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Remember the case of the cis boy where they had a typo on the birth certificate that assigned him the female sex at birth? The parents caught the error and had it fixed right after.
But due to a similar law he is now officially a woman and e.g. cannot participate in men's sports.
Took me a while to parse all that. Not 15 years ago they finally got around to include some inclusionary verbiage in their rules, and now they voted to remove it again. Why? MAGA-infested or cowardly bowing to outside pressure?
It’s North Idaho, so probably both
Having snowboarded Schweitzer, which is the ski resort just outside Sandpoint, my impression of the town was that it was the bougiest, whitest place I have ever seen. Their repeal of the anti-discrimination ordinance is as meaningful as its institution: going with the zeitgeist in hopes of attracting more visitors?
The debate over the city’s long-standing anti-discrimination rules started with a Facebook post, the Sandpoint Reader reported. In October, a YMCA lifeguard posted that she had seen “a man semi-dressed … as a woman” using the facility’s women’s locker room. The YMCA and the Sandpoint police told the lifeguard that this was permitted because the city’s ordinance allowed people to “use the locker room that aligns with their gender identity.”
The post unleashed a “torrent” of responses from the community, the Reader reported, about whether the rule was treating all members, including transgender individuals, fairly — or whether it was endangering cisgender women in shared changing-room spaces like the YMCA’s.
During Wednesday’s meeting, Grimm argued that deliberations over such issues are “complex civil rights questions that, in my opinion, belong to the state or federal law.”
“I believe it’s inappropriate for the city of Sandpoint to insert itself into intimate spaces where privacy norms, safety expectation and long-standing social boundaries already exist,” he said.
Many of those who supported the repeal spoke about their desire to protect women from sexual harassment or assault. City Council Member Kyle Schreiber said he takes those concerns “very seriously” — but that the focus on transgender individuals’ use of one locker room or another is misplaced.
“It seems like every other day there’s another article in our local paper about a sexual predator,” he said Wednesday. “Here’s the thing, though. None of those incidents involved a man dressed as a woman in order to gain access to his victims. I couldn’t find a single one.”