Transgender: Editorial dismissive of women's fear

Re: “Restroom war distracts from fight against real sex crime” (editorial, 2-17).

Your editorial stance takes women’s rights back to the 1950s. It demeans brave women with supportive families who opened up their soul about rapes they personally experienced. Some of those rapes occurred in locker rooms, but you call it trivial, unwarranted fear?

Did you actually go to Olympia Monday and witness some of the angry-looking, 6-foot-tall, 200-pound-plus, male-to-female transgender people there? Would you feel comfortable allowing them to shower with your wife, daughter or sisters at the YMCA? This is what the Human Rights Commission rule allows!

The first step in fighting rape is keeping men out of women’s locker rooms. Trans persons can be very respectfully accommodated in single-occupancy/family/gender-neutral facilities. Wheelchair- bound and blind people feel honored by these accommodations, why don’t trans people?

Obfuscation of language is a great way to hide reality. Why is holding out for rights based on sex seen as discrimination against trans people, yet establishing gender-based rights is not seen as discrimination against women as a sex? How come gender gets to win?

This story was originally published February 17, 2016 at 10:50 AM with the headline "Transgender: Editorial dismissive of women's fear."