ACLU leader resigns over trans protections

[Redstreak 6,653]

Maya Dillard Smith, Interim Director of Georgia’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, has resigned after reaching a breaking point with the organization’s transgender policy.

“I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults over six feet with deep voices entered,” she said in a statement obtained by Atlanta Progressive News. “My children were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of questions for which I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer.”

The ACLU has actively been supporting transgender people’s rights. The North Carolina chapter is suing the state over HB2, which makes people in public buildings use restrooms matching the sex on their birth certificate.

“Despite additional learning I still have to do, I believe there are solutions that can provide accommodations for transgender people and balance the need to ensure women and girls are safe from those who might have malicious intent,” Smith said.

Her comment echoes a common complaint about pro-transgender laws: That sexual predators would take advantage. In the past, Smith, an African-American woman, has called herself “unapologetically black,” and once defended free speech for the Ku Klux Klan.

Smith claims the ACLU has been compromised by funding, creating a “hierarchy of rights” that affects who the organization protects first. She was relatively vague on that front, however, and didn’t elaborate much.

She has started a new organization, Finding Middle Ground, which purports to balance transgender rights against concerns of sexual assault in women’s restrooms.

 

http://lawnewz.com/important/aclu-leader-resigns-in-protest-after-daughters-scared-by-transwomen-in-restroom/

 

How ****ing awful of her. If she believes there's actual weight to the bathroom predator fallacy then I'm glad she's gone.

[Didymus 34,380]

Of course children are gonna be shaken at first. That's only because we're so idiotic to keep kids in the dark about the subject of sexuality and not involving them in political decisions. That's not a good reason at all to claim that just because her kids are scared there's an actual danger.

Just incredibly disappointing and sending a horrible signal.

[Princess Die 1,864]

Congrats you ****ing pissnugget. Your children will now grow up to be total weaklings.

[Princess Die 1,864]

33 minutes ago, Didymus said:

Of course children are gonna be shaken at first. That's only because we're so idiotic to keep kids in the dark about the subject of sexuality and not involving them in political decisions. That's not a good reason at all to claim that just because her kids are scared there's an actual danger.

Just incredibly disappointing and sending a horrible signal.

That's not all. People are actually going to BUY this crock and use it as cannon fodder against the transgender community. Also, wtf is Finding Middle Ground saying? A compromise on rights? So they mean not grant them at all? Land of the free my ass, if people have to fight for the right to piss. 

[JustAnotherDay 8,402]

57 minutes ago, Redstreak said:

when shortly after three transgender young adults over six feet with deep voices entered,

There are women who aren't transgender who are tall and have deep voices, are your children afraid of them too?

[Chic 20,830]

This reminds me, I've gotta e-mail my GP to send my birth certificate name+gender change documents.