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Man strips in front of girls in locker room, says transgender law allows it
LifeSiteNews ^ | 2/18/16 | Ben Johnson

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."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: arth; homosexualagenda; logicalconclusion; moralabsolutes; seattle; transgender
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To: ecomcon

Yeah they do look Russian. Teeth, who needs them!


61 posted on 02/19/2016 7:19:34 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: metmom; wagglebee
It doesn’t say if this is in a school, but this kind of scenario can certainly be happening in one so pinging the ARTH list.

This could happen at any public facility, a YMCA/ YWCA, public park, county fair, Mall, Church, sports arena, or restaurant.
The best bet is to keep you children locked in the basement with no access to the outside world at all.
Do I really need to put the /SARC tag on the last sentence?

62 posted on 02/19/2016 7:20:00 AM PST by verga (Denial isn't just a river in Egypt)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

All Mitt Romney (who pushed exactly this as governor of Massachusetts) had to do to get people to support this type of sexual deviation was to declare himself a Republican presidential candidate.


63 posted on 02/19/2016 7:21:21 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: bramps

If Trump was against it he wouldn’t help get democrats elected that support it.


64 posted on 02/19/2016 7:21:29 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Yeah, pretty sad.


65 posted on 02/19/2016 7:22:55 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: wagglebee
By all appearances, he was a man.

Was it Moochelle 0bama??

66 posted on 02/19/2016 7:23:49 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (My Forefathers Would Be Shooting By Now!)
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To: subterfuge

So you are agreeing that the concept was wrong in its inception.

The statement was not a joke. It is a way in which people should ( but generally don’t) evaluate what they will do or support.


67 posted on 02/19/2016 7:24:42 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: wagglebee

actually, they did give the rights.

no apparent about it


68 posted on 02/19/2016 7:27:02 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: verga

I expect no less from a public school defender.

Go ahead, defend this kind of stuff because that is exactly what you are doing. Defending the right of the pervs to do this and condemning those who want to protect their children, which they have a right and obligation to do.

Throw your kids to the lions.

You are liberal to the core and sometimes it just slips out.


69 posted on 02/19/2016 7:27:13 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ronnie raygun

The guy in Seattle didn’t even have to do that.


70 posted on 02/19/2016 7:30:22 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: MrEdd

Yes, absolutely agree. Unless we push back on this insane behavior and law some innocent is going to be more than just traumatized. Physical interaction is the next logical step for any pervert.

You get put on the sex offender registry for public urination, but this is okay? It’s insanity.


72 posted on 02/19/2016 7:31:22 AM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: wagglebee

The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum.


73 posted on 02/19/2016 7:39:16 AM PST by yuleeyahoo ( Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx)
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To: wagglebee; All
They're causing people to feel exposed and vulnerable with the intention of reducing people feeling exposed and vulnerable."

Yup. In the name of making whatever re-educationified locale "safe" (be it a locker room, the workplace, etc.) the GLBT activists wind up making these locales "unsafe" for everyone else, especially children.

So in order NOT to have to deal with their own upside-down internal disorders, they force everyone else to be "accommodating" -- forcing them to change their worldviews, their convictions, their morals & ethics, & even their lifestyle -- where parents can no longer feel safe to have their 6 yo child in a basic swim class.

They toss young children under the bus in the pursuit of imposing their culture-wide agenda.

74 posted on 02/19/2016 7:51:12 AM PST by Colofornian
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To: metmom

Where do you get that he is defending it? The way I read it he was pointing out that with this law it could happen anywhere. I was homeschooled most of my life and don’t see a connection to your incendiary reply.


75 posted on 02/19/2016 7:51:45 AM PST by Thales Miletus (Men stand up for truth, cowards hide behind ignorance.)
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To: wagglebee

Pedophilia is the big catch of the homo movement.


76 posted on 02/19/2016 7:52:00 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: wagglebee

The gay lobby pushes these offensive ‘laws’ because they hate women and are jealous of their position in society.


77 posted on 02/19/2016 7:52:37 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary has 416 'superdelegates'... Bernie has 14...Democrats don't trust the people - it's rigged.)
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To: wagglebee

78 posted on 02/19/2016 7:53:10 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

These types of situations are the result of LIB idiots getting to vote, having positions of authority or power and, generally, of any LIB mindset. It used to be that the insane were hospitalized and medicated. Now, the LIBs (who are insane) support and encourage the insane to act-out in general society. We are living in a metal institution.

I laugh at the LIB idiots...


79 posted on 02/19/2016 8:00:52 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ronnie raygun

That’s right. Wait until someone is molested. It’s coming.


80 posted on 02/19/2016 8:06:24 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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