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."
Now what left wing lunatics? Enjoy! Especially if you have young daughters impacted by this. :)
Couldn’t see this one happening.
They are reaping what they sowed. This is why the whole transgender thing is going to blow up in their faces.
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 is a perfect example of why to keep kids out of public schools.
Precisely.
Any concept which is wrong if carried to its logical conclusion is wrong in its inception.
Huh?
How would you guess Trump would handle this if it happened at one of his resorts?
They can’t micro aggress you like that.
Outstanding observation!
Depends. How can it serve him?
Lol.
This crap is precisely what Mitt Romney pushed by every possible means as governor of Massachusetts.
One hundred percent of people who voted for Mitt Romney voted for this. Perverts like Romney and every one of his supporters made this happen.
Apparently
FORMER mayor of Houston A.Nus Parker.
It very well could be but I also know swim teams which use local public school pools for swim meets.
My kids swam with the Y team at one point and that was the case for a few meets.
And ‘fluid’, he could change his self-identity several times a day.
However, I still would not be surprised to find this happening in public schools with boys int he girls locker room.
Matter of fact, I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
One thread on DU was about how these people should carry a doctor’s note or even a special ID to prove they are allowed in the opposite-sex bathroom. Nobody challenged the idea.
If a facility operator requested such proof I have no doubt DU would want to boycott the place since the trans-person should be taken at his/her/it/zit’s word just like illegal aliens.
I think you need to make someone aware of the microagression committed against you.
Sue them to build a nursing room where you can heal.
That looks russian to me
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