I read all the hoopla about President Obama’s transgender bathroom bill with cynicism. I have nothing against transgenders, or homosexuals, for that matter. I’m not in charge of their lives. We will all give an accounting to God one day, and from what I’ve seen, heterosexuals have nothing on everyone else when it comes to clean hands.

But I am responsible for my own safety. And I believe that, to a degree, adults are responsible for children within their range, if for no other reason than the world is evil and children are small and innocent. That being said, I’d like to tell you a story. I recount it in detail in my book, “The Lesson,” which is classified as a based-on-a-true-story “novel,” but what I’m about to relate happened exactly as I describe in the book.

During my junior year at a private university in California, I was showering one afternoon in what I thought was a totally vacant women’s locker room when I noted a pair of eyes watching me, eyes that peeped to the side of a vinyl curtain directly across from my stall. Alarmingly, these eyes were at least eight inches higher than my own. The man was at least 6’4,” roughly 230‒250 pounds. And he was hiding behind a curtain, waiting for prey.

My customary response in fight or flight situations is to flee. I avoid confrontation. But that day I didn’t hesitate. I wasn’t afraid; I was angry at being ogled by a perp. I tore aside my own curtain and confronted the creep, demanded to know his business, and chased him out of the locker room. Yes chased.

That was forty years ago, but I remember it like it happened this morning.

The world we live in now is marked by an explosion of far more heinous crimes than a peeping Tom. And so I declare here: No one—no wrong-headed commander in chief, no congress, no legislature, no one at all—is going to defraud me of my right to defend myself and others, especially children, from male predators who, under new transgender rulings, masquerade as females solely to victimize women and children. It is reprehensible and beyond belief that anyone would push to let men who “identify” as women—particularly men who are endowed with what one can only term, scientifically, male physical traits—to enter women’s restrooms and locker rooms at will.

I will keep on chasing ‘em.
@Crazywomancrk