To the editor: In studying in regards to the bigoted assault on the primary overtly transgender particular person elected to the U.S. Home, I’ve these phrases to say about this bullying in making an attempt to restrict her use of girls’s restrooms on the U.S. Capitol: disgusting, barbaric and, dare I say, un-American.
We’ve lengthy learn in regards to the president-elect’s important and, sure, silly plan to deport tens of millions of immigrants instantly and the hassle to remove the U.S. Division of Training. However I by no means thought that we’d be studying about the suitable to make use of the toilet of 1’s selection as among the many largest authorities points with the brand new administration making ready to take over.
America has rather a lot to do to get its home so as, however limiting a member of Congress’ selection of bathroom services shouldn’t be on the high of the checklist.
Donald L. Singer, Cardiff
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To the editor: So far as I’m involved, Sarah McBride, a transgender lady not too long ago elected to Congress, can use any lady’s restroom within the U.S. Capitol for the straightforward motive that she appears like a lady. That motive could not attraction to many, however it displays the practicalities of our age.
Merely talking, nobody has a proper to make use of the toilet of their selection. Restroom configuration and use is set by the power supervisor, and I hope that any such particular person would wish to moderately accommodate any and all who use the power.
Too many declare a proper that doesn’t exist. Bogs and sports activities groups are issues we could use however not issues we now have a authorized proper to demand. If somebody visits a residence, it’s the job of the host to supply a toilet.
Immediately, few residences have communal bogs, however the idea is similar. Make do with what is obtainable.
There isn’t 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 lady and valued future member of the Home is unspeakably merciless and backward. I’d slightly share a toilet any day with a transgender lady than a bully like Mace.
Susan North, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Johnson stated, “Ladies deserve girls’s-only areas.” Mace pledged to combat to “preserve males out of girls’s areas.”
With this in thoughts, it appears solely logical that they need to move a rule maintaining admitted p—y grabbers not less than 50 toes away from these identical protected girls’s areas.
Steve Grimm, Lengthy Seashore
