LGBT Exploitation of NJ's Most Vulnerable: Kids & Elderly
/By Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter, Executive Director, Help Rescue Our Children
9 Teves, '81 / Dec. 24, '20
Thank G-d, in the wake of vibrant profamily vigilance, NJ residents have been granted more time to stop two particular dangerous LGBTQ bills from becoming law, S2781 /A4454 (Education), and S2545 (Healthcare facilities). At this point, concerned citizens have at least two weeks to publicize the dangers of these bills, to ensure they are stopped before the Legislature returns from vacation.
What's important now is (1) to alert the public about what these bills actually would do, if enacted, G-d forbid, and (2) to escalate pressure on all of the legislators to oppose these bills, and anything remotely similar. We must leverage the fact that the entire Legislature is up for election in less than a year.
A.) We've already posted repeatedly about the "Education" bill* (e.g.,
{* A4454 2R: https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2020/Bills/A4500/4454_R2.HTM (Kindergarten version passed by the NJ Senate);
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2020/Bills/A4500/4454_R1.HTM}
This bill advances the inroads the LGBT lobby had previously made into public education in NJ two years ago. For example, one dangerous proposed modification to existing Education law in this "Education" bill would be to require public schools, K-12, to indoctrinate children against "unconscious bias against" LGBT. This would aim to radically transform the entire worldview of every normal child in regards to sex, family, marriage and morality.
Another change this bill would make is as follows: even school districts that until now had been able to avoid incorporating LGBT - where deemed "not appropriate" -would no longer enjoy the same latitude, under this new legislation. This bill omits "where appropriate" as a criteria for teaching LGBT.
Realize that generally legal challenges to schools will wind up before leftist leaning judges. The U.S. Supreme Court is no solace. Even the three Supreme Court picks of Mr. Trump have all demonstrated pronounced and dangerous weaknesses on LGBT issues (e.g. as in the Bostock case).
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B.) Here are extensive excerpts of the healthcare facilities bill:
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2020/Bills/S3000/2545_I1.HTM
SENATE, No. 2545:
INTRODUCED JUNE 8, 2020, Sponsored by: Senators TROY SINGLETON, District 7 (Burlington); VIN GOPAL, District 11 (Monmouth); and RICHARD J. CODEY, District 27 (Essex and Morris).
"SYNOPSIS: Establishes certain requirements concerning rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, undesignated/non-binary, questioning, queer, intersex, and HIV-positive residents of long-term care facilities."
"... An Act concerning resident rights in long-term care facilities and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes. ...
{Just reading these definitions conveys much of what this bill seeks to engrain in the popular thinking about human sexuality. NL}
1. ..."Gender expression" means a person's gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth.
"Gender identity" means a person's internal, deeply held knowledge or sense of their own gender, regardless of the sex the person was assigned at birth.
“Gender-nonconforming” means a person whose gender expression does not conform to stereotypical expectations of that person’s gender.
"Gender transition" means a process in which a person begins to live according to that person’s gender identity, rather than the sex the person was assigned at birth, which process may include changing one’s clothing, appearance, name, or identification documents, or undergoing medical treatments.
“Intersex” means a person whose sexual or reproductive anatomy or chromosomal pattern is not consistent with typical definitions of male or female.
“LGBTQI” means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, and intersex. {Notice how they intentionally include intersex people in the same category as those who willfully engage in sexual deviance prohibited by the Torah. NL}
“Long-term care facility” means a nursing home, assisted living residence, comprehensive personal care home, residential health care facility, or dementia care home licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).
“Long-term care facility staff” means all individuals employed by, or contracted directly with, a long-term care facility.
“Resident” means resident or patient of a long-term care facility.
“Queer” means a person whose gender expression, gender identity, or sexual orientation does not conform to dominant expectations or standards.
“Questioning” means a person who is exploring or unsure about the person’s own sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
“Sexual orientation” means a person’s romantic or sexual attraction to other people.
"Transgender" means a person whose gender identity or gender expression differs from the sex assigned to the person at birth.
(NOTE THIS: )
“Undesignated/non-binary” means a person whose gender identity is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to, a person whose gender identity is intersex, agender, amalgagender, androgynous, bigender, demigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, neutrois, non-binary, pangender, third sex, transgender, Two Spirit, or otherwise unspecified by the person.
2. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, a long-term care facility and long-term care facility staff shall be prohibited from taking any of the following actions based in whole or in part on a person’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status:
(1) denying admission to a long-term care facility, transferring or refusing to transfer a resident within a facility or to another facility, or discharging or evicting a resident from a facility;
(2) denying a request by residents to share a room;
(3) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (5) of subsection (e) of 42 CFR s.483.10, where rooms are assigned by gender, assigning, reassigning, or refusing to assign a room to a transgender or non-binary resident other than in accordance with the transgender or undesignated/non-binary resident’s gender identity, unless at the transgender or undesignated/non-binary resident’s request;"
{These two provisions - 2(a) 2,3 -mandate that a transgender person would be enabled to demand a roommate, and one of the opposite sex. Thereby, a male purporting to be a female could demand a female roommate. The bill would also restrict right of the roommate to object.
