Port Townsend News

Saturday, August 13, 2022

Port Townsend Centrum Foundation Makes Announcement in Support of Discrimination, Exclusion, Bullying, Gaslighting, Abuse of Trauma Victims and Directly against the Rights of ALL Women.

The Port Townsend CENTRUM Foundation has Spoken Out in support of the YMCA's Discriminating Decision to Ban an 80 year old Port Townsend Woman from the YMCA. Surprise Surprise.

Centrum is Not Supporting LGBTQIA+. Centrum is Supporting ONLY Trans Women’s rights by applauding the YMCA’s cruel, discriminating, bullying actions.

Centrum says they support individual rights, well not the 80 year old woman in this story, and with the proclamation by the city, well all those letters lost their rights and so did straight women, fathers, mothers and more.

HERE IS WHAT CENTRUM Said on their Facebook Page

“At Centrum, we affirm the right of every person to live as their fully authentic self. We value and celebrate the diverse identities – including the full spectrum of gender expression – that make vibrant connections and creativity flourish at Centrum and around the world.

We applaud the YMCA for standing strong by their employee and her rights. We appreciate her for providing childcare for our kids, a scarce resource for many in the community.

To the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in Port Townsend and beyond, and to everyone working for equity and justice, we are with you.
#porttownsend #lgbtqia #lgbtqarts #equality #equity #transrightsarehumanrights #ymca”"

Here is What I have to Say about that:

Hey Centrum, and the YMCA, this LGBTQIA+ community member and my allies are NOT WITH YOU. We stand for PRIDE values of EQUALITY for ALL. And not just rights “especially” for some.

Centrum is Not Supporting LGBTQIA+. Centrum is Supporting ONLY Trans Women’s rights by applauding the YMCA’s cruel, discriminating, bullying actions.

I am a Port Townsend Lesbian and I say it was not right what the YMCA did. We fought our entire life with the PRIDE movement for Equality. You post the Rainbow and LGBTQIA+ support, yet I am the L in this and I do not have equal rights. Even if I chose to not go to the YMCA, the City of Port Townsend has agreed, so no safe place for a Lesbian Woman's Rights.

The Port Townsend Centrum Foundation Uses Hashtags #equality #equity and yet there was NO equality or equity in what happened at the YMCA.

The Port Townsend Centrum Foundation Uses the Hashtag #transrightsarehumanrights, yes Centrum they are and so are Julie Jaman's rights Human Rights. Lesbian Rights are Human Rights. Women' Rights are Human Rights. Girls Rights are Human Rights. Fathers Rights are Human Rights. Mothers Rights are Human Rights. HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL may have been a better hashtag.

As a born biological woman, if that was me in the shower or coming out of the shower and I asked a trans woman with all their parts to leave my area, I would feel they should have left. Why would anyone, in that situation not honor the wishes of the naked woman coming out of the shower and leave the area?

The YMCA Treated Julie Jaman cruelly, they should have been kind, compassionate and provided non discriminating safety, support and comfort for ALL parties and not just the Trans Woman.

What the YMCA did is not what PRIDE Stands for.

Pride is Equality for ALL and not to give trans women more rights than women born as women, Biological Women.

PRIDE is about EQUAL Rights. What the YMCA did was NOT about Pride values Period.

This Incident at the YMCA had NOTHING TO DO WITH TRANS DISCRIMINATION. Keeping in mind the 80 year old woman did not know who was outside the shower. She was naked in the shower and heard a man's voice outside the shower. Her initial reaction was to a man's voice, sight unseen.

To me this Issue is about Equal Rights for ALL. Equal Rights for Personal Boundaries, the Right to Say No and not being forced into traumatic situations for ALL parties, and for our intuition to be heard and talked through.

The YMCA should have been ready for this, it was obviously going to happen. The YMCA acted badly period and put people in danger unnecessarily.

Centrum Says “we affirm the right of every person to live as their fully authentic self”. This is clearly a flat out lie aligning with the City and the YMCA and directly against “every” person in this issue living their authentic self. They are saying that ONLY trans women get to live “their authentic self”, get to be protected, feel safe, be heard and comforted, be protected from abuse. Just look online the Trans Women are bullying strait women, feminists, trans men, and lesbians in mass.

Centrum Says “We value and celebrate the diverse identities – including the full spectrum of gender expression” This is not true, they support the YMCA who clearly discriminated against Julie based on her diverse identity, and her gender expression. We fought for Equal Rights and so why are so many supporting this clear discrimination?

