Barber's chosen headache remedy includes Democrat jokes and mockery.

Northern Essex Community College and Massachusetts student Ethan Santiago, 20, are at odds over Ethan's application for a men's locker at the school's facilities. While Santiago has lived as a man for two years, he has been denied accommodations, as he is considered a woman by the school.

"Geeze-oh-Pete!" exclaims Barber. "My head hurts. Can this be for real? How can any newspaper that wants to be taken seriously report this with a straight face?"

Barber goes on: "She very possibly suffers from Gender Identity Disorder (GID). Even the left-leaning American Psychiatric Association (APA) acknowledges this unfortunate illness. She's clearly very confused and needs therapy and prayer. I wish her nothing but the best."

"She wishes she were male," Barber continues. "I wish I had a Harley. Howard Dean wishes he had decaf. Ted Kennedy wishes he had swerved."

"It's enabling a delusion, and it's very, very silly."

Barber takes Santiago's plight as an opportunity to point out what he believes is an effort by a minority to foist anti-discrimination legislation, which he refers to as "thought crimes edicts," onto an otherwise unwilling society. "Homosexual activist legislation," he says, "forces everyone to entertain the delusions of a very small percentage of the population who define themselves based upon aberrant and mutable sexual behaviors."

A similar battle confronts 22-year-old Utah student Court Osborn. While he has been living as a man, Southern Utah University has called for him to provide documentation proving that he has undergone surgery in order for them to provide housing in a male dormitory.

"That they would require someone to have surgery to live in the dorm is just wrong," says National Center for Transgender Equality's Executive Director Mara Keisling. "It's absolutely irrelevant. They don't ask anyone else for proof of gender. They shouldn't be checking his genitals."

Adds Keisling, "Universities shouldn't be making medical decision (sic) for students."

More on Santiago's situation can be read at the Eagle-Tribune. Osborn is profiled at the Miami Herald. Barber's entire commentary, including precisely one George Orwell invocation, can be read HERE, courtesy of Concerned Women for America.