Posted on 06/01/2016 3:17:44 PM PDT by Morgana
An interim director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a major proponent of laws protecting gender identity, has resigned after her daughters were frightened by several transgendered men who came into the ladies room they were using at the time.
Although the mainstream media has utterly ignored this story, LifeSiteNews and a few other outlets are reporting on the resignation of Maya Dillard Smith, interim director of the Georgia chapter of the ACLU, over the organization’s involvement in the controversial transgender bathroom debate.
“I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults, over six feet [tall] with deep voices, entered,” Dillard Smith said.
“My children were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of questions for which I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer,” she continued.
In a statement, she said that the ACLU has become “a special interest organization that promotes not all, but certain progressive rights.”
The “hierarchy of rights” the ACLU chooses to defend or ignore, she wrote, is “based on who is funding the organization’s lobbying activities.” She did not elaborate further.
Dillard Smith, who describes herself as “progressive” and “unapologetically black” says she just can’t go along with the ACLU’s transgender legal agenda which includes suing North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory for signed a law requiring individuals to use the restroom that corresponds to their biological sex.
Dillard Smith says that the ACLU’s opposition to the bill, which essentially leaves restroom policy up to business owners, proves that her legal philosophy and that of the ACLU no longer align.
“I found myself principally and philosophically unaligned with the organization,” Dillard Smith said. “I believe there are solutions that can provide accommodations for transgender people and balance the need to ensure women and girls are safe from those who might have malicious intent,” she said.
In response, Dillard Smith started a new website, Finding Middle Ground, which is providing the public with a “safe space” to share their views of the transgender bathroom issue without fear of being called a bigot or hater.
Thus far, the ACLU has made no comment about Dillard Smith’s departure and has merely posted a job announcement to replace her.
“I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults, over six feet [tall] with deep voices, entered,” Dillard Smith said.
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a whole family of HATERS !!!
The children didn’t deserve it, but their mother did. Talk about a taste of her own medicine. Can’t wait for the ACLU to call her a racist bigot.
“Miracle in a Restroom”
Or `Progressivism: It’s a Wonderful Lie’
They already have
I wonder if she explained to HER DAUGHTERS that those Strange Men were in the little girls room Because of MOMMY AND HER FRIENDS!!
Wow, who could have ever seen this coming?
Typical liberal fascists. Their most ludicrous, illogical and nonsensical ideas are fine as long is it is only the unwashed masses (you and I) that suffer and die as a result. But holy Hanna, if they don’t dispose of their high-minded and lofty ideals when the Piper comes for pay and they gave to endure NB the suffering they inflicted upon their lessers (again, you and I).
Piss on every one of them.
No. Negative. Scratch that. I would not piss in any libtard’s mouth if his/her/it’s teeth were on fire.
~Roger K~
I LOVE Irony!!
Reality smacks another liberal idiot in the face.
“...only the unwashed masses ...”
Day’s coming when the “many” are going to stop being afraid of the “few”.
Today, I shopped at Home Goods and TJ maxx.
I would rather wet my pants than be subjected to their bullsh it policy of ‘inclusiveness and non discrimination “ than be exposed to a possible rape or video to be posted on the internet.
And, it is a shame that it took a personal experience for her to see the light. Meanwhile, millions of other women are threatened because of this ACLU crap.
This reminds me of the Planned Parenthood president, I think, who was so pro-abortion pro-abortion pro-abortion until she saw an actual video of a live abortion and saw the baby moving before it was murdered. Then, and only then, did it matter.
Feel bad for the kids.
Children are innocent victims of Liberal Stupidity and viciousness.
REAL “justice” would have been the idiot mother walking in and seeing some pickle...
bkmk
How delightful.....
I’ve wondered why a bunch of men don’t dress up like women and then go to the Justice Department and demand the right to use the women’s restrooms.
Wow. This is pretty big.
The aclu is a disgusting bunch of leftists.
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