When Centrum says they “celebrate the diverse identities” they seem to mean Except Strait People, Woman born Woman, Rape Survivors, Sexual Assault Survivors, Childhood Abuse Survivors, Lesbians, Domestic Violence Victims and other “diverse identities” in the full spectrum of Equal Rights.

So Centrum STOP with your shenanigans of claims of supporting LGBTQIA+ with applauding the YMCA. Do you even know what all those letters stand for? I am a Lesbian Woman I am not some giant acronym I had no part of choosing. You don’t support me.

With these statements Centrum is in support of the Trans women who bully us, yell at us, taunt us, be near us naked even if we ask them to leave, force us to have them in our spaces, abuse us as lesbians online if we want to date same sex partners which is the point of being a lesbian.

If we are scared or uncomfortable at the YMCA we are gaslighted, bullied, defamed, hurled hate at and thrown out. All for speaking our truth, exercising our right to our sexual orientation be it straight or gay.

WE have a right to not want to be in a bathroom that is not same sex (born biology), a right to say NO to someone being near us while we are naked and a right to our intuition and if its wrong, be kind to the 80 year old. Give her equal dignity, listen to her side, respect and rights. The YMCA was Cruel, did not respect both sides and their actions have NOTHING to do with the behavior we fought decades and decades for with PRIDE.

Pride is ABOUT EQUALITY FOR ALL. All Means All.

LGBT Pride is the promotion of self-affirmation, dignity, and equality. We are now a community that has equal rights under the law so why force ourselves onto those with different beliefs, trauma, wants and needs, or fears? How is that ok? To me it is not ok.

Pride was a chosen word for a reason, as opposed to shame and social stigma, this was the LGBT rights movement, we finally won equal rights and now we lose them to men again and you support this? It is not ok for our community to now shame others and put social stigma onto them?

Why not want EQUALITY for ALL Community Members Centrum?

We as Gays and Lesbians have Equal Rights now as a matter of Law. And Same Sex Marriage is legal now. Why do we have to now take away the rights of others? Why are we again losing our rights to outspoken, aggressive, entitled men? That is not the point of PRIDE.

If you stand with the YMCA decision of INEQUALITY then you in NO WAY support the LGBTQIA+ Community. That is not our values, my value nor the thousands of Lesbians I have met over decades. I am sure many LGBTQIA+ Community members will stand with you, simply wanted you to know you don’t actually support us all.

No one should have something forced on them that traumatizes them. Both sides, not just one side. There has to be a better way than simply banning straight 80 year old ladies who want equal rights, or voice a fear or safety issue.

Can’t the YMCA communicate instead of bullying and ban? Perhaps you need better leaders. Ones who will provide safety, dignity, respect equally for all sides. A leader who would have easily calmed that situation such as I would have.

The YMCA staff was clearly mean to Julie Jaman in the least, they discriminated against Julie’s rights, her sexual orientation, her sex, her age, and human rights period.

The YMCA did not act in a professional manner, period. Someone like me would have made both sides feel heard, and given action steps moving forward with strength and dignity that supported BOTH sides and NOT just ONE side. The YMCA blew this issue up by not treating both sides of this traumatic incident equal, Period.

Would Centrum be ok if I identify as a man and shower with the men there? Would these same council members and Centrum spokespeople be ok if this happened to them? Man or Woman. Trans Man or Trans Woman. Think about it. What would you want to have happened to you? How would you have wanted to be treated if you did not want me seeing you naked coming out of the shower?

The YMCA’s actions were not OK, and nothing to do with Equal Rights, PRIDE or “the right of every person to live as their fully authentic self”, which Centrum disingenuously proclaimed.

Centrum are you looking at this issue from any side but politics?

It is NOT ok what the YMCA did nor what the City of Port Townsend did after, they made RIGHTS “especially” for trans women, as trans men don’t act like this so no issue there. And by act like this I mean want to be seen in the locker room, want to force us to see them in a locker room when we are naked, not walk away when asked to leave personal space, run over boundaries, force themselves on people who don’t want them there when they are naked.

Many Lesbians and Bisexuals in your (LGBTQIA+) have had sexual child abuse, have been victims of sexual assault and or domestic violence where an unexpected deep voice or naked man or man near them naked is traumatic. There are women who are lesbians because of rape or abuse from a man. You are saying we have no equal rights to safety, protection?

