The Greensboro City Council has a virtual work session scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26 and the agenda is growing.
The original work session agenda had two items posted and that has now grown to four.
The items currently posted are life cycle planning, redistricting committee, behavioral health update and ordinance amending Chapter 12 discrimination.
For those interested in a particular item, it is worth noting that the City Council rarely follows work session agendas in order.
There is currently no information on the website about life cycle planning, redistricting committee or the behavioral health update. The reports and other information about work session items is usually posted shortly before the work session begins.
However, the information about the ordinance amending Chapter 12 discrimination has been posted. One of the amendments to the ordinance that will be considered by the City Council is adding to the definitions for the terms sex, race and national origin to the existing ordinance that prohibits the denial of “equal access and discrimination in public accommodations and employment when such denial and discrimination against either individual or group is based on race, religion, color, national origin or sex.”
The proposed amendment states, “Throughout this Chapter, term ‘sex’ shall explicitly include sexual orientation, gender expression, or gender identity. Throughout this Chapter, the terms ‘race’ and ‘national origin’ shall explicitly include discrimination on the basis of hair texture and hairstyles that are commonly associated with race or national origin.”
The proposed amendments also establish how complaints will be investigated and the procedure for determining if the ordinance has been violated. An appeal process for that determination is also established.
The amendments also set the civil penalty for a violation of the ordinance at $500 and states, “In the case of a continuing violation, each 24-hour period in which the violation continues to exist shall constitute a separate violation. In the event the violator does not pay the civil penalty assessed within 30 days of service of the citation, the civil penalty shall be collected by the city in a civil action in the nature of a debt.”
Where are our morals? There are two sexes, two genders, a few people that got a raw deal, and a whole lotta confused people.
Seems you made more than two categories there….
What do your morals say about treating every human with respect?
not sure where you received your diploma! i only count 2. where the hell are the other one you speak of asshat?
Cue the big top circus music…
Are people in Greensboro being shot and killed over gender identity? Are there corpses in the city morgue who were put there because someone didn’t like their pronouns? BS like this is the LAST thing the Greensboro City Council needs to be concerned with. They need to wake the hell up and deal with the real problems Greensboro is facing.
Greensboro, just like all Democrat run cities, will continue to decline until its citizens get up off their butts, and make the necessary personnel changes at the ballot box. Local elections always have the lowest turn out, and then everyone wants to complain about the area in which they live. Too bad – if you’re too lazy to vote, you deserve what you get.
Our Founding Fathers are laughing so hard we’ll probably have another minor earthquake !
This is just Plain Stupid
Popcorn time
Nothing better for our “woke” council to talk about.
I’m sure all real business of the council will be sidelined for the virtue signaling circus.
The ever expanding Leviathan nanny state with too much of your money and too much time on their hands. How long before theses demorats destroy Greensboro, like Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans, LA, San Francisco…on and on and on…
Aside from creating umbrella definitions for what I consider to be scientifically specific things I am okay with this, but it is curious. Why now?
Also, as one who frequently finds himself in the middle,, what is with the left’s war on science? I mean, time has caused me to expect it from the right, but now the left too? (Academics are scared to get students to think anymore because the students may have an immature emotional reaction versus a mature rational reaction.)
Granted, I 100% understand that science has been used to reinforce discriminatory practices in the past but can we not learn from those mistakes we made instead of making new ones.
“Yay!” that more people are protected, but weren’t they anyway and why now? It’s weird.
Could anyone this new language applies to say “Male mammals cannot get pregnant.” without getting in trouble and fined?
For anyone who may disagree with the statement I made about males, please explain to me how a male dog/cat/horse/cow/human/giraffe/rhino (no vagina, all mammals) can get pregnant, thanks.
I am happy to embrace empathy and meet people in the middle on the terms/classifications man & woman, but I think male & female (aka “sex”) should remain scientifically sacred. That’s just me.
I agree, but you nor I are “woke” enough for the current politically correct ruling class which is ruining our country. The term “appeasement” is in vogue. Why must I be forced to use terms for someone who has a different “feeling” about themselves, just so they will “feel” included in society? This is a psychological issue, not a real issue based on science and . . . . .well. . . .reality.
Are these nasty dirty women trying to tell us men how we are suppose to think about sex now. Will they ever get over themselves and just do their City Council job without trying to control ALL citizens in Greensboro. Its none of their business how we think about and have sex. STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The election can’t get here fast enough.