Posted on 02/19/2016 6:18:16 AM PST by wagglebee
SEATTLE, Washington, February 18, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - A man twice entered the changing room of a swimming pool and began disrobing, once in front of a young girls' swim team, saying transgender policies gave him the right to do so.
The unidentified man entered Evans pool in Seattle near Green Lake last Monday, February 8, and began taking off his shirt in front of female patrons.
When asked what he was doing, he said, "The law has changed and I have a right to be here."
"Seeing this individual in the locker room, parents of swim team members (girls) and women who had paid for lap swim became alarmed and alerted our front desk staff," said Seattle Parks spokesman David Takami in a statement. "In response, an Evans pool staff member entered the women's locker room and asked the man to leave." They offered both the man and the girls the opportunity to use a family changing room.
He left, only to return during a later youth lap swim, Takami said.
Officials said he had made no attempt to present himself as a woman, nor to identify as transgender when he checked in. By all appearances, he was a man.
But appearances do not matter when it comes to "gender identity." LGBT theorists hold that biological sex is distinct from gender, which is determined solely by the person's mental self-identification.
Takami affirmed, "We have guidelines that allow transgender individuals to use restrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity."
"We want everyone to feel comfortable in our facilities," he said.
Some patrons feel the man, who has yet to be identified, exploited the law to peep at women. "Either identify yourself as a transgender or you're not, and you're just taking advantage of a loophole," MaryAnne Sato, who visits the pool several times a week, told USA Today.
A similar incident occurred in Olympia in 2012, when a 45-year-old biological male who calls himself Colleen Francis lounged naked in a women’s locker room, in an area frequented by girls as young as six. According to the police report an eyewitness stated, “There were girls 6 to 18 years of age and they were not used to seeing individuals in situations like this.” But the facility gave him the right to continue using its facilities as he wished.
Those who oppose adding gender identity to non-discrimination ordinances and civil rights legislation have long warned the ordinances would be used specifically for that purpose.
But LGBT political activists dismissed such concerns, calling opponents' warnings that such a thing could occur overblown at best, entirely fictitious at worst.
Houston Mayor Annelise Parker said that opponents of that city's transgender ordinance waged a campaign of “fear mongering and deliberate lies” when voters repealed the so-called "HERO" ordinance in a landslide.
Some in the city felt the action was intended to stoke those unfounded fears. Gunner Scott, a transgender activist, told KIRO radio host Jason Rantz he felt "concern" that "this was a setup by opponents of LGBT equality to try to exploit the recent debate of basic rights of transgender youth."
But Aldan Shank, who regularly attends the pool, said he thought the man's actions were intended as statement in favor of transgender rights, albeit one that "sort of works against the point they're trying to make. They're causing people to feel exposed and vulnerable with the intention of reducing people feeling exposed and vulnerable."
Thank you for documenting your “Christian” hypocrisy. I’ll just add your name to the poser list as well.
My wife is a teacher. She will retire this year. She, however, teaches primary special ed. Spec ed is kind of the stepchild of the system and the system pretty much ignores the spec ed teachers. Wife teaches her kids real stuff and some of them end the year well ahead of their mainstream colleagues. Even some with less than average IQ read better at the end of the year than the mainstreamers and can handle numbers better. The teachers as a class, especially in the primary grades are not really responsible for the mess. To keep their jobs they must teach what and how the sstem requires which is extremely light on academics or makes them so complicated that they are unfathomable. The teaching colleges turn out caretakers and highly restricted babysitters rather than teachers. Concommitantly the brighter kids do not go into teaching. Massively supporting this system are the teachers unions which are precisely welfare organizations that are fastened to the government teat with iron jaws and sharp teeth. There is no saving the public schools. They cannot be reformed without totally cutting them loose from the federal government and disestablishing the unions. The last 50 years of such treatment of children has produced a population that knows no history and cannot reason. They are well on the way to becoming the interchangeable and disposable parts that the statists require.
If you push your kids into a woodchipper is the chipper the abuser? or are you?
So do the “females” do this stuff to the men’s locker rooms?
You use that word with out having a clue as to what it really means.
A vendetta is when you you have a list that exists to deride public education and spend hours scouring the various news feeds to feed to that list.
A vendetta is hauranging any9one that opposes your narrow minded bigoted myopic view on public education.
A vendetta is constantly deriding the Catholic Church and monitoring the caucus threads to jump all over it when the caucus is "broken."
A vendetta is constantly calling in your posse to assist you these efforts.
I on the other hand defend the good people that your comrade seeks to constantly harass. That is not a vendetta, that is called integrity, something both of you are severely lacking in.
No it is not even close to child abuse. Forcing a 13 year old girl to move to a different city and "marry" a man 20 years her senior is child abuse. A Father that performing oral sex on his 4 hour (yes 4 HOUR) old son is committing child abuse. A step father that strips the insulation off an extension cord and uses the bare wires to "discipline" his wife's children is an abuser.
And before the accusations commence, I am not a public school teacher or official, and I was homeschooled from the age of 2 up through high school graduation. I can speak to the good and the bad of homeschooling.
— it is a socialist-entitlement
— It is and always has been a government and progressive collusion to indoctrination future voters
— It is a cartel monopoly
—It is price-fixed with a tuition to the user of “free”/
— It is compulsory-funded through taxation
— Its customers ( students) are guaranteed by way of police force
—The only escape to families is to pay jizya by way of home or private schooling expenses
— Progressive have always controlled teacher training and curriculum development
—It is godless in its worldview and never more than generically and lukewarmly Christian.
Only evil can come from the above. The government schools must be abolished if we are to save this nation.
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