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Bathroom wars: Opponent of transgender access says law violates women’s boundaries

May 10, 2016, 11:06 AM | Updated: 1:25 pm

A group is currently collecting signatures to amend Washington's discrimination law to, primarily, ...

A group is currently collecting signatures to amend Washington's discrimination law to, primarily, allow businesses to restrict access to facilities based on the gender someone was born to. (AP)

(AP)

Kaeley Triller Haver says the law that requires private businesses to give transgender people access to the restrooms and locker rooms they identify with is “a horrible statement to women.”

Triller Haver is the spokesperson for , a group currently collecting signatures to amend Washington’s discrimination law to, primarily, allow businesses to restrict access to facilities based on the gender someone was born to. Triller Haver says the group is not anti-transgender, but it is worried about people — primarily men — taking advantage of the law.

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“As a female, it’s a horrible statement to women about their value and their privacy,” she said.

Triller Haver explained to ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio’s Dave Ross that she worries about “opportunistic” men taking advantage of the law to access restrooms and locker rooms for the wrong reasons.

The current law, Triller Haver explained, makes women afraid to report people abusing the discrimination rule. For example, Triller Haver told Dave an anecdote about a woman who saw a naked man in her gym locker room that she believed didn’t belong there but was afraid to report it. The woman, Thriller Haver said, was afraid because she didn’t want “to be called a bigot.”

“You’ve got a law making people afraid to report things that would typically strike you as off,” she continued.

The initiative campaign followed the defeat of a GOP-sponsored bill in the state Senate. The initiative, supporters say, is an amendment to the discrimination law.

Those opposed to the initiative, including the group , argue that the initiative would promote more discrimination and harassment.

Triller Haver says the initiative would simply repeal the law so the state could “come up with a better solution.”

Just Want Privacy needs nearly 246,000 signatures by July 8 to get the initiative on the November ballot.

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