A few months ago I met a man walking out of the other stall in the ladies’ room.

He was a newly hired employee in our federal facility…dressed as a women. I high-tailed it up to my supervisor and met with her and the union steward (I’m not in the union, but they still must be involved in workroom policy issues). I was told I had to ‘get used to it’ because they couldn’t discriminate. I went up the ladder to Lorrie, the installation head – who has her own private restroom, B…TW – I told her that by giving this man access to the ladies’ locker room and restroom, she is stepping all over my religious views of decency and modesty based on the distinction between the sexes. She is also putting every woman who uses the employee restroom at risk. I asked to see the policy concerning appropriate restroom assignments, and she handed me instead a set of OSHA guidelines which make paramount the comfort and security of the anomalous person – and to hell with everyone else. Lorrie said “we can’t have a lawsuit…we have to let ‘her’ go wherever ‘she’ wants.” I asked why she wasn’t worried that I might sue over the fact that this is an affront to my beliefs, and very possibly an endangerment. That thought hadn’t occurred to her. I noted that I have a friend I often visit who is in a Federal prison. His job in prison is to teach the GED class, and he recently told me he had a new student who was a “Bruce Jenner type guy”. He asked me to provide him with research on the topic, which I did – much of it was in depth and very compassionatly presented (especially Dr. Paul McHugh, head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins), but the most pertinent fact to me was that the Federal Government was housing this person in a MEN’S FACILITY! Obviously, in spite of the prisoner’s self image, the Feds have determined that it is inappropriate to put him in an intimate setting with women. Yet here in open society, and in a civilian Federal installation, a male has been given access to women in various stages of undress and in compromising situations. In a non-sexual self image disorder, such as anorexia, we would not ‘play along’ and pretend it was normal – even going so far as to give liposuction to someone who only believed they were fat. Instead, we would try to help the person develop a more positive self image based on reality. To act as though this affliction were normal is cruel. One last thing…a few years ago I was trapped in a closed space (on the job) by a man I later learned was a paroled sex offender. It was clear to me that he did not intend that I leave that place. By the grace of God, I was able to distract him and I got away.

This is a foolish and dangerous road we are heading down, and we need to stop it – right now.

***Tonchi Weaver*** is a conservative activist and Life and Liberty News contributor