As it stands now the current director has stated openly that she has no concern if adult biological males openly expose themselves to young girl(s) in the locker room, as long as they self-identify as a female.
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Virginia Dessin Schmidt
10 years ago
All YMCA members deserve to feel safe and have our privacy honored. Individuals who feel this way about their gender identity should use the locker room of their biological sex and/or an individual room in the family locker room area. We who do not agree with their "feelings and identity" should not be forced to feel unsafe!
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Barb Maser
10 years ago
Seriously? Are you trying to lose business?
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Boys should use boys and girls should use girls!
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Cathy Moore
10 years ago
Please. Give people their privacy!
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Jessica Chastek
10 years ago
Please protect the safety and privacy and of ALL Y members. Require members to use the locker room of their biological sex or the like individual rooms in the family locker room.
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Denise Koontz
10 years ago
You are making a huge mistake!
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angela
10 years ago
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I've always loves the principles the Y stands for. This disapoints me so much. I hope they are willing to put in more family changing rooms with separate rooms and showers where I don't have to send my girls or boys in a locker room alone, wondering what they will encounter.
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Mia Eckes
10 years ago
I will not support this change at the YMCA, it is illogical and lacking forethought. How do they plan to uphold the safety of ALL it's members? Sexual harassment cases are going to sky rocket. I will never join an organization where I feel my safety, or the safety of my family, is at serious risk.
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Jennifer Clarke
10 years ago
We are Y members. My children swim for the Y so swim at different facilities and spend time in different locker rooms. All Ys I can think of have family locker rooms with individual changing spaces. Does West Saint Paul not have these? It seems the most appropriate thing to do is have transgendered individuals use family locker rooms. You don't allow boys over 6 in female locker rooms, how is it OK for an adult with male genitalia to change in front of young girls? It is illogical and unsafe.
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Michelle
10 years ago
Ymca please put our daughters safety first. Do not allow men into their locker rooms.
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Maria Cassady
10 years ago
We were considering a membership to the YMCA this year, but will not be joining unless the YMCA affirms the right of privacy and allows ONLY singular biological gender (anatomically male and anatomically female) restrooms, locker rooms and changing facilities.
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Elizabeth Sandwick
10 years ago
I will not have a membership to an organization that I do not feel has safe practices for me and my family.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
As long as a person has a Y chromosone, they are male. Keep them OUT of the female locker room.
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Lisa Okeefe
10 years ago
My husband and I will most definitely pull our membership from the YMCA if this is not revoked. I will ONLY belong when locker rooms and bathrooms are only allowed to have one gender, that being anatomic male and anatomic female facilities. I will not be changing in front of other gendered people, and I won't put my kids in that situation either. Sincerely, Lisa O'Keefe
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Anne carnes
10 years ago
No way would I join that
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Bridget Cup
10 years ago
I cannot believe your organization thinks that this is a responsible decision! Please reconsider!!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Please reconsider until you provide private showering & changing accommodations. Thank you.
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Risa Stal
10 years ago
We have been in the process of considering a gym for our family. As we have 3 young daughters this would absolutely be an issue for us. When my daughters see the male anatomy for the first time, I want it to be on their terms, not because it's forced on them.
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Cecelia Bunnell
10 years ago
I often consider the YMCA when looking into gym memberships and programs for children, but will no longer do so when the organization supports risking the safety of my children and myself for the sake of political correctness.
As it stands now the current director has stated openly that she has no concern if adult biological males openly expose themselves to young girl(s) in the locker room, as long as they self-identify as a female.
All YMCA members deserve to feel safe and have our privacy honored. Individuals who feel this way about their gender identity should use the locker room of their biological sex and/or an individual room in the family locker room area. We who do not agree with their "feelings and identity" should not be forced to feel unsafe!
Seriously? Are you trying to lose business?
Boys should use boys and girls should use girls!
Please. Give people their privacy!
Please protect the safety and privacy and of ALL Y members. Require members to use the locker room of their biological sex or the like individual rooms in the family locker room.
You are making a huge mistake!
I've always loves the principles the Y stands for. This disapoints me so much. I hope they are willing to put in more family changing rooms with separate rooms and showers where I don't have to send my girls or boys in a locker room alone, wondering what they will encounter.
I will not support this change at the YMCA, it is illogical and lacking forethought. How do they plan to uphold the safety of ALL it's members? Sexual harassment cases are going to sky rocket. I will never join an organization where I feel my safety, or the safety of my family, is at serious risk.
We are Y members. My children swim for the Y so swim at different facilities and spend time in different locker rooms. All Ys I can think of have family locker rooms with individual changing spaces. Does West Saint Paul not have these? It seems the most appropriate thing to do is have transgendered individuals use family locker rooms. You don't allow boys over 6 in female locker rooms, how is it OK for an adult with male genitalia to change in front of young girls? It is illogical and unsafe.
Ymca please put our daughters safety first. Do not allow men into their locker rooms.
We were considering a membership to the YMCA this year, but will not be joining unless the YMCA affirms the right of privacy and allows ONLY singular biological gender (anatomically male and anatomically female) restrooms, locker rooms and changing facilities.
I will not have a membership to an organization that I do not feel has safe practices for me and my family.
As long as a person has a Y chromosone, they are male. Keep them OUT of the female locker room.
My husband and I will most definitely pull our membership from the YMCA if this is not revoked. I will ONLY belong when locker rooms and bathrooms are only allowed to have one gender, that being anatomic male and anatomic female facilities. I will not be changing in front of other gendered people, and I won't put my kids in that situation either. Sincerely, Lisa O'Keefe
No way would I join that
I cannot believe your organization thinks that this is a responsible decision! Please reconsider!!
Please reconsider until you provide private showering & changing accommodations. Thank you.
We have been in the process of considering a gym for our family. As we have 3 young daughters this would absolutely be an issue for us. When my daughters see the male anatomy for the first time, I want it to be on their terms, not because it's forced on them.
I often consider the YMCA when looking into gym memberships and programs for children, but will no longer do so when the organization supports risking the safety of my children and myself for the sake of political correctness.