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March 12, 2010

Transgendered guidelines 'onerous, dim-witted'

Kennebec Journal Staff

The Maine Human Rights Commission has decided that it wants more public input before it issues its "transgendered guidelines" to Maine schools.

What a magnanimous decision and gesture. Especially since the public has heretofore been completely shut out from any input on this unhealthy proposal.

As a member of the public, therefore, I have a few questions to put before the commission: Is it true that boys will be able to use girls' bathrooms just because these boys just might "perceive" themselves to be girls?

What is the actual purpose behind this proposal? Whom do these proposed guidelines really serve? And where is the groundswell of support, of people clamoring for transgendered bathrooms? (That certainly wasn't what I sensed at the meeting.)

It's hard to believe that this commission is being asked to even consider such an idea. It defies reality, it defies reason, and it certainly is not for the good of Maine schoolchildren.

Not to mention the complete disregard for their safety that the commission would be exhibiting -- should this ruling take place. Its sense of propriety, its objective concern, therefore, must be for the children's well-being -- not for accommodating the homosexual agenda.

I believe the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) played too major a role in writing these guidelines. To accommodate them, must the commission sacrifice our schoolchildren as fodder for their grist mill? This is not San Francisco or Los Angeles; this is Maine.

These onerous and dim-witted guidelines must be rejected.

Pat Truman

Hallowell

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