Protestors arrived at the YMCA in Santee on Wednesday in objection to the organization's locker room policies.
requires that “all business establishments” offer “full and equal accommodations” to everyone — including trans people — regardless of their sex.the Santee City Council last week that she allegedly saw a transgender woman with male genitalia using the women's locker room. The 17-year-old, who introduced herself as Rebecca Phillips at the Jan. 11 meeting, said she went to the locker room after swimming laps and then hid in a shower after seeing"a naked male" in the locker room.
the trans woman disputed Rebecca's characterization of events, telling the outlet that she completed her transition in 2016 and no longer had male genitalia. She said she had been going to the YMCA in Santee for a year without incident.
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