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."
How is this person any different than Bruce Jenner?
The nerve of these uptight girls getting all upset here.
/sarc
He just has to say “transitioning” and he’s free.
here you have a situation that truly victimizes women and the libs are all for it
So a pervert and child molester need only announce he is transgender and dress like a women to gain access to young girls and womens locker rooms and bathrooms.
How many will be welcomed into the ladies bathrooms to lie in wait for an unaccompanied victim. Think about that liberal men - you can either take your little girl into the men’s room, past the men lined up at the urinals to a filthy stall or you can send her into the ladies room while a man peers over the stall at her or much, much worse. How will you feel when a transgender helps her pull her panties up. Or worse.
We want everyone to feel comfortable in our facilities,” he said.”
So they want to make everyone feel comfortable, and yet the majority of people are uncomfortable.
This is a perfect example of perverts and child molesters having an excuse to do their sick ways and still the media ignores this, and still the homozanis and cross dressers defend this!
Seattle prides itself on being liberal and here is the consequences, Perverts showing themselves in front of little girls.
How many of these parents still have no problem with this sick law and how many voted for it, only to see their little girl exposed to by a pervert?
Why do I get the feeling the election is going to come down to WHO USES WHAT BATHROOM?
I wonder which side will win?
Fun times this election cycle it brings....
Yep like when many of us here stated that if we pass civil unions then people will be forced to accept their sham marriage and then kids being adopted.
Used to be a time when we locked up / incarcerated the insane.
Normal for the Left Coast
sigh, Just stop please.
Not too persuasive.
Thought the left were against ID
we now have lunatics running things.
There is a reason why the liberals want to ignore mental illness and this is a perfect example of them
“The same kind of people who don’t see the inevitable outcome of supporting Trump?”
Its an analogous situation. All Trump had to do was declare himself a conservative and some people automatically accept him as one. They will be quite surprised when he drops his pants after the election.
Just because you are transgender doesn’t mean you are a transvestite.
And you can even be bigender meaning you can change which gender you identify at a whim.
And Washington lawmakers made women’s restrooms and locker rooms a playground for these people.
But don’t worry, Washington women will keep voting for the democrats that came up with this.
This is still a crime in many, if not most states.
> Thought the left were against ID
They’d be dead set against it if someone tried. But it’s a “solution” to the current problem. Their solutions are never tied to reality and just cause more problems.
The logical conclusion is that some little girl will be molested, raped and/or killed. It’s no laughing matter.
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