“Stop being afraid.” That was the message from the Senators who voted against a bill that would have repealed the Human Right’s Commissions open bathroom mandate yesterday afternoon in Olympia Washington. (fpiw.org/blog/2016/02/11) Because gender identity and gender expression are completely subjective concepts, the state has made it possible for anyone to access any gender specific area by declaring themselves to be qualified irrespective of their anatomical realities.
The Family Policy Institute of Washington asks Seattle residents if there are any limits to the way someone can self-identify.
I already wrote senators and did all that I could. I wish that these heartless legislators who said for people to “stop being afraid” could understand what it is like to be raped, and understand that people with PTSD cannot just ‘stop being afraid’. When naked men are allowed to be in the stall next to women as they undress or they emerge from the gym shower with their naked penis in full view, for the women and children undressing, it is SHOCKING and TERRIFYING. (an-open-letter-on-the-bathroom-rule)