Posted on 01/08/2016 12:41:24 PM PST by wagglebee
OLYMPIA, Washington, January 8, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Washington State will now require public buildings, including schools, to allow individuals to use bathrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex.
Having taken effect on December 26, the transgender bathroom rule was created by the State Human Rights Commission and has been in the works since 2012.
It eliminates a previous separate standard for schools, which allowed them to look at locker room use for transgender students on a case-by-case basis.
Human Rights Commission executive director Sharon Ortiz, along with ACLU staff attorney Margaret Chen, said the rule clarifies law that previously existed under state anti-discrimination law, according to a report from the local Fox affiliate.
Ortiz said that under that anti-discrimination law, sexual orientation is a protected class, like race, and this includes "gender expression or identity."
Chen also dismissed concerns over the danger of opening bathroom facilities up to people of the persons of the opposite gender, insisting there are laws protecting against abuse of the transgender policy and that transgender people should be treated with dignity and respect like everyone else.
This did not satisfy opponents of the law concerned with privacy and safety, especially where students are concerned.
"Parents have a right to expect that when their children go to school, the boys will use the boys' locker room and the girls will use the girls' locker room," Republican State Sen. Doug Ericksen said in a statement.
Republican State Rep. Graham Hunt plans to propose legislation next week that will allow businesses to maintain segregated facilities based upon an individual's genitalia.
Non-operative and pre-operative transgender individuals would have to use the restroom of their natural gender under the proposed bill, but those having undergone surgery to alter their bodies physically could have access to an opposite-sex bathroom.
Hunt told LifeSiteNews he has already spoken with a gentleman whose wife had the experience of encountering a naked male in the women's locker room upon turning around when she exited her shower at a local YMCA.
Hunt said the woman was told that if she was uncomfortable with this, she should find another part of the facility in which to dress.
Democrat State Rep. Laurie Jinkins said the concerns over transgender bathroom access were about fear-mongering, something Hunt disputes.
"It's clearly not," he told LifeSiteNews.
Hunt pointed out that Jinkins has spoken in the press recently about ensuring that everyone feels safe when using public facilities.
"On that we absolutely agree," Hunt said, in that the woman at the YMCA, and others like her, have the right to feel safe as well.
Family advocates criticized the state of Washington's new rule allowing transgender bathroom and locker room use in public facilities.
"Washington's new regulation on 'gender segregated facilities' shows just how extreme the demands of the transgender movement have become," Family Research Council senior fellow for policy studies Peter Sprigg told LifeSiteNews.
He said further that perhaps the most extreme aspect of the new regulation is that even providing gender-neutral facilities to transgender persons would be forbidden.
"You may, however, offer a gender-neutral alternative to the person who feels uncomfortable dressing in the same facility with someone of the opposite biological sex," Sprigg said. "This policy is absurd, and the state of Washington should act to overturn it."
So, when schoolgirls start being raped by "transgender" perverts will their dignity be considered?
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Why not just pee in the bushes and save all that money it costs to build bathrooms? Plus if fertilizes the bushes.
Just another attack on women by sexual deviant, commie lib, DemocRAT politicians. Bathrooms have always been hangouts for sexual deviants. This is going to make matters worse. Dumb. Really dumb.
Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.
"[singing] L - O - L - A, Lola...
and Death to America!"
And there are lots of smaller issues too:
people who hit the seat instead of the water
people who “forget” to flush
and, of course, the endless dispute - seat up or seat down?
The perverts are in charge in Washington.
So if your grandmother sees someone in a public toilet and she is shocked and says something they are going to arrest her.
It’s obvious their goal is to destroy all ideas of right or wrong that we learned as children.
If the schools must support transgender then they could build outhouses with a label “IT” and below it add a little crescent moon as a nice sensitive touch.
If the schools must support transgender then they could build outhouses with a label “IT” and below it add a little crescent moon as a nice sensitive touch.
RIP
EVERYTHING SEXUAL to the EXTREME to accommodate the FREAK ABNORMAL.
And the girls’ locker rooms will soon be invaded by Syrian male migrants demanding respect.
Lock & load, folks, might as well die standing up.
Just as with the recent state gun control legislation, this will be ignored by LE and the general public in eastern Washington (most of the state). If male enters a restroom where (say) a man’s wife is using the facilities, the intruder will be dealt with by application of physical force.
Hell, they'll be invaded by NORMAL TEENAGE BOYS who are willing to do basically anything to see naked girls.
“full out wacko”
Just the democrats in (mostly) western WA.
“The perverts are in charge in Washington.”
Yep! My wife and I are seriously thinking about a move to Idaho.
Also, the schools here have no intention of complying with this.
That is the logical conclusion that can be drawn here. It may not be every tranny, but there will be a certain percentage who will exploit this for that very thing. It begets the question that nobody ever asks....what will you do then?
Will they rally around the pervert who raped a girl? Will the lesbian contingent "egg on" the tranny to violate some girl they don't like?
This sort of nonsense opens a whole new line of offenses which would have never been considered.
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