Bathroom Wars Come to Maryland After Lifeguard’s Leaked Email. A Maryland lifeguard may be disciplined after LGBT activists complained over the contents of his leaked email. After female lifeguards complained that male lifeguards were using their locker rooms out of convenience, Captain Butch Arbin, a 40-year member of Beach Patrol in Ocean City, fired off an internal email insisting the men stick to the changing rooms of their biological sex. “WE are NOT Target,” Arbin wrote June 12. “USE the locker room that corresponds to your DNA. Males use the men’s locker room only! Females use the women’s locker room only! … If you’re NOT SURE go to Target.” www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/bathroom-wars
Patrick A. Paschall, director of FreeState Equality Maryland, which advocates for the LGBT cause, insists Arbin’s email violates the Fairness for All Marylanders Act of 2014, which bans discrimination against others based on sexual orientation and sexual identity. But Ocean City government spokesman Jessica Waters is refusing to let the incident slide, calling the email “inappropriate.” “I don’t think it’s funny,” she complained. And the city’s department of emergency services is saying Arbin may face disciplinary measures for his note.