Gender ordinance unreasonable

The Human Rights Commission has a new proposed gender identity ordinance that spells a great day for sexual predators and a bad day for worrying parents.

Any person of any sex dressing as any gender claiming to be any gender can go into any communal shower at any time without any questions and there isn't anything anyone can do about it, whether at swimming pools or physical education in schools. Doubt my words? Read what's on their Web site for yourself. They don't just borrow your modesty to pay for someone else's, they steal it.

They list reasonable compromises on the Web site, but don't require them to be accepted. A gender variant can be offered what the HRC says is reasonable, but the code itself says they don't have to accept it - that person has sole determination of what shower they go into and when. You can't question anyone on looks or sexual equipment, either. It would be sexual profiling based on societal stereotypes steeped in phobia.

I read on the Internet this week about a man that twice walked into a woman's shower room and just watched for a while and left. What happens if we legalize his presence?

The HRC offers nothing in their code that requires compromise to prevent mixing sexes in showers. They know this. Businesses and schools can only offer and hope. It's not reasonable to give one individual the right to determine city code.

BILL NORTHRUP

Eugene