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Transgender woman told to leave women’s locker room
Black_Samson
Posts: 21,167
OLYMPIA, Wash. —
A transgender woman said she was discriminated against after using the women’s locker room at Evergreen State College.
Colleen Francis was using the sauna in a women’s locker room inside the recreation center at the school late in September.
The same facility is used by two high school girls swim teams from Olympia, who also practice in the pool.
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Deborah Horne spoke with Francis about the incident in which a woman told her to leave.
“I looked at her and said, ‘Excuse me?’ And she said, ‘You have to leave, I’ll be right back,’” said Francis. “She wouldn’t identify herself. All she said was that there were a couple of girls that came upstairs to the pool, and said that there was a man in the sauna.”
Francis, who acknowledges she was born a man, said she lived as a woman since 2009.
Someone still called campus police, and local parents heard about the incident.
“They’re uncomfortable with him being in there, her, being in there and are shocked by it,” said parent Kristi Holterman.
Holterman’s daughter was one of the swimmers and complained to Evergreen.
Officials at the school told KIRO 7 that they have been working with the Olympia School District, which leases space at the pool.
According to state law, it requires equal access to state facilities regardless of gender identity.
Local school officials said they came up with a temporary solution.
“There’s a smaller locker room next to the main locker room at the pool, and they (the swim teams) have been using that,” said Ryan Betz, a spokesman for the Olympia School District.
Francis believes the students need to be informed.
“This is not 1959 Alabama. We don’t call police for drinking from the wrong water fountain,” said Francis.
A parent told KIRO 7 that she is more concerned that her daughter and teammates have a safe and comfortable place to swim.
A transgender woman said she was discriminated against after using the women’s locker room at Evergreen State College.
Colleen Francis was using the sauna in a women’s locker room inside the recreation center at the school late in September.
The same facility is used by two high school girls swim teams from Olympia, who also practice in the pool.
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Deborah Horne spoke with Francis about the incident in which a woman told her to leave.
“I looked at her and said, ‘Excuse me?’ And she said, ‘You have to leave, I’ll be right back,’” said Francis. “She wouldn’t identify herself. All she said was that there were a couple of girls that came upstairs to the pool, and said that there was a man in the sauna.”
Francis, who acknowledges she was born a man, said she lived as a woman since 2009.
Someone still called campus police, and local parents heard about the incident.
“They’re uncomfortable with him being in there, her, being in there and are shocked by it,” said parent Kristi Holterman.
Holterman’s daughter was one of the swimmers and complained to Evergreen.
Officials at the school told KIRO 7 that they have been working with the Olympia School District, which leases space at the pool.
According to state law, it requires equal access to state facilities regardless of gender identity.
Local school officials said they came up with a temporary solution.
“There’s a smaller locker room next to the main locker room at the pool, and they (the swim teams) have been using that,” said Ryan Betz, a spokesman for the Olympia School District.
Francis believes the students need to be informed.
“This is not 1959 Alabama. We don’t call police for drinking from the wrong water fountain,” said Francis.
A parent told KIRO 7 that she is more concerned that her daughter and teammates have a safe and comfortable place to swim.
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-9 • 7Wack Feelings 5Nosign 2Cosign Ether GOAT 3LOL •still has a penis.
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13 • Wack Feelings Nosign 12Cosign Ether 1GOAT LOL •Sexuality and gender identity is not clear cut as black and white. I am stating that people need to learn at least the basic of sexuality, and not learn it from a book that is three thousand years old. Being transgendered does not have anything to do with the bible fallacy of "Sodom and Gomorrah". A lot of transgender men to women identifie as a heterosexual woman, and some identifies as being a lesbian.
We actually accept women who are openly transgendered, like the women we like to call, "dykes".
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20 • Wack Feelings Nosign 14Cosign Ether GOAT 6LOL •Depending on the state, it is hard for a lot of transgender people to transition legally. They must obtain information from their doctor stating that they are medically seen as a women mentally and psychically. They would have to go through years of therapy for the state to accept the transition, and to have it changed on their drivers license
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0 • Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL •Just because it thinks it's woman doesn't mean it is a woman.
I'm all for equality and people living life how they feel comfortable the gheys, transgenders, and trannies alike although thats pushing.
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1 • Wack Feelings Nosign 1Cosign Ether GOAT LOL •You know, there was a man named Clyde Benson that participated in a study... He introduced himself:
"My name is Clyde Benson. I made God."
He was locked up at a mental facility on the outskirts of Ypsilanti, MI. He and several other genuinely believed that they were God incarnate. IIRC from what I was told there were as many as 7 men in the same facility that all believed themselves to be God or Jesus. 3 patients were selected, of which one had to be brought in from another institution.
http://www.weirdexperiments.com/06ypsilanti.htm
^^^ Read more about it here if you want.
Just because you identify with being something other that what you are, doesn't mean you're not batshit insane. "Transgendered" people need to fall under the same category as someone that swears up and down that he's God, Jesus, or anything other than what he/she is and treated accordingly.
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14 • Wack Feelings Nosign 2Cosign Ether GOAT 12LOL •Identifying as something that you're clearly not is lunacy. But, because the gay brigade has so much power and influence in this country, saying that a Transgendered person is somehow crazy will get their full wrath aimed at you.
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0 • Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL •Really though, if its so obvious people are shocked that you're in their bathroom, you don't belong in that bathroom. I don't feel bad for that degenerate one bit.
Its the life they chose and trying to compare it segregation in the 50's is a slap in the face to anyone who was a part of the Civil Rights Movement.
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I dont understand why those type of people exist. I just classify them as "weirdos" and keep it movin
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