To the editor: In studying in regards to the bigoted assault on the primary brazenly transgender particular person elected to the U.S. Home, I’ve these phrases to say about this bullying in trying to limit her use of women’s restrooms at the U.S. Capitol: disgusting, barbaric and, dare I say, un-American.
We’ve lengthy learn in regards to the president-elect’s vital and, sure, silly plan to deport tens of millions of immigrants instantly and the trouble to get rid of the U.S. Division of Schooling. However I by no means thought that we’d be studying about the suitable to make use of the toilet of 1’s alternative as among the many largest authorities points with the brand new administration making ready to take over.
America has lots to do to get its home so as, however limiting a member of Congress’ alternative of bathroom amenities shouldn’t be on the prime of the listing.
Donald L. Singer, Cardiff
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To the editor: So far as I’m involved, Sarah McBride, a transgender girl just lately elected to Congress, can use any girl’s restroom within the U.S. Capitol for the straightforward purpose that she appears to be like like a lady. That purpose might not enchantment to many, but it surely displays the practicalities of our age.
Merely talking, nobody has a proper to make use of the toilet of their alternative. Restroom configuration and use is set by the ability supervisor, and I hope that any such particular person would need to fairly accommodate any and all who use the ability.
Too many declare a proper that doesn’t exist. Loos and sports activities groups are issues we might use however not issues we’ve a authorized proper to demand. If somebody visits a residence, it’s the job of the host to supply a toilet.
At the moment, few residences have communal bogs, however the idea is similar. Make do with what is obtainable.
There is no such thing as a necessity to sabotage society by demanding entry when options can be found.
William N. Hoke, Manhattan Seashore
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To the editor: As a cisgender mother and grandmother, I’m disgusted by the toilet invoice proposed by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), and I’m livid about Home Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) follow-up ban.
That is each vicious and petty. Focusing on an upstanding girl and valued future member of the Home is unspeakably merciless and backward. I’d relatively share a toilet any day with a transgender girl than a bully like Mace.
Susan North, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Johnson stated, “Girls deserve ladies’s-only areas.” Mace pledged to struggle to “hold males out of ladies’s areas.”
With this in thoughts, it appears solely logical that they need to move a rule preserving admitted p—y grabbers at the very least 50 toes away from these identical protected ladies’s areas.
Steve Grimm, Lengthy Seashore
