The latest to join the parade of progressive insanity is the good old Young Men’s Christian Association, although “Christian” is now a very loose term.
This from thepatriotjournal.com.
According to a recent exposé from The Daily Wire:
[P]arents are now being warned that the Y’s embrace of radical gender ideology could be putting their daughters at serious risk.
The American Parents Coalition is sounding the alarm, and frankly, it is about time someone did.
Their concern is that many YMCA facilities are deciding who gets into girls’ showers, locker rooms, and even overnight cabins based not on good old-fashioned biology, but on “gender identity.” Alleigh Marré, the Executive Director of the American Parents Coalition, put it bluntly:
Too many YMCA branches are putting gender ideology ahead of child safety by allowing locker rooms, showers, and cabins to become a free-for-all. This is unacceptable. Parents must question their local YMCA to ensure their child’s safety and advocate for sex-based spaces where they do not exist.
This certainly is a chilling thought. Your daughter, perhaps a young girl just trying to navigate the already awkward stages of growing up, could be forced to share her most private spaces with biological males.
If you are thinking, “Surely, common sense would prevail if a girl felt uncomfortable,” well, you might want to sit down for this next bit. Camp Olson in Minnesota, for example, has a policy that makes it crystal clear: Access to restrooms and overnight spots is based on “gender identity.” And get this—if a female camper is uncomfortable sharing her space with a male who says he’s female, the policy suggests she should be the one to use an alternate space.
Their guidelines actually state:
[N]o one should be required to use an
alternative restroom because they are trans.
So, the feelings and safety of a young girl are apparently less important than affirming the choices of a trans-identifying individual, even if that individual is biologically male. Let that sink in.
In Minnesota, the message is clear:
[L]ittle girls, your discomfort is your problem.
This is not about inclusion; it is about a bizarre, inverted logic where the vulnerable are expected to yield to the ideological.
But the YMCA’s journey into Wonderland does not stop there. Oh no. Some of these camp policies, like the one at Camp Olson, also stipulate the camp does not even need to inform parents if their child decides to identify as transgender while at camp. Their reasoning? It is crucial an individual “should not be outed without their permission… to their own families.”
So, major life decisions, potentially involving profound psychological and emotional implications for a child, are now being facilitated and hidden from the very people who have the primary responsibility for that child’s well-being: their parents. This is not just an overreach; it is a direct assault on parental rights, cloaked in the language of “safety” and “authenticity” —but whose safety, and whose version of authenticity, are we really talking about?
And what happens when someone dares to question this new orthodoxy? Ask Julie Jaman, an 82-year-old woman from Washington. She was banned for life from her local YMCA after she spoke out about seeing a man—a biological male—in the women’s changing area, reportedly watching young girls. Her crime? Her language was deemed “discriminatory.”
Similar incidents of women and girls
encountering naked males in female locker rooms
have been reported from Missouri to Ohio.
Apparently, the YMCA, in its rush to embrace the latest ideological fads, has forgotten its core mission. Instead of protecting children and upholding basic standards of privacy and safety, it has become another battlefield in the culture war, “where common sense is the first casualty and children, particularly girls, are caught in the crossfire.”
Parents, it is time to ask some very pointed
questions before you sign those permission slips.
