The uproar over transgender bathrooms seems to boil down to the possibility that little girls will be taken advantage of by adult men.
Maybe, but it’s not only little girls who might have problems with multi-gender bathrooms – big girls might have problems too, as well as little boys and, yes, big boys.
Let me tell you a story.
Years ago, I was working for a major firm in a high-rise building in L.A.’s Wilshire District.
To get to the restrooms on our floor, I had to walk down the hall, turn right, pass the elevators on the left and offices on the right, and enter the “ladies room,” which was next to the “men’s room.”
One day, I did just that.
I noticed a man waiting for the elevators but didn’t think anything of it.
The ladies room had a door from the hall into a foyer and another door into the restroom proper. I was alone in there; it was perfectly quiet. I went into a stall and locked the door.
I prepared to do my personal business, but thought I heard a noise. I paused for a moment but had no concern.
I was almost seated on the commode when I had a strange feeling something was wrong. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, and I had the strangest feeling that someone was looking at me.
That feeling didn’t go away.
I didn’t make a sound but turned my head to look up, and there he was!
A man, peering down at me, over the top of the adjacent stall.
It was the guy who had been standing by the elevators.
What happened next was almost a blur. I shrieked “get out!” and he did and out the door.
I pulled myself together but at first was too frightened to leave the stall, in case he was hiding in the room.
But finally, I opened the stall door and checked all the others to be certain no one else was in there. Then I went into the hall; it was empty, too.
I went into the adjacent office and told them what happened. They hadn’t seen or heard anything and reported the incident to the building manager.
And that was it. But for me, it wasn’t.
I was shaken. My sense of security and safety in a restroom was shattered permanently.
Seeing that face peering down at me left a lasting fear that has persisted over decades. Just the thought of it gives me the creeps.
To this day, every time I go into a public bathroom, I first check to be certain the other stalls are empty or properly occupied, and almost without fail, I’ll use an end stall.
If that incident left such a lasting impression on me, an adult woman, what would it do to the psyche of a child?
Children know “boys” and “girls” are different.
They also have an innate sense of privacy. What will it do to them to be confronted with boys, or grown men dressed as women (or even not), in the ladies room?
And reverse that. What about little boys being subjected to girls or grown women using their heretofore private bathroom space? Don’t boys deserve the same caring and protection as girls?
If not, why not?
What if those opposite-sex intruders decide to take some peeks or photos?
Situations like that have happened, and it will only get more common, and perhaps worse, as time goes by. I have no doubt voyeurs and pedophiles will take full advantage of the laxity being forced on us.
The so-called “rights” of transgendered people – of which statistics show represent barely 0.3 percent of the total population – are now deemed to be more important than the rights of the majority.
There’s a whole variety of problems with this latest so-called equality that’s being foisted on us – “us” meaning mainstream – read that normal – people, who through centuries have recognized there are two sexes, male and female, and that there is a difference between little boys and girls and adult men and women.
What about the stages of development from child to puberty to adulthood? Children develop at different speeds and stages.
In a sane world, subjecting a child who is not fully developed sexually to the sight and proximity of a fully sexually developed man or woman would be considered child abuse.
Even showing a child of either sex, pictures of naked adults of either sex, would be child abuse and subjecting the child to pornography.
Ah yes, but the world is changing. Like it or not, people who consider modesty and privacy to be important are being ignored.
Even in a contested divorce, if one parent raises the issue of possible sex abuse for little children, the courts don’t consider it a problem because if one parent allows, permits or encourages sexual exposure for the kids – well, it’s just Daddy or Mommy – no worries.
Tell that to a psychologist dealing with the problems that child will have as it matures and has to deal with what is today, loosely called, “normal” sexual development.
So, share the bathrooms and showers and locker rooms! According to the purveyors of our new morality, we’re all the same.
A simple solution would be one-room bathrooms for use by either sex. The way we do at home.
But, no. Businesses are being forced to comply, as are schools and other institutions. Anyone who resists is called a homophobe or bigot and, if Obama’s Justice Department has its way, is called a criminal.
The phony “civil rights” activists behind this move, simply want what they want, when they want it, the way they want it – and the rest of us can go to hell!
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