Victims of Child Abuse may trigger at a man with children. Is the YMCA answer to bully, berate and ban them or calm them, talk it through and provide a feeling of safety? There was NO professionalism, no nurturing, no love, no dignity and respect for all sides. The YMCA did not act appropriately and is on the wrong side of the moral compass. The YMCA has viciously divided our community unnecessarily.

#forsome

The YMCA decision means that if we feel off for any reason, if our intuition says something is off or there is danger and we try and tell them about it, they will gaslight us, call us transphobes, call us bigots, they will ban us, then bully us, get others to bully us and call us all manner of hateful untrue names. If Julie was wrong about her intuition then bully her? Berate her? Ban her? Why not sit down and talk about it? Why not show some compassion for women, for older women who may not understand 2022 talking points? Why not dignity and compassion for BOTH sides?

The YMCA Decision means for men and women that if there is a Trans Woman or Trans Man near them in the locker room when they are naked they, YOU, have no right to ask them or demand they leave your space. Your Boundaries and Discomfort simply do not matter or exist. And if you sense danger or are scared you will be gaslighted, called crazy, called transphobic bigots, called hateful and banished. They call this PRIDE, they call this Dignity and Equality for all. It is NOTHING to do with the Values of the Origins of PRIDE.

Posted here by Reverend Crystal Cox, Bringing Back Godddess Church, a Lesbian Woman who is a10 year Resident of Port Townsend Washington.

#LetJulieSwim #PortTownsend Port Townsend Washington YMCA Transgender Incident. David Faber Port Townsend Mayor.

Friday, August 12, 2022

Port Townsend Mayor still being a Drama Queen on the World Stage as he Cries Wolf to the World.

Port Townsend Mayor being sensitive to the Needs of Us All, Resort to Name Calling.

If you have not seen my videos or other write ups, I have first hand experience with Port Townsend Lawyer David Faber bullying me on the Port Townsend Community Page, as I, a Port Townsend Lesbian Woman stood up for the rights of a Port Townsend Homeless Man.

David Faber bullied me, gaslighted me, and he sexualized my comments. And on top of that, belittled the actual victim of real crimes in the Michael Allmain Case and caused massive life threatening anxiety.

If you have not see that story check out my Case Chronology Page showing you how the City of Port Townsend, Jefferson County Prosecutors, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputies, Port Townsend Police, a Local Non-Profit and hundreds of citizens ganged up against a homeless man and nearly drove him to suicide. The Government Officials, Private Citizens in mass and a long time non-profit set him up for criminal charges, stalked him, harassed him, defamed him, took his emotional support dog FOREVER, and fined him over $26,000.

Link to My Case Chronology if Interested

https://MichaelAllmainCaseChronology.blogspot.com/

Back to the Drama Queen Mayor of Port Townsend Washington.

The Misogynist Lawless Demonic Port Townsend Mayor Calls those wanting Equal Protection Under the Law in his Kingdom, “Moral Panic Stricken Right Wing Nut Jobs”

David Faber has No Morals. He is ON the Wrong Side of the Moral Compass on this Issue.

This Drama Queen is putting our lives in Danger as he acts as if he is the Victim in all this. He is a Self Righteous, Misogynist, Bullying, Discriminating Lawless Bully in my experience. He is promoting violence and loss of our rights and boundaries and cries victim for himself.

Amy Sousa Port Townsend Resident interviews Julie Jaman, the 80 year old woman banned by the Port Townsend YMCA.

@KnownHeretic onTwitter

Conversation with Julie Jaman #LetJulieSwim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQR16bwHZic

Olympic Pride Planning Opposition to Rights of Women, Girls and Lesbians in Port Townsend Washington.

I am an Olympic Peninsula Lesbian Woman who fought for EQUAL Rights and will not be part of oppressing the rights of others.

PRIDE is about Equal Rights for ALL and NOT about More Rights for Transwomen.

OLYMPIC PRIDE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ME

Olympic PRIDE Mission Statement:

“Olympic Pride: The mission of Olympic Pride is to support the LGBTQ+ community on the Olympic Peninsula through awareness, education, and community engagement.”

However the Truth Is Olympic Pride only protects the rights of Trans Women and not us Gays and Lesbians. We have no EQUAL Rights and are NOT supported in EQUALITY.

