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Here is what is wrong with being a trans
Topic Started: Nov 4 2012, 11:53 PM (276 Views)
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A transgendered man permitted to use the women's locker rooms at a Washington college has created uproar among parents who say their children have been repeatedly exposed by him.

At the center of the controversy, Colleen Francis, a 45-year-old student at Olympia's Evergreen College who identifies as a woman but with male genitalia, says she has a right to use the facilities and the school agrees.

'The college cannot discriminate based on the basis of gender identity,' Evergreen Spokesman Jason Wettstein told KOMO. 'Gender identity is one of the protected things in discrimination law in this state.'

aking their own action, however, parents of children who use the facility - sharing the pool's locker room with a high school swim club and children’s swim academy – have turned to the police.

'[A mother] reported her daughter was upset because she observed a person at the women's locker room naked and displaying male genitalia,' a police report filed by a 17-year-old's mother in September read.

A second report filed by an outside swim coach stated having ‘observed Colleen sitting with her legs open with her male genitalia showing’ in the sauna before telling her she had to leave and calling police.

'Little girls should not be exposed to naked men, period,' David Hacker, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defending Freedom told Fox News.

Contacted by upset parents, the alliance has warned the college to readdress their permission.

The college retorts that they're only following state law and have since put up privacy curtains for the women who may feel uncomfortable.

'This is not 1959 Alabama. We don't call the police for drinking from the wrong water fountain,' Ms Francis, the student at the heart of the issue, spoke out to KIRO.

'This is not 1959 Alabama. We don't call the police for drinking from the wrong water fountain'
- transgendered student Colleen Francis

That swim coach who called police that day says she did apologize to Ms Francis for questioning her, ‘bus she also explained there were girls 6 to 18 years of age and they were not use to seeing individuals in situations like this.’

The school has since set up a smaller, isolated section of the locker room for girls to change in, until the matter is resolved.

Unpacified, Mr Hecker has warned the school that should any harm come to the girls affected by this, they will be held accountable.

'Clearly, allowing a person who is biologically a man to undress and expose himself to young girls places those girls at risk for emotional distress and harm,' he wrote to the college.

'Any reasonable person would view this as dangerous to the young girls involved. The fact that this individual was sitting in plain view of young girls changing into their swimsuits puts you and Evergreen on notice of possible future harm.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227562/Colleen-Francis-Outrage-transgendered-woman-permitted-use-college-womens-locker-room-exposing-himself.html#ixzz2BJwrRQvE
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What kind of comment are you looking for, OP. Or is this another hit and run bash job.
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No it's not hit and run. I agree with Roseanne,, if you have a penis, your a man, stay out of the women's room.
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If you are a minor who is in a sporting club which shares a University gym with grown adults then the gym locker room should have an area partitioned off for the minors and the coaches for the sporting clubs the minors are in should supervise the area.


In light of the Penn State kiddie fucker this sort of thing should be a no brainier.


The end.


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I'm with Liz, I can't figure out why a gym in this day and age has an all-ages locker room. Over a decade ago when I was a teacher for special needs kids, we went to the university for water therapy and physical therapy. They had a separate under-18 locker room, which they built back in the late 1980s. The uni and school district both required adult supervision by two adults of the same gender -- each adult basically "chaperoned" the other.



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