A 5-Year Old Girl Is Sexually Assaulted, so Where Are Her Defenders on the Left?

They’re after our children.

So two years ago, North Carolina fought the Great Bathroom War of 2016.

The war began when the liberal Charlotte City Council decided to pass a social justice ordinance that would have thrown open the bathrooms and locker rooms in public facilities to allow for “transgendered” individuals to pick and choose where they wanted to go.

The ordinance was broadly worded, requiring no proof of transgender status, and would allow for many uncomfortable and potentially unsafe situations for families and children.

The ordinance was set to take effect on April 1, 2016 (April Fool’s Day… coincidence?). On March 23, the North Carolina General Assembly held an emergency session to vote on the validity of the ordinance, as it pertained to the state, on the whole.

Several points were at issue.

For one, the aforementioned safety issue surrounding making public bathrooms in restaurants, rest stops and schools free-for-alls in the sexual revolution.

The other issue was the idea that a city could make such a sweeping change without consulting the state.

I mean, this wasn’t deciding to build a new city hall or where to put up a new stop light.

This was a city telling businesses and schools to risk the safety and comfort of their patrons and students, based on a feel-good, left wing fantasy narrative.

The majority Republican general assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of shutting down the ill-advised Charlotte ordinance, and enacted the bathroom bill that was quickly signed into law by Governor McCrory.

And that’s when the fighting started.

Now, I’ve written on this topic often. I covered the entire fight from the beginning until the bittersweet end.

After boycotts and back and forth bickering between President Obama’s administration and Pat McCrory standing firm as a hero for families in the state, staring down threatened lawsuits by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the 2016 election saw McCrory ousted – not by Democrats, but miffed Republicans in Mecklenburg and New Hanover County. The reasons had nothing to do with the bathroom battle, as each county had an axe to grind (a toll road and a cut to movie industry incentives, respectively).

In January 2017, with the Republican majority still in the general assembly and a deal on the table for Charlotte and the new governor, Roy Cooper, the decision was made to kill the bathroom bill, with the provision that things went back to the way they were before.

And so it was. Everything was reset. Men’s rooms were for actual men, and Women’s rooms were for actual women.

We lost the best governor the state has had in many decades, but the balance of what is natural and right was restored.

I tell that story again, because I’ve had so many since that time rage against my position on this. At the time the bathroom battle was going on, one of the compromises the McCrory administration offered was single-occupancy, gender-neutral bathrooms for those struggling with gender dysphoria.

The activists did not want compromise. They wanted compliance, no matter how it made others feel.

One wicked editor for The Charlotte Observer wrote in an op-ed, comparing the bathroom battles to the civil rights movement, saying that just as white citizens had to get used to seeing African-Americans at their lunch counters, so would little girls have to get used to seeing penises in their bathrooms.

It wasn’t written as a joke, folks.

And with that, we come to the heartbreaking tale of Pascha Thomas, a Georgia mother, and her 5 year old daughter.

Thomas’ daughter attends school in the Decatur area.

In 2016, the school system in Decatur decided the parents had no right to presumed safety for their children in the bathrooms of their schools, nor did they have the right to know about changes.

They implemented an open doors, anything-goes policy for the locker rooms and bathrooms in all the schools, to allow for students to dabble with their gender identity, by using the bathrooms or locker rooms of their choosing, based on their feelings (not the science of biology).

Superintendent David Dude revealed to staff at the time that they were implementing “a policy that required all Decatur Schools to admit boys who identify as female into girls’ restrooms, locker rooms, and shower areas on school premises … based solely on the stated preference of the individual student. …”

The nonprofit legal firm, Alliance Defending Freedom, has taken up the case, on behalf of Thomas and her daughter.

So what happened?

In a video testimony, Thomas describes a sexual assault against her 5 year old daughter, committed on school grounds by a boy who took advantage of the open doors bathroom policy.

“My daughter stated to me that she was in class, and she asked the teacher if she could go to the bathroom. And the teacher said yes,” Thomas described.

“So she was in the bathroom and she was pulling up her pants, when one of her classmates came into her bathroom, a little boy. She tried to leave the bathroom, [but] the little boy pushed her against the bathroom stall. Basically pinned her up against there. She asked him to stop, he wouldn’t. He took his fingers and he was penetrating her through her pants. She asked him to stop, and stated several times that it hurt. He refused,” the mother continued.

“Once he was done, she went to class. I asked her if she told anyone about it. She started crying and said ‘No mama, I didn’t tell nobody, but I didn’t ask him to come in the bathroom with me. I didn’t know he was going to do that.'”

Believe victims, right?

Sadly, Thomas has said the school has blown off her complaints. In fact, they’ve told her the policy would not be changed, and even sent the Department of Family and Children’s Services out to investigate her family, as if she did something wrong.

Victimize the victim.

As someone who has worked with Family Services as a Guardian Ad Litem volunteer, I’m curious as to if the boy’s family was investigated, as well. If he was a classmate of the 5 year old, exhibiting that kind of sexually aggressive behavior at that age, as alleged, it would indicate some sort of inappropriate conduct in the home.

Meanwhile, a mother has to try and make sense of this for her young daughter.

“What happened to her, I felt devastated, I felt angry. I felt betrayed,” Thomas said about her daughter in the video.

“When I dropped my child off at school, I never would think that she would be sexually assaulted in a bathroom by a little boy.”

It’s the risk liberals and social justice warriors are willing to take with our children.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is looking into the case, on behalf of the little girl.

“This situation was both deeply tragic and avoidable,” said ADF Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb.

“Schools have a duty to protect the privacy and safety of all students and Decatur Schools clearly failed this young girl. The current approach that many schools are taking of passing these transgender bathroom policies isn’t working; they fail to provide basic privacy or ensure the safety of all students.”

Because for the left, only the fringe matters.

Vernadette Broyles, an attorney with the Georgia Adoption & Family Law Practice, joined with the ADF in filing the complaint against the Decatur school system.

“Decatur School’s policies have created a stressful, unfair, and, as in this case, even unsafe environment — particularly for girls. We are grateful that OCR is investigating this tragedy, and we hope the agency helps this school district and others adopt commonsense solutions that protect the privacy and safety of all students,” Broyles said.

The school district has responded through a spokeswoman, calling the allegations “unfounded” and pushing back hard against this 5 year old child’s trauma, saying they fully disagree with the characterization of the matter.

So I say this, if you championed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s claims about Brett Kavanaugh, and you were part of that barking mad liberal mob, but you do not stand up for this little girl now and you’re not willing to consider that allowing unchecked access by boys to the girls locker rooms and bathrooms is a danger, then you are equally guilty of every sexual assault of every little girl that may result because of these policies.

Is that an extreme position?

Under the circumstances, and considering what the past couple of weeks have shown us, not only is it not extreme, but it is a challenge put forth for every feminist howler.

Do you believe the victims, or is your outrage situational?

Sure, it was safe to stand on the left and scream at a SCOTUS nominee, nominated by a Republican president, but what if it turns out the left’s own cherished social justice policies are putting women and girls in jeopardy?

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