Trans-gender access demand is absurd

Trans-gender advocates, like the ACLU, want us to accept that it is not enough that boys and girls be comfortable with their own anatomy, they must be comfortable changing with trans-gender persons who have the opposite gender anatomy, as well. So, the gender-dysphoric person has the issue but everyone else must accept the consequence.

Can you imagine if when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, similar thinking were employed? Everyone in society, to "feel the same," would be scooting around in wheelchairs while blindfolded. Instead, society was intelligent enough to recognize that Americans with disabilities, have, "disabilities," and so, we worked toward creating an environment that offers "exceptions" to accommodate them without requiring the rest of society to regress.

Arguing that a gender-dysphoric person with male body anatomy belongs in the girls locker room and vice verse is like saying, "If a mouse feels like a cookie and finds himself in a cookie jar, then he's Chips Ahoy."

Demanding this access by trans-gender individuals argues that gender-specific privacy isn't important while simultaneously arguing that it is. They wouldn't want admittance so badly if it weren't. The key is that they want to convince us that what makes a girl female, and what makes a boy male is how they feel. So, the feelings of trans-gender individuals are paramount, whereas, the feelings of everyone else in the locker room are irrelevant.

To go on with this obvious charade elevates "The Emperor's New Clothes" to new levels. Simply put, women do not get prostrate screenings and men do not get Pap smear tests.

Linda Van Dine

Glendale Heights