“Hey Olympic PRIDE, you do not Speak for ME. I, as an Olympic Peninsula Lesbian Woman who fought for EQUAL Rights and will not be part of oppressing the rights of others. PRIDE is about Equal Rights for ALL and NOT about More Rights for TranswomEn. You are Supporting Inequality and that has NOTHING to do with PRIDE.”

Here is Olympic Prides Call to Action againsT My Rights as an Olympic Peninsula Lesbian and AGAINST the Rights of All Born Women and Girls.

https://www.facebook.com/olympicpridewa/

Protest and Press Conference MONDAY August 15th 2022, 5:30 Pope Marine Park

MONDAY August 15th 2022, 5:30 Pope Marine Park Protest and Press Conference to Support Julie Jaman, and to Support the rights of Women and Girls. JOIN US.

All Peacefully Articulated Political Views, Beliefs, Opinions and Personal Experiences Welcome.

Our Bodies, and our Divine Sovereign right over our body and personal space as Women, Girls, Men, Boys, Lesbians, Gays, has No Political Party. To me this is NOT about a Political Party Period. I am a Divine Sovereign Individual and so are you regardless of party or belief.

Democrats and Republicans, Liberals, Progressives, Conservatives, All Religions, all Citizens of Port Townsend, come on down to Pope Marine Park 5:30 Monday August 15th 2022 as we are Supporting the Rights of Women and Girls, Supporting Julie Jaman, supporting Lesbians, Straight Women, girls, ALL Women and therefore the EQUAL Rights, Beliefs and Boundaries of ALL Sovereign Individuals.

Posted here by Reverend Crystal Cox of Bringing Back Goddess Church Port Townsend, an ALL Faith Church WA State 501(c)3.

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

KIRO Radio 97.3 FM Dori Monson discusses Port Townsend Politics and Calls out David Faber the Mayor of Port Townsend and discusses Mayor Fabor’s Proclamation.

https://omny.fm/shows/the-dori-monson-show/hour-3-mayor-of-port-townsends-proclamation

Nearly the Entire Port Townsend Police Force Made the Port Townsend City Council "Feel Safe". Oh the Ironic Hypocrisy.

I SAY The Port Townsend City Council are Dangerous Drama Queens

Want to KNOW who Gets to Feel Safe and who gets to be Protected by Armed Police when they don’t feel safe? Oh, and on Your Dime Taxpayers of Jefferson County Washington.

Well not the Lesbians of Port Townsend, not the Strait Woman, not Woman in general, not children and not PT men.

YEP you guessed it, the Town Council felt unsafe and so they got to have boundaries, armed guards, and so much FEELING SAFE.

Oh the Irony, and in a Meeting where they are denying Women that same equal right to be safe, feel safe or have equal protection rights.

Arrogant Out of Touch Elite Politicians of Port Townsend Washington.

The Women speaking up to feel safe, to be safe are not the aggressors. The Trans Women and supporters are the ones who are being verbally abusive, threatening, name calling and aggressive. And the YMCA calls this being “supportive” and the Y thanks them.

I Fear the aggression of the Trans Women who are clearly stronger than me, as they are the ones acting with violent words, threats and aggressions. If we “born as women” feel “UNSAFE” for ANY reason we are the bigots, the transphobes, the haters. We are bullied, threatened, banned, discriminated against, unheard, discounted, gaslighted, called names and outcast.

We are not the ones emitting violent words and actions. We are only asking for Equal rights of Safety and Protection. We are told to sit down and shut up. We are banned. We are Gaslighted and called Crazy. We are outcast from the sanctity of “women’s rights''.

I FEAR the Port Townsend Government and PT Police as I saw first hand how they discriminate against people, make up evidence, to target who they don’t like, respect or value and how they set up a man, lied about him and nearly drove him to suicide for their own egos. No Compassion, No Honor, No Dignity and the LAW did not matter they broke the Law, they are above the Law.

A governing body such as this and police force answering to them is what I FEAR. As they can set me up for criminal charges, endanger my life, abuse me, taunt me, bully me at any given moment for any reason. They are above the Law. It is THEM I FEAR.

Live in a Vehicle in Port Townsend they bully and harass you at their whim, they threaten to take your home if you speak out about them. They don’t care how much anxiety, stress or suicidal thoughts it causes. Yes against Washington State Law. But when it comes to who they want to discriminate against, bully or set up the WA State law is irrelevant.

