Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 09:29:32 -0400
From: Whatzup
Subject: It sucks to be a parent these days
Chatham County’s intolerant liberals are losing their mind and our children will suffer for it.
Why haven’t any of the Chatham County liberals given any thought to the safety of women and children before they publicly announced their opposition to HB2?
In a letter from a parent highlighted in http://www.nationalreview.com/
“I’ve been reading your thoughts on the whole transgender debacle this year and notice that in your threads and the comments it’s all been theoretical for you and your readers, including me. Until today.
My 14 year-old daughter is on a swim team with the NYC parks department where she practices at one of the public indoor pools. She is one of the older kids, with the youngest teammate a 7 year old. Today she informed us that just as she finished getting dressed after practice, a middle-aged man came out of the showers. He had a towel on so she couldn’t confirm if any surgery had been done (now there’s a conversation I never thought I’d be having with my kid) but besides his very large, breast-less male body type, bald head and men’s shoes he was putting on, there was no question in her mind that he was a man. And she observed that the younger girls (remember, one’s a 7 year old girl) were staring with concerned expressions.
Everyone keeps going on about school bathrooms where kids are all the same age and how it should be no big deal. Have any of the politicians considered this particular scenario? Are the De Blasios and Clintons of the world [or Jim Crawford, Diana Hales, Karen Howard and Mike Cross] going to be able to assure parents that their children will be safe in public locker rooms now? Is Mitchell Silver, the commissioner of the Parks Department, confident that a 7 year-old girl will not be adversely affected by the sight of a naked male stranger while she, too, stands naked and at her most vulnerable?
If this hadn’t hit so close to home I’d be enjoying the delicious irony of the situation. For several fraught moments, one sweaty locker room held the perfect storm of our nation’s treasured oppressed: transgenders, females, children, and even ethnic minorities, as most of the kids are non-white. (Only oppressed college students were missing.)
I anticipate that with the national climate these days, the kids will get thrown under the bus on this and have to do the accommodating. But because of the intolerance regarding any conversation on this topic, I’m completely at a loss as to how to address it.
It sucks to be a parent these days.”
Some may say this happened in NYC and it would NEVER happen here. I’m not so sure I’m willing to throw my children under the bus to suffer the intolerant and crazy beliefs of Chatham County liberals.
Whatzup