This issue reminds me of the broadway musical, The Music Man. in the play, the con artist had to create a false crisis in order to mobilize the entire population to support him in his con. He selected a new billiard table (the town had a Billiard Parlour but had only just received their first billiard table), as his 'cause célèbre' blaming it on all the problems in the community and emphasizing how it was corrupting the moral fibre of the young men in the town.

This bathroom issue is exactly the same thing. We created a huge firestorm of controversy over a problem that does not bear any semblance of a true crisis. I am not belittling the very real issue that transgender people have to deal with over a function most of us take for granted. I am also not denigrating any of the arguments that have been put forward on either side, despite the fact that many of them are so specious that I wonder how anyone can hold a straight face will making them.

It just angers me that we are faced with some extremely important issues, and in light of the Orlando shootings, I think we can all agree that that single event makes the bathroom issue seem silly in comparison. Please don't think that I am saying there is no need to resolve the bathroom issue. What I am suggesting is that if we could focus more on solving the big issues, many of the smaller issues might resolve themselves.

just my two pennies.

waif