An 80-year-old woman has touched off an uproar over transgender rights versus female privacy after being banned from a YMCA pool for objecting to a biological male in the women’s shower room.
Julie Jaman of Port Townsend, Washington, became a heroine of the single-sex backlash after she was kicked out of the YMCA’s Mountain View Pool last month for confronting a transgender employee overseeing girls from the day camp during a bathroom break.
“My experience while showering after my swim was hearing a man’s voice in the women’s dressing area and seeing a man in a women’s swimsuit watching little girls pull down their bathing suits in order to use the toilets in the dressing room,” said Ms.