The next item, 2(a)4, forces the healthcare facility to allow the wrong usage of bathrooms (possibly for showers too, depending on the physical layout of the bathrooms).
Thus, it's been observed that this bill competes with other NJ legislation for the title "The Rape-Enabling Act. NL}
"(4) prohibiting a resident from using, or harassing a resident who seeks to use or does use, a restroom available to other persons of the same gender identity, regardless of whether the resident is making a gender transition, has taken or is taking hormones, has undergone gender affirmation surgery, or presents as gender-nonconforming. For the purposes of this paragraph, harassment includes, but is not limited to, requiring a resident to show identity documents in order to gain entrance to a restroom available to other persons of the same gender identity;
(5) repeatedly failing to use a resident’s chosen name or pronouns after being clearly informed of the chosen name or pronouns;
(6) denying a resident the right to wear or be dressed in clothing, accessories, or cosmetics or to engage in grooming practices that are permitted to any other resident;
(7) restricting a resident’s right to associate with other residents or with visitors, including the right to consensual sexual relations;"
{Note this provision. Essentially, the facility would be obliged to facilitate promiscuity, and the environment that it creates, disregarding the bona fide rights of other residents, staff, and visitors to a non-offensive enviroment, hospitable to minors.
In the following provision, "medical care" would obligate workers in the unpleasant task of accommodation of the deviant choices of transgender persons by cleaning out artificial anatomical structures. NL}
"(8) denying or restricting medical or nonmedical care that is appropriate to a resident’s organs and bodily needs, or providing medical or nonmedical care that, to a similarly-situated, reasonable person, unduly demeans the resident’s dignity or causes avoidable discomfort; or
(9) refuse or willfully fail to provide any service, care, or reasonable accommodation to a resident or an applicant for services or care.
b. The requirements of this act shall not apply to the extent that compliance with the requirement is incompatible with any professionally-reasonable clinical judgment.
c. Each facility shall post the following notice alongside its current nondiscrimination policy and alongside its written materials providing notice of resident rights pursuant to N.J.A.C.8:39-4.1, in all places and on all materials where that policy or those written materials are posted:
“[Name of facility] does not discriminate and does not permit discrimination, including, but not limited to, bullying, abuse, or harassment, on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status, or HIV status, or based on association with another individual on account of that individual’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status, or HIV status. You may file a complaint with the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, [provide current contact information], if you believe you have experienced this kind of discrimination.”
{This requires the facility post signage advertising their LGBT policy. Decent facility management or ownership would find this objectionable on moral and religious grounds. For one example, think about the long term impact this will have on children frequently visiting their grandparents. This alone would blunt the stigma of the sin of sodomy, branded by the Torah as an abomination (Lev.18:22, 20:13). NL}
3. Each long-term care facility shall ensure that resident records, including records generated at the time of admission, include the resident’s gender identity and the resident’s chosen name and pronouns, as indicated by the resident.
4. a. Unless required by State or federal law, a long-term care facility shall not disclose any personal identifying information regarding: (1) a resident’s sexual orientation; (2) whether a resident is transgender or undesignated/non-binary; (3) a resident’s gender transition status; (4) a resident’s intersex status; or (5) a resident’s HIV status.
The facility shall take appropriate steps to minimize the likelihood of inadvertent or accidental disclosure of such information to other residents, visitors, or facility staff, except to the minimum extent necessary for facility staff to perform their duties.
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d. Transgender residents shall be provided access to such transition-related assessments, therapy, and treatments as have been recommended by the resident’s health care provider, including, but not limited to, transgender-related medical care, including hormone therapy and supportive counseling.
5. A long-term care facility that violates the requirements of this act, or that employs a staff member who violates the requirements of this act, shall be subject to civil penalties or other administrative action as may be provided under Department of Health regulations. Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit the ability to bring any civil, criminal, or administrative action for conduct constituting a violation of any other provision of law."
{Here, 6.a. requires that the facility itself facilitate LGBT propaganda. NL}
" 6. a. Each long-term care facility shall ensure that the administrators and staff at the long-term care facility receive training, on at least a biennial basis, concerning:
(1) caring for LGBTQI seniors and seniors living with HIV; and
(2) preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, intersex status, and HIV status.
b. At a minimum, the training required pursuant to this section shall include:
(1) the definition of the terms commonly associated with sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, intersex status, and HIV;
(2) best practices for communicating with or about LGBTQI seniors and seniors living with HIV, including the use of a resident’s chosen name and pronouns;
(3) a description of the health and social challenges historically experienced by LGBTQI seniors and seniors living with HIV, including discrimination when seeking or receiving care at long-term care facilities, and the demonstrated physical and mental health effects within the LGBTQI community associated with such discrimination;
(4) strategies to create a safe and affirming environment for LGBTQI seniors and seniors living with HIV, including suggested changes to facility policies and procedures, forms, signage, communication between residents and their families, activities, and staff training and in-services; and
(5) an overview of the provisions of this act.
c. The training required pursuant to this section shall be provided by an entity that has demonstrated expertise in identifying the legal, social, and medical challenges faced by, and in creating safe and affirming environments for, LGBTQI seniors and seniors living with HIV who reside in long-term care facilities in New Jersey." {Training will be performed by LGBT advocates. NL}
" d. (1) Each long-term care facility shall designate two employees, including one employee representing management at the facility and one employee representing direct care staff at the facility, to receive in-person training within six months after the effective date of this act, which designated employees shall serve as points of contact for the facility regarding compliance with the provisions of this act and shall develop a general training plan for the facility. In the event a designated employee ceases to be employed by the facility, the facility shall designate another employee, who is representative of the employee group represented by the former designee, who shall complete the in-person training required pursuant to this paragraph, serve as a point of contact for the facility regarding compliance with the provisions of this act, and have joint responsibility for the facility’s training plan."
