The hypocrisy of Springsteen’s transgender bathroom crusade

Bruce Springsteen is a megataꦿlented rock star of limited intelligence and outsize cultural influence. Now The Boss is throwing a massive hissy fit in protest of a North Carolina law that instructs in༒dividuals as to where they can and cannot pee and poop.

It’s come to this, tinkle-lovers. A millionaire music legend and self-styled ‘’huma🤡nitarian’’ who can afford to relieve himself in the privacy o💝f his New Jersey mansion demands potty parity for people who claim they “identify’’ as belonging to a gender at odds with their genitalia.

It’𓂃s enough to make me long for the quiet dignity of Caitlyn J☂enner.

No, wait! The narcissistic r🌟eality-TV babe, born the male athlete Bruce Jenner, has lately forced me to contem𓂃plate her nether regions by wavering publicly over whether she’ll undergo a sex-change operation.

I could have li🙈ved a long and happy life without kno𒁏wing about

Earlier this month, Springsteen, 66, and his E Street Band canceled a concert scheduled in North Carolina, voicing the frontman♛’s displeasure over the state’s so-called “bathroom law’’ enacted last month, which bars transgender individuals from using public bathrooms and locker rooms whose signs — “Women’’ aꩵnd “Men’’ — don’t correspond to their private parts.

“Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of🦹 them,’’ Springsteen lectured on

“It is the strongest means I have for raising🥀 my voice in opposition to those who continue to push backwards instead of forwards.”

Welcome back to the revolution, comrade! I haven’t heard Springsteen get so politically exercised 🧸since the presidency of his despised George W. Bush.

One by one, leftist members of the celebrity-industrial complex followed Springsteen’s lea🦄d and vowed to fight for people’s right to urinate (and the other thing) wherev🦄er they wish. Former Beatle Ringo Starr canceled a concert in North Carolina. Leftist filmmaker Michael Moore refuses to show his latest flick, “Where to Invade Next,’’ in the state, which might be a blessing in disguise to North Carolinians with taste. Filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner pledged that he wouldn’t make any more movies in North Carolina unless the state’s bathroom law is repealed.

The rock group Pearl Jam canceled a show in t🌊he state, as did the band Boston and🍷 the Cirque du Soleil troupe.

Heads of corporations (including PepsiCo and Hewlett-Packard) and performers (ꩵBryan Adams, for one) piled on in protest.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month joined leaders of other states and cities and banned all “non-essential’’ travel by New York state ꦇemployees to North Carolina.

Mayor Bill de Blasio did the same 🦄with New York City workers, although I haven’t a clue what “essential’’ t🌳ravel entails.

Holy hypocrisy! Ma🌼ny of these conscientious bathroom objectors see no problem performing or doing business in places where same-sex marriage isn’t legal (such as Italy) or where homosexuals and transgender folks are routinely persecuted or killed (about all Middle Eastern countries, except Israel).

Maybe I’m a prude. But if you’r💟e like me, you might be disturbed by the sight of people with penises doing their business, showering and changing their clothes inside female-only, multiple-occupancy bathrooms and locker rooms in government buildings. The thought of allowing anatomical males inside public school facilities used by young girls is enough t♔o keep you up at night. (Owners of private property can make their own rules.)

I’m talking mainly about humans bearing junk who say they believe they’re really women trapped inside men’s bodies. But I imagine that the sight of people with lady parts using men’s facilities mig⛎ht be equally disturbing to bath🌜room users with the corresponding equipment.

Hey — I’m cool with sex changes. As readers know, I applaud an old friend who was born a guy, but grew so unhappy with the way God made him, my pal underwent gender reassignment surgery and transitioned into a ga🥂l. In North Carolina, people who’ve had themselves surgically transformed into the gender they believe they really are may use public facilities matching their altered states.

The question is: How can anyone tell genuine 𓆉pre-op transgenders apart from garde๊n-variety pervs? We can’t.

Bruce Springsteꦆen & Co. should garner their resources to fight child abuse at home, famine in Africa — even the bullying of LGBT types.

Anything more pressing than tꩵ⭕he loo. It’s about the bathroom, stupid.

Tragedy on both sides

Akai Gurley did not deserve to die🅠. Former rookie New York City cop Peter Liang does not deserve prison time, either.

Liang, 28, shot the 28-year-old Gurley to death in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project in 2014 — the result of poor training and the officer’s panic. This made Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson recommend that Liang spend no time behind bars. But before senꦍtencing Liang on Tuesday to community service and probation, with not a minute of lockup, Jဣudge Danny Chun reduced Liang’s conviction ♒from manslaughter to criminally negligent homicide.

Thompson vowed to appeal that decision.

Why?

Liang should not have been in that stairwell. Gurley should be alive today to play with his daughter. It was a tragic mistakꦦe. I wish Gurley’s family members 🐼peace. It may never come.

Sorry, Hill, time to feel the spurn

Some readers assumed I’d lost my marbles when I announced in a coluꩲmn that I was voting for Hillary Clinton in New York’s primary.

(Yes, I’m a Democrat.)

Hillary’s big win Tuesday over Bernie Sanders, 🌊with my help, means that a corrupt dame is set to coast to her 𒀰party’s nomination over a “democratic socialist’’ who would tax you and me to the hilt to pay for trillions in new government spending. I can live with Hill.

Donald Trump’s victory in New York’s Republican primary in every county except the one where he lives (John Kasich took New York Cꦰounty, a k a Manhattan) may lead him to face Hillary in the general election. Trump vs. Clinton? The Donald may just have my vote.

The music dies

All the Ramones. David Bowie. Then Thursday, The brilliant singer, songwriter and actor left the world from inside his Minnesota e♉state at age 57.

The soundtrack ⛄of my life is being silenced, one voice at a time.