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In contrast, 36 percent said local governments should set bathroom policies governing youths who say they want to live as members of the opposite sex. Another 28 percent of respondents said state government should set the rules for transgender disputes, according to the poll.

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That adds up to 64 percent opposition and only 28 percent support for federal rule.

The two-to-one opposition is bad news for progressives, who are currently campaigning for federal politicians and federal judges to impose a national policy that would allow people to change their legal sex by simply declaring they have the gender identity of an opposite-sex person.

This week, President Donald Trump announced he is discarding Obamas May 2016 national K-12 pro-transgender policy and is delegating the issue to state and local governments. However, his administration has not announced whether it opposes the gay groups demand that gender identity should determine a persons legal sex.

The new Rasmussen poll also shows that only 38 percent of respondents favor allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms of the opposite biological sex. That policy was opposed by 49 percent of Americans, including 64 percent of Republicans, 36 percent of Democrats and 49 percent of adults who say they are neither Democratic nor Republican. The Feb. 22 to 23 poll included 1,000 adults.

The public opposition to the transgender identity-before-biology ideology increases when the questions are asked about younger schoolkids. For example, an April poll by Civitas showed that only 7 percent of 600 North Carolinians strongly supported a judges demand ordering girls and boys in public middle schools to share locker rooms, bathroom, and shower facilities. The demand was strongly opposed by 72 percent of respondents.

The new poll by Rasmussen only asked about bathrooms, and so doesnt reveal political support for the underlying political demand by gay groups that a persons gender identity, not their biological sex, should determine whether they are male or female. In March, the Supreme Cour this expected to hear a case in which gay advocates want the judges to redefine the meaning of sex in a 1972 sexual discrimination law from biological sex to gender identity.

Thats a revolutionary demand, because if individuals can freely flip their sex from male to female or vice versa, then the nations many single-sex institutions will face enormous legal pressure to admit people of the opposite biological sex. For example, shelters for battered women may be forced to open their doors to men who claim battery, womens sports leagues will be forced to admitbigger and stronger men who claim to be women, and schoolbooks and parenting guides used by government grantees would be forced to define women merely as people who say they are women, effectively discarding the nations cultural history of women, girls and feminists.

Already, the Boy Scouts of America have decided to admit girls who want to live as boys, and have also begun changing their language to downplay their prior focus on the needs of young boys. Similarly, sports leagues for women have been forced to admit biological males and also to admit girls who are taking muscle-boosting male testosterone hormones.

Also, the progressive trend is forcing progressives to rebuke ordinary Americans who dont want men walking into the public bathrooms used by their young children. That politically questionable stance was highlighted by CNN anchorChris Cuomo, who entangled himself in a Twitter fight when he suggested that a father was being intolerant for saying he doesnt want his 12 year-old-daughter to share a public toilet with men who are trying to live as women.

Cuomo retreated from the fight by claiming that a court would decide if the gender-before-sex law would create safety problem by allowing sexual predators into bathrooms. But he ignored the larger issue that womens bathrooms and locker roomsand sports leagues would also become open to men who say they are women if fixed biology is deemed less important than changeable gender identity.

Arecent pollby a pro-transgender group at UCLA showed that only 23 percent of Americans think people should be allowed to switch their legal sex without any tests or approval by government agencies.

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PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. - A group of Putnam County residents gathered earlier this week at the Mahopac Library to voice what seems to be a growing, common concern: the current political policies and climate in Washington, and its fallout on the rest of the country.

The group, which have named themselves the Putnam Progressives, started small - meeting with a group of about 10 in January.

After that, the decision was made to reach out to the community, to gauge general response.

"We decided to reach out to the community to see if there was a response," group member Baila Lemonik of Mahopac told Daily Voice.

Lemonik said the group expected 20 or so to come for the February meeting. Closer to 100 showed up.

Lemonick said the group is concerned about protecting the democratic values of people in the community and the country.

"So people can feel safe and taken care of - health care-wise, housing-wise," Lemonik said. "We want to keep people safe, healthy and living in a democratic society."

Lemonik said Sunday's meeting had representatives from every town in Putnam.

"The energy was incredible," she said. "The dynamic was powerful, wonderful... people were relieved that they're not alone in their fear for safety, health care... so many issues.

"We want people to know there's no reason for fear," she added. "Hope comes in numbers. All over the country, people are fighting about homophobia, bigotry, racism... we hope for this to be a catalyst for change.

Lemonik said the group is about supporting each other, but more importantly about action.

"Supporting each other is a nice side benefit," she said, "but we want to be about actions - voting drives, speaking to legislators, going to marches, to community events at town halls. Keeping immigrants safe, fighting for women's rights. Those are all at the forefront."

The group is currently looking for a place to hold its next meeting, tentatively set for March 26. Anyone interested in the Putnam Progressives or in attending their next meeting can check out their Facebook page by clicking here . Lemonik said a website will be up shortly.

