ACLU mom steps down
The American Civil Liberties Union has jumped feet first in the transgender bathroom controversy, not surprisingly supporting the Obama administration’s directive that people should use the restrooms, locker rooms and showers that correspond with the gender they identify with rather than the gender they were born with.
But that policy has caused the leader of the Georgia chapter of the ACLU to quit her position after her elementary school-aged daughters were “visibly frightened” and “concerned about their safety” by the presence of males in a women’s restroom.
They asked questions, Maya Dillard Smith said, that “I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer.”
The ACLU, she said, has become “a special interest organization that promotes not all, but certain progressive rights. I found myself principally and philosophically unaligned with the organization.”