The truth or law does not matter in Port Townsend Government or Law Enforcement. What matters is what they “believe” what and who “they” value.

Many of the Port Townsend Police Force want to uphold the Law, but “woke” politics prevents them. They answer to the EVIL Mayor and the Demonic Politicians around him.

The Jefferson County Law Enforcement cater to the City of Port Townsend Politics and will ticket us, threaten to take our vehicles, set us up for crimes, fine us, steal our emotional support animals and do as they please at any moment. Causing massive PTSD wondering when it will happen next.

The City of Port Townsend will allow a police officer to set up a homeless man, and nearly kill him with weaponizing law enforcement, county prosecutors, the county sheriff, county deputies, and any other resource, as well as spent massive money all to NOT be WRONG, and to get their man (targeted individual whomever it may be that day).

Little Video of Port Townsend Free Press Post on this hypocrisy, as the Port Townsend City Councils NEEDS to “feel safe” and the get to.

https://rumble.com/v1fkg7n-the-port-townsend-city-council-are-dangerous-drama-queens.html

KIRO Radio 97.3 FM Dori Monson on the Port Townsend YMCA Trans Issue. This is audio only, heard it on the radio today and missed the very beginning.

Dori asks How Port Townsend Mayor David Faber and the City of Port Townsend will protect women and children from possible predators?

https://rumble.com/v1fk9qt-kiro-radio-97.3-fm-dori-monson-on-the-port-townsend-ymca-trans-issue..html

Julie Jaman, a Bigoted Transphobe? Ya I DON’T Think So.

COME on Queer Family is this what PRIDE is now? NOT FOR ME.

Reverend Crystal Cox Video Commentary on Queerty Article Entitled “Washington woman who screamed obscenities at trans YMCA employee somehow shocked at being banned”

https://rumble.com/v1fk1jf-queerty-cries-out-transphobe-bigot-and-stomps-on-equal-rights-of-prides-ori.html

Port Townsend Julie Jaman on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM Dori Monson. Banned from the YMCA for Boundaries, Individual Rights, Intuition ...

Julie Jaman on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM Dori Monson regarding her being banned from the Port Townsend YMCA for wanting a Trans Woman to leave her space. Take a Listen. @DavidJFaber @YMCASeattle @cityofpt @ReduxxMag @ALLIANCELGB

https://omny.fm/shows/the-dori-monson-show/80-year-old-port-townsend-talks-about-the-response%20//

Podcast on the YMCA banning Julie Jaman. DISCERN. Make sure you are thinking for yourself.

Amy Sousa Comment to the Podcaster.

"Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology @KnownHeretic

@Timcast  for covering, but please note that Julie Jaman has been a lifelong activist. She's been a highly participatory community member. Her immediate action on this issue speaks to her understanding of local government & her willingness to fight."

I Agree with Amy Sousa on this. Julie Jaman is active in local politics, the local community. Julie is very "in the know" and her reaction was not out of touch with politics. That said perhaps she did not know what the democrats had voted for over these issues or really understand what was being pushed through her political party.  And now she does, and well she will make noise and she will protect the underdog, the unseen, the unheard fiercely. I have seen her do it in our area a lot. So its not an out of touch with politics thing just sayin'.

LINK to PODCAST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OiHu8iW3N0

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Port Townsend Leader Censors Port Townsend Woman, as is their Pattern and History to only allow one side of any story or issue. Here is Julie Jaman’ DENIED Letter to the Editor.

“Showering after my swim at Mt. View Pool, I heard a man’s voice. Peeking out I saw a man in a woman’s bathing suit watching little girls pull down their swimsuits In order to use the bathroom. “Get out of here,” I said.

This is the incident that caused a Y staff person to condemn me as discriminatory and banned me forever from using the pool – the pool with binary changing areas that my family has supported and used for 35 years. I sense I have arrived at the center of this topsy turvy world.

There is no signage on the door informing pool patrons that men will be using the women’s shower/dressing room if they identify as women. There is no place at the pool for women and girls to use who do not want men watching while they shower and dress.

I spoke with a Port Townsend police detective and with the Y’s CEO, Wendy Bart. This, so far, is not a legal incident. However, the CEO provided some information of concern. Ms. Bart told me she assumes the posted “pride” signs indicating the Y welcomes all people are adequate for women to know crossdressers and men who identify as women will be using the women’s dressing/shower room. And she told me that it is the law not to discriminate against such people and that she was standing by her staff person’s decision to exclude me from the pool.

