could have disastrous consequences for the people it intends to help:

The evidence of transgender despair is overwhelming. A Swedish study found that trans people were 19 times more likely to die from suicide. An American study found that a horrifying 41 percent of transgender and “gender non-conforming” people had attempted suicide, compared with a national rate of 1.6 percent. In Canada, a study found that each year one in nine transgender people try to commit suicide, compared with the national rate of one out of 167.

Against this backdrop, the Left is remarkably callous. Large numbers of young people who experience gender dysphoria eventually desist. Yet social-justice warriors browbeat parents and mental-health professionals into believing that gender dysphoria is fixed and immutable; even though this creed often results in harmful medical treatments that can culminate in mutilating surgery. Is it any wonder that transgender men and women are often so wracked with anguish?

Make no mistake: the Obama Administration's radical war on biology, logic, and rationality isn't just bad for American business, it's bad for the very people it purports to help.

Source: AAN