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Having come up in the Jim Crow days of segregation and second class citizenry for people of color, having experienced the cruelty and unfairness firsthand and standing eye to eye and toe to toe with the monster of racial prejudice, I felt a deep resentment for Attorney General Loretta Lynch's comments comparing the transgender bathroom boondoggle in North Carolina to the days of segregation.

Ms. Lynch was not even born when the bathroom system in my native North Carolina and other southern states did have a three-bathroom system, white ladies, white men and �colored�.

Ms. Lynch never got past her ill informed bathroom analogy to mention that every water fountain, bus station and movie theater had separate white and �colored� facilities, separate schools, back of the bus, �No service to colored� signs in restaurants and all the rest of the oppressive system that was designed to "keep blacks in their place", which was under the thumb of a white society that considered them to be inferior.

To me, there is no analogy here, just political rhetoric to try to incite a sense that transgenders are being treated unfairly because they can't walk into the bathroom or locker room of the opposite sex.

To compare this situation to Jim Crow laws, to even insinuate that there is a correlation is a stretch, even for a politician, and an insult to all the people who suffered through it.

My belief is this, if you are born a man or a woman or have been surgically altered to become the opposite of your birth sex, you use the bathroom that corresponds to your gender, if not, the one that corresponds to your plumbing.

That's as far as society should ever have to go, otherwise, why even identify bathrooms by sex, as there would be nothing that could be legally done about which facility any person of any sex went in to.

I don't know about the rest of the country but in my part of the world the first time a red-blooded redneck - and I mean �redneck� in a non-pejorative sense - sees some leering pervert follow his granddaughter into the girl's room there's going to be hell to pay and if I'm on the jury, I'm going to vote to turn him loose.

This whole thing is silly past the point of being funny.

God made man and He made woman. If somebody thinks they can do a better job of designing their body than the Creator did, they have the legal right to go for it and to use the sanitary facilities that matches their sex change.

But if you're walking around with the standard plumbing of a man, even though you think you should have been born a woman, in my opinion, you can either go to the men's room or go find a tree.

And will this practice be forced on Muslim society? Will men who think they're women be allowed to go into a facility and watch a Muslim lady lift her hijab, I seriously doubt it and I even more seriously doubt if there will be a line of transgenders out front protesting.

And where do we go from here?

Will grammar school children who have been taught modesty at home have to do unisex bathroom breaks?

Will they be forced to take sensitivity lessons so they can understand?

And what about teen age boys who think it's worth claiming to be a female for a day to get a peek inside the girl's basketball locker room?

The possibilities are limitless� and frightening.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels