A recent story (“South wrestles with bathroom-access question,” Herald, April 14) indicated that the South was having problems with allowing people of different biological sexes into bathrooms with women, children, etc., who might object. We’re really getting into the fringes of political correctness, nowadays, but it’s not just in the southern states.
In Seattle, there was a recent incident where a biological male went into the women’s locker room and began stripping down in front of the girls’ swimming team. I suspect that the parents of those girls, not to mention the girls themselves, began to “wrestle” with that particular issue (http://bit.ly/24dymk8).
There are other places with similar happenings. According to the newly permissive laws passed by liberal Democrats, all a person has to do is claim to self-identify as a female in order to gain access to women’s facilities.
Honestly, should a stigma be attached to the South for having some concern about what should be a common-sense issue? If you’re comfortable with odd characters walking into bathrooms and changing facilities with your family, particularly women and children, you should tell the world, but don’t tell others how to handle matters that affect their families.
Mike Sigman
Durango