However, there is no way around discriminating against someone in this sex classification vs. gender identity issue when it comes to modesty, dignity and safety. Someone is going to be trespassed. This time it was me: the pool manager, with no inquiry for my well being or concern for what I saw and while I was still in the shower, told me I was discriminating against this man and booted me from the pool.

“Pride” signs act as a euphemism allowing men into the spaces women have always trusted as safe from the eyes of men. The Olympic Peninsula Y is remiss in not posting clear signage on the dressing room doors and for not providing a unisex or family place for those who want to mix it up.

Julie Jaman

Quimper Peninsula"

Source of Post

https://www.porttownsendfreepress.com/2022/08/04/censored-mens-eyes-in-womens-shower-room/?fbclid=IwAR0E576Usmww7NzNKC0NdPF5_tUErzl8NhioGP4K-rdsSEkX8eqP599ZDVs

City of Port Townsend Mayor David Faber Announcement on Women’s Rights in response to the recent YMCA Trans Woman Changing Room Incident.

We ALL have a RIGHT to Say NO to anyone in the area where we are naked, to say anything else is violating and abusive period. To choose the rights of one person over another is NOT equality, not inclusive, and is down right abusive.

Port Townsend Washington Mayor David Faber is, in my opinion and personal experience, an evil abusive pervert.

Pervert defined as: “alter (something) from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended.” 

A while back I was wholeheartedly supporting the TRUTH about a local Port Townsend Homeless man attacked and stalked by a large group of people including police and government employees. I was defending the Law and the Truth. I was standing up for human rights and human dignity. I am a Woman. I am a Lesbian. David Faber commented on the Michael Allmain Case online and sexualized my comments, he stood with the wrong side of the law and bullied me. He is NOT a GOOD guy in ANY sense of the word. 

Mayor Faber’s abusive comments to me, and perverse nature of his comments are, in my opinion and experience signs of an abuser, of a narcissistic gas lighter and in no way in support of those who are being bullied, harassed, stalked or suicidal. In fact Mayor Faber joined in to bully me, Reverend Crystal Cox, and further push a local homeless man Michael Allmain toward suicide. No matter how much I pleaded for help, I was ignored, the man nearly died. Faber is a DEMON through and through as far as I see it.

Mayor David Fabor does not care about the Law, nor does he care about those bullied and suicidal. The Michael Allmain Case CLEARLY points that out, where he mocked, gas lighted and bullied Michael and he bullied and abused me for supporting him. 

David Faber, in his announcement today on where he and the City of Port Townsend Stands is Pure Demonic LIES. Don’t Believe any of it is Sincere.

Posted here by Reverend Crystal Cox, Goddess Church

ReverendCrystalCox@gMail.com

NOTE I will post all emails, bullying, threats and or hate at my discretion.

Saturday, August 6, 2022

"Censored: Men’s Eyes in Women’s Shower Room" Port Townsend Free Press Article." Port Townsend Leader yet Again censoring the Public.

"Editors Note: In the Free Press‘s ongoing efforts to expose censorship by local media, we are publishing a letter to the editor written to The Leader by long-time Port Townsend resident Julie Jaman. The letter, printed in full below, was submitted on July 28th following her experience at the Mountain View Pool, a City of Port Townsend facility operated in partnership with the Olympic Peninsula YMCA. The Free Press reported in detail on the episode the letter describes. Other information outlets have since picked up the story, including The Post Millennial, The Distance, and the feminist REDUXX.

Not only did The Leader not publish Jaman’s letter, Jefferson County’s weekly “newspaper of record” provided no coverage of any kind about this significant incident.

The violation of a biological woman’s right to privacy and her subsequent banning from the pool led to a police report, protests and counter-protests at the Mountain View Commons, as well as dozens of public comments at the August 1st Port Townsend City Council meeting.

Rather than publish Jaman’s letter and/or a news story, however, this week’s Leader featured a public relations article promoting the Y on their front page.

A call from Jaman to the editor was never returned, she says. Once again we see censorship by the legacy media in deference to local institutions and their biases.

Below is the letter The Leader chose not to print. The title was provided by Julie Jaman as part of her submission.

Men’s Eyes in Women’s Shower Room

Editor, The Leader

Showering after my swim at Mt. View Pool, I heard a man’s voice. Peeking out I saw a man in a woman’s bathing suit watching little girls pull down their swimsuits In order to use the bathroom. “Get out of here,” I said.

