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Bathroom ban unworkable

Sat., June 4, 2016

I am not transgender, but I think that it’s amazing that anyone would think it necessary to have a law prohibiting transgender people from using the bathroom for their gender identity.

Just how is such a law to be enforced? I don’t know about anybody else, but I have absolutely no interest in having somebody peek into a stall that I’m using to make sure that I am in the “right” bathroom.

And besides, wouldn’t that be illegal under current law? The whole idea seems like an employment project for peeping Toms.

Michael O’Dea

Spokane

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