I've been talking about this gender identity insanity (the "T" in the LGBTQ acronym) since Part 1 of WHMBR!, now it's become reality in the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Pacific NW.
Washington state opens all women's bathrooms to men
Mandate called '1st-of-its-kind' in nation
Jan. 1, 2016
Thanks to the Human Rights Commission, Washington state’s newest law makes businesses open their bathroom doors to both men and women – meaning, men must be granted equal and unfettered access to the ladies’ restrooms.
“This first-of-its-kind, statewide law is part of the recent push to frame gender-segregated bathrooms as an affront to ‘equality,’” wrote Joseph Backholm in the Family Policy Institute of Washington.
A new rule issued by the state’s HRC just took effect this month – and that’s after the Houston’s lesbian mayor lost her own personal campaign to open women’s restrooms to men, due to voter backlash. Voters in Missouri and Arkansas recently shot down similar proposals, too.
But Washington went a different way, and the HRC, which has rule-making powers, created a new
mandate* for the entire state to abide.
As The Family Policy Institute pointed, the state’s been battling with the issue for some time.
“School boards throughout Washington state have been wrestling with it. The YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap County recently made headlines when they created a policy allowing transgender men to use the women’s locker room under any and all circumstances,” the organization reported. “However, this is the first statewide mandate that forces businesses to cooperate with a customer’s confusion about his or her gender.”
And the repercussions could prove disastrous, the organization suggested.
“The safety and security of every woman in Washington should not be placed at risk in an attempt to be politically correct,” the post said. “We should be compassionate for the real challenges people face, but we shouldn’t be stupid.”
The new rule “also affects schools,” the policy organization found.
The Family Policy Institute reminded the “legislature has every right to fix this [rule] and they should,” and asked for concerned citizens to call their representatives to press for a striking of the new policy.
Read more at
http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/washington-state-opens-womens-bathrooms-to-men/#VhIVOo7cEXUvGj6c.99
*WSR 15-11-104
PROPOSED RULES
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
[Filed May 20, 2015, 10:54 a.m.]
http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2015/11/15-11-104.htm
NEW SECTION
WAC 162-32-060 Gender segregated facilities.
(1) Facility use. All covered entities, except school districts or other primary and secondary schools, shall allow individuals the use of gender-segregated facilities, such as restrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, and homeless shelters, that are consistent with that individual's gender identity.
In such facilities where undressing in the presence of others occurs, covered entities, except for school districts and other primary or secondary schools, shall allow access to and use of a facility consistent with that individual's gender identity.