To the editor:
So ... if the lawmakers have their way, their pandering to the alternative lifestyles will soon result in men in the ladies' restrooms across this state. After all, transgenders must have their rights! What about the rights of women and children who will have to share these private areas now with men. Most women and children are unable to distinguish between a transgender male and a straight male pretending to be transgender. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that there are some men who will take advantage of this situation and it will result in harm to women and children. You who support this bill will be accountable.
Since women and children, the former who get more urinary tract infections than men and who also have to deal with periods, may understandably (to all but some of our foolish legislators) feel the need to shun restrooms where they may encounter men, and since such shunning will result in more medical problems for women and children, thereby resulting in higher medical costs (do you hear me yet, legislators? — I am now speaking your language), then perhaps a better idea would be to have three types of restrooms available: Men's, Women's, and Undecided's. Put a "?" symbol on the third door.
This issue, and all other "alternative lifestyle" issues, are constantly being muddied by those who are deliberately trying to confuse us by comparing their "plight" with racial prejudice. Apples and oranges. A person's color is not sinful, but some lifestyle choices are. How many women out there feel threatened by having a black woman in the restroom? For politicians who only care about appearing as if they are "with it" but don't care about what their pontifications mean to those who actually have to live with them, confusion reigns supreme in the territory between their ears.
To those politicians who refuse to support this heinous legislation, a profound thanks.
Dayle Johnson
Amesbury