{Propagandizing Administration and staff alike: NL}
"(2) Administrators and staff members currently employed by a long-term care facility, other than an employee designated pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection, shall complete the training required pursuant to this section within one year after the effective date of this act. Administrators and staff hired by a long-term care facility after the effective date of this act shall complete the training required pursuant to this section within one year after the date of hire, unless the individual provides documentation demonstrating that the individual has completed equivalent training within the past two years.
(3) Each long-term care facility shall retain records documenting the completion of the training required pursuant to this section by each administrator and staff member at the long-term care facility. Compliance records shall be made available, upon request, to the Department of Health, the Department of Human Services, and the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman."
{Note: If in fact this bill would also require the facility to refuse to hire anyone who refuses to submit to LGBT propaganda "training" (for all workers and all contracted businesses), that would, on top of everything else objectionable here, amount to BDS-style economic warfare against individuals of moral or/and religious principle. NL}
"e. Each long-term care facility shall assume the cost of providing the training required pursuant to this section." {Otherwise stated:"Thou shalt propagandize for LGBT - and thou shalt pay for it too." Thus, an unfunded mandate establishing another entitlement program for the multi-billionaire LGBT Robber Barons. NL}
" 7. The Commissioner of Health and the Commissioner of Human Services shall, pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
8. This act shall take effect 180 days after the date of enactment."
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"STATEMENT:
This bill establishes certain requirements concerning the rights of residents of long-term care facilities who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, undesignated/non-binary, questioning, queer, or intersex (LGBTQI).
Specifically, the bill provides that it will be prohibited for a long-term care facility, or for staff at the facility, to take any of the following actions based in whole or in part on a person’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status:
(1) denying admission to a long-term care facility, transferring or refusing to transfer a resident within a facility or to another facility, or discharging or evicting a resident from a facility;
(2) denying a request by residents to share a room;
(3) where rooms are assigned by gender, assigning, reassigning, or refusing to assign a room to a transgender or undesignated/non-binary resident other than in accordance with the transgender or undesignated/non-binary resident’s gender identity, unless at the transgender or undesignated/non-binary resident’s request;
(4) prohibiting a resident from using, or harassing a resident who seeks to use or does use, a restroom available to other residents of the same gender identity, regardless of whether the resident is making a gender transition, has taken or is taking hormones, has undergone gender confirmation surgery, or presents as gender-nonconforming;
(5) repeatedly failing to use a resident’s chosen name or pronouns after being clearly informed of the chosen name or pronouns;
(6) denying a resident the right to wear or be dressed in clothing, accessories, or cosmetics or to engage in grooming practices that are permitted to any other resident;
(7) restricting a resident’s right to associate with other residents or with visitors, including the right to consensual sexual relations;
(8) denying or restricting medical or nonmedical care that is appropriate to a resident’s organs and bodily needs, or providing care that, to a similarly-situated, reasonable person, unduly demeans the resident’s dignity or causes avoidable discomfort; or
(9) refusing or willfully failing to provide any service, care, or reasonable accommodation to a resident or an applicant for services or care.
All facilities will be required to prominently post notice stating that the facility does not discriminate and does not permit discrimination, including, but not limited to, bullying, abuse, or harassment, on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status, or HIV status, or based on association with another individual on account of that individual’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or HIV status. The notice will include the contact information for the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.
Each long-term care facility will be required to ensure that resident records, including records generated at the time of admission, include the resident’s gender identity and the resident’s chosen name and pronouns, as indicated by the resident.
Unless otherwise required by State or federal law, long-term care facilities will be prohibited from disclosing any personal identifying information regarding: a resident’s sexual orientation; whether a resident is transgender; a resident’s transition history; a resident’s intersex status; or a resident’s HIV status. Facilities will be required to take appropriate steps to minimize the likelihood of inadvertent or accidental disclosure of such information to other residents, visitors, or facility staff, except to the minimum extent necessary for facility staff to perform their duties."...
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"Sunlight - The Best Disinfectant"
The language of these bills generally speaks for itself. The more the public understands what the supporting legislators are up to, the greater the prospects of defeating these bills. The LGBT movement is predicated on "Exploitation Without Representation." They can only pass such measures to the extent that they can avoid awakening and enraging an informed citizenry.
May we as Jews merit to see success in defeating these edicts, in the merit of emulating, in some modest measure, the Mesiras Nefesh of the Chashmonayim, who waged war against similarly antireligious edicts over two millennia ago.
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