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 we just elect the insane to public office.
It can happen at any bathroom because of this lunacy. Library, private pool, gated community bathroom, etc
I saw no where you defended it.
Like I have said and you stated this could happen at a gated community pool bathroom, road side bathroom, private tennis club bathroom.
To congratulations all around, apparently.
Yes. Everyone should cancel all gym memberships. My kids are not enrolled even at the Y. They will not go to the bathroom in public alone. They will be escorted by me or Dad. If one tries anything with my kids they will curse the day they were born.
Hey, not just there, but it's already in Texas. I'm a special ed advocate, and I was discussing the differences between the new 504 laws and special ed laws with a lawyer buddy. This article says it all. Texas is already paying for an incarcerated juvenile sexual predator to undergo a sex change because he claims he "feels like a woman" and his parents ore OKing it. In reality, This kid is one of the most violent sexual predators I've ever encountered. They will say and do anything to gain access to a woman's bathroom.
I hope your concerns are documented in writing, should he do something awful in the future, via gaming the system.
Sure, deflect the attention, just like when priests do it.
It's irrelevant that it happens elsewhere. It's going to be happening in public school with their insane policies in place. Public schools are setting up those kids for being abused and molested in the name of their PC nonsense. They have no business endangering those kids like that. It doesn't matter if the whole world is doing it, it's not right anyway.
Something that apparently escapes your notice.
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?
Coming from you, with your history of attacking homeschooling, yes, you do need a sarcasm tag.
And even with that, it can be clearly recognized at a typical dig at homeschoolers from you.
I haven’t seen you condemn it or any public school policy for that matter.
Your silence can speak as loud or louder than your words.
Yeah because all of us Cruz supporters are liberal.
You might consider taking that chip off your shoulder and at least act like the christian you pretend to be.
You really are a liar.
The only one deflecting is you. I have posted countless times that the majority of abuse comes from parents and other family members, at a rate of almost 4 times that of all other groups COMBINED. That is called a fact, deal with it.
It's going to be happening in public school with their insane policies in place.
How is that the schools fault? Seriously how is that the schools fault. The fault lies completely with the voters of that state who elected the officials that put those policies in place. That is another fact.
Coming from you, with your history of attacking homeschooling, yes, you do need a sarcasm tag.
This is another lie. I have never once attacked homeschooling. I have attacked the wacko homescrewlers that constantly say stupid things like your above comments. I support home schooling so much that I have offered at least a dozen time to give you a list of students that you could take under your wing and prove that your theories work. You have conveniently ignored that.
I don't need to document anything. This kid has a folder thicker than a ham sandwich. He's well-known to the Texas juvenile justice system. Oh, there's no doubt this punk pervert will end up in big-boy prison. But, not until he commits a violent rape as an adult. I think it's amazing how liberals can take a set of laws meant to help handicapped people, and twist them into a vehicle supporting perverts.
Can you show that this is a "public school policy." It seems to be a law enacted by the state representatives. Your complaint would be with the representatives and the people that elected them.
As far as condemning a policy I have yet to see you apologize for any of the countless errors that you have been caught in.
How about actually acting like a christian for once and admitting that you have borne false witness.
That would go a long way to rehabilitating your sullied reputation.
By all appearances? I don't think that phrase is even legal anymore.
I suppose I can't use the word "pervert" anymore either, but I will. They're an oppressed class, dontcha know...
They should have cut off his weed whacker so he could be transgender
Outrage ping to phone ...
I am glad to see that I am not the only target of your world famous temper.
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.
I agree.
Bingo. Only, the Marxists will argue the logical conclusion that's staring them in the face.
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