Transgenders Coming In

    I have often railed against federal government regulations. They now number over 170,000 pages governing, it seems, every aspect of our lives. These regulations are so intrusive and suffocating that some, like Charles Murray (By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission), have gone so far as to suggest that it is time for systematic civil disobedience of stupid and pointless regulations. Here's a prime example.

    The Obama Department of Education recently ordered a school district in Illinois to allow a transgender boy full access to the girls' locker room. Now the school had already agreed to let the boy use the girls' facilities, provided he is shielded from view while undressing. But that wasn't good enough for federal regulators. According to the Department of Education's Civil Rights Division, any boy who wants to be a girl has the right to undress in full view of girls in their locker room. If the school refuses to comply with the department's directive within 30 days, it will lose federal funding.

    Is this not the ultimate in regulatory nonsense? If there ever was a time for civil disobedience, this is it. I think every school district in the nation should announce that it will not comply with this ridiculous order.

    Before Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education in 1979, the federal government played no role whatsoever in K-12 education. Now it has over 5,000 employees and an annual budget of over $70 billion.

    The federal government should have absolutely nothing to do with K-12 education. Control at that level belongs with people who know what's best for our kids: parents, teachers, and school administrators. Federal regulators should keep their noses out of our schools (and girls' locker rooms), and the Department of Education should be abolished.