"The message is that there are people in the area who are also unhappy with the way things are going in Washington," she said. "Change has to happen so people can feel safe."

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Members of Congress returned to their districts this week for Congressional recess met by hordes of angry constituents. Of Oberlins three representatives, only Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown made it through the week relatively unscathed. Protesters accosted 4th District Representative Jim Jordan at a public event in Marion, Ohio, Monday, turning a routine appearance into an impromptu town hall. More Ohioans lined the streets outside a private Republican fundraiser featuring Senator Rob Portman as a keynote speaker Wednesday night in Fremont, Ohio. Yesterday, hundreds of constituents in Cleveland held a mock town hall in Portmans name, since he failed to schedule one for the week.

These actions are one prong of local activism that has been newly invigorated in the month since President Donald Trumps inauguration. Progressives who feel that they have no voice in Congress are doing all they can to shift their elected officials even slightly to the left, particularly on key issues like the Affordable Care Act and Trumps cabinet nominees. These local actions aimed at producing change at the federal level have proven effective, as evident in the slow and contentious confirmation process, during which several Republican senators broke party lines after getting hammered by constituents.

While local organizing to shift national politics has dominated the news this week, we cannot lose sight of the potentially more important form of activism: local actions to produce local effects. Human rights issues are determined at local levels just as much as they are in Washington. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, Where after all do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person.

It is in the districts themselves that true progressive action can occur during Trumps tenure, not in D.C., where Democrats lack agenda-setting power and are desperately clinging to existing legislation like the ACA. Trumps new executive order that transgender students must use the bathroom matching their assigned sex, for example, will be rendered largely irrelevant if school boards install single-use stalls instead. Similarly, Oberlin City Council is attempting to protect immigrants from deportation raids by reinforcing its resolution to make Oberlin a sanctuary city, vowing not to request residents immigration statuses. In op-eds this week, Jackie Brant explains different methods cities can use to protect immigrants and Johan Cavert suggests modes of grassroots environmental activism, since the Environmental Protection Agency may soon be gutted with Scott Pruitt at its helm. All of these are critical social justice issues and cannot be overlooked with all eyes on the Capitol and White House.

Those opposed to the Trump agenda also cannot afford to ignore local elections. Over the past 10 years, the Democratic Party and the left more broadly have failed to run candidates in many state legislative seats, giving Republicans free reign in state capitals across the country. While Republicans undermine voting rights and leverage gerrymandering in their favor, Democrats have been slow to the game. However, its encouraging that President Obama and Vice President Biden have both turned to organizing around local elections in recent weeks.

From protecting the right to choose to labor laws to energy policy, what happens in state government matters. Progressives must not become so distracted by the ghastly circus in the White House that they forget to focus on where they can make the most impact the places they live. This dismal state of affairs cannot stand.

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In Final Pitches for Ellison, Progressives Say He's Exactly What Dems Need Now Common Dreams With just hours left before the 447 voting members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) choose their next chair, leaders of progressive groups are making their final case for "the candidate who has most consistently been in the trenches with the ... Progressives Need A New Party, Not A New DNC ChairHuffington Post New Democrats Seek to Block Rise of Progressives to DNC LeadershipThe Real News Network Prepare for the Centrist Gambit at the DNC Race: "If You're Progressive, You're Supporting Trump"Paste Magazine New Republic -The Hill (blog) -The Hill all 729 news articles »

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Pussyhats are pink, knitted, cat-ear headgear, and their manufacture and distribution are being undertaken by thePussyhat Project, one of the partners listed on the website of the Womans March scheduled for January 21, 2017.

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As the Pussyhat Projects flier helpfully points out:

We love the clever wordplay of pussyhat and pussycat, but yes, pussy is also a derogatory term for female genitalia. We choose this loaded word for our project because we want to reclaim the term as a means of empowerment.

The group goes on to point out their view that identifying people with female genitalia as females is considered a form of oppression, saying that in this day and age, if we have pussies we are assigned the gender of woman. Women, whether transgender or cisgender, are mistreated in society.

For those not keeping up with the latest leftist terminology, cisgender is defined as a term for people who have a gender identity that matches the sex that they were assigned at birth.

As Breitbart News reported,the Planned Parenthood promoted protest is an anti-Trump, pro-abortion-on-demand event that organizers say will defend the most marginalized among us. The event doesnt define unborn babies as among the most marginalized among us but it will include marchers wearing Pussyhats.

The stated purpose of the Pussyhat Project is to give marchers a means to make a unique collective visual statement and to provide people not attending the march a way to represent themselves and support womens right.

For the DIYers out there, thePussycat Project websiteprovides instructions on how to create and register hats as well as how to get hats to marchers.

A map on the website shows where industrious progressives are making their Pussyhats around the word. Most Pussyhat makers are in large American cities and coastal area.

The Womans March will include celebrity guests such as Cher, Katy Perry, and Michael Moore, but at press time it was not known if any of them planned to wear Pussyhats.

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