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."
Not if Obama gets his choice of the next Extreme Court pick.
Such behavior will be declared a "civil right."
You get used to it after a while. Just wait till she calls in her posse after you disagree with her about something. You can tell she is getting her butt kicked when she does that.
If this is how Christians act I will be glad to stay an agnostic. Further my parents would be ashamed to consider you a fellow homeschooler
Yeah you are not the first person to express those sentiments.
Have you noticed that she has not yet documented me defending the guy or the law. she is very good at switching the topic.
Allowing children to attend public school is prima facie child abuse. If someone absolutely cannot be convinced that there is some alternative then he is probably living the subsidized life and does not believe he can get or have anything the government does not give him or he does not steal.
The ultimate case of “demonstrating absurdity by being absurd.”
Spoken like a person that does not have the slightest clue of what genuine child abuse looks like.
You have consigned your children to public school, no? For many children are an accoutrement, accessories, as it were. Those, if not actually wealthy, send their children to public school.
Like I said you have no idea what genuine child abuse is.
here you have a situation that truly victimizes women and the libs are all for it
Considering that most females are resolute progressives, and fully sanction this sort of activity, I have little sympathy when it comes to their own doorstep to roost...
But he doesn’t need to dress like a woman. This whole thing is lunacy. People have a biological sex, and their deluded fantasies or fraudulent activities shouldn’t be catered to by the government or the public.
The other thing that is down right hilarious is that even though three other people said the same thing I did, you only climbed on my stuff. Why is that, should I think you have some sort of personal vendetta against me?
>Boatbums, you have mentioned in the past a concern about people that refuse to admit their errors. Can that person really be considered a christian if they don't apologize or at least admit that they are in error?
How about a person that falsely accuses another and when shown evidence of that error refuses to admit it. Are they a serious committed christian.
Careful...you’re about to experience being a REAL target of world famous temper. The vindictive and petty kind that never forgets a perceived wrong or the many, many times he’s been proved wrong and embarrassed over the years. It’s best to just ignore the huffing and puffing.
Looks more like it’s your own personal vendetta against Metmom that prompted you to post the initial sarcastic salvo.
Rigghhttt...you were only trying to “point out the truth”. Poor, petty, persecuted, posseless prot hater.
The technical term for what you are doling is called projecting. Your friend made one of her usual patented stupid ill considered off the cuff remarks. I pointed out the error in her thinking as did at least three other people. I was the one she chose top vent her famous temper on.
ping for later
Yes, indeed. Enjoy your stupid liberalness in all its forms.
Indeed it is!
So what shall we call the teachers who **willingly***choose to support, uphold, and establish the very system that abuses children. They can only be one or more of three things: stupid, Useful idiots, or evil.
None of this daily child abuse could happen with out armies of willing child abusers ( opps! “teachers”). No one is holding a gun to their heads.
I have made a decision. I shun government teachers. They are either too stupid, too much of a Useful Idiot, or too evil to be a friend. I don't have abortion workers for friends, either.
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