Julie Jaman

Quimper Peninsula"

Source

https://www.porttownsendfreepress.com/2022/08/04/censored-mens-eyes-in-womens-shower-room/?fbclid=IwAR0E576Usmww7NzNKC0NdPF5_tUErzl8NhioGP4K-rdsSEkX8eqP599ZDVs

KOMO News on Port Townsend YMCA Trans Woman Issue. "YMCA bans grandma after she demanded transgender staff member leave women's locker room"

"PORT TOWNSEND, Wash (TND) — An 80-year-old woman in Washington State has reportedly been banned from her local YMCA after she demanded that a transgender staff member, who was overseeing a group of young girls during their bathroom time, be removed from the women's locker room.

Julie Jaman, a resident of Port Townsend, Washington for over 40 years, told the Port Townsend Free Press she was concerned the transgender staff member was watching little girls as they undressed. Jaman reportedly heard a "male voice" in the locker room after one of her routine swimming exercises at the facility on July 22, and upon investigating, she found the transgender staff member.

As Jaman explains it, the locker rooms feature communal showers that feature little privacy. Each shower stall only features a light curtain that, as the Port Townsend Free Press puts it, doesn't "provide much of a shield from the eyes of others." Jaman recalls hearing a man's voice while she was showering. She turned to see four little girls and a person she believed to be a man.

There were gaps in the curtain and there I was, naked, with soap and water on me, and this guy, right there very close to me. I asked, ‘Do you have a penis?’ He said, ‘That’s none of your business.’ That’s when I told him, ‘Get out of here, right now,'" Jaman recounts to the Port Townsend Free Press.

The YMCA’s aquatics manager then reportedly told Jaman that she was "discriminating," telling her "you can’t use the pool anymore and I’m calling the police.” Jaman recalled being stunned, not remembering if she even dried off, and says she attempted to leave. The aquatics manager was near the facility's entrance and again clashed with Jaman.

During the confrontation, another YMCA employee told Jaman she couldn't leave, according to the Free Press, adding the aquatics manager echoed the sentiment. Jaman then reportedly said to both employees she was going to contact the police, which she did, later filing a complaint.

In an obtained police report, Port Townsend Police Officer Marc Titterness said that Jaman "had an emotional response to a strange male being in the bathroom and helping a young girl take off her bathing suit." However, as the police investigated, it was revealed another person had called them about the incident, saying Jaman was refusing to leave the YMCA and also told them that "[the transgender staff member] was in the bathroom with a child in the day camp and Julie asked if she had a penis and started screaming at her to get out."

YMCA’s Marketing and Communications Manager, speaking with The Post Millennial, claims Jaman wasn't banned for this incident alone, but rather "repeatedly violating the Olympic Peninsula YMCA code of conduct, specifically, using disrespectful words or gestures towards YMCA staff or others; and abusive, harassing and/or obscene language or gestures towards YMCA staff or others."

Jaman reportedly has a list of previous offenses at that YMCA location, but this incident with the transgender staff member was "unforgivable and extremely harmful," according to the same communications manager.

Wendy Bart, the CEO of the Olympic Peninsula YMCA, shared additional details with the Free Press. Bart claims she stands behind her employees' actions in their confrontation with Jaman, and that the 80-year-old woman told the transgender staff member "you’re going to stick your f---ing penis in those little girls," a statement Jaman denies making.

"I am an 80-year-old woman and I do not talk like that." Jaman told the Substack page "The Distance."

The Free Beacon added that protestors gathered outside the YMCA after news of Jaman's ban broke. The YMCA also told the publication that many who gathered outside for the protests were in support of the ban."

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"Senior Woman Banned From Local Pool After Expressing Concern Over Male in Women’s Washroom" By Anna Slatz August 4, 2022 REDUXX

"By Anna Slatz August 4, 2022 REDUXX

A senior woman who expressed discomfort regarding a trans-identified male in the women’s changing room at her local pool has been banned from using the facilities she frequented for over three decades.

Julie Jaman, 80, had been a guest at the YMCA-run Mountain View community pool in her small town of Port Townsend, Washington for over 35 years. Speaking to Reduxx, Jaman revealed that on July 26, she witnessed a trans-identified male using the female locker rooms at the pool, and became concerned due to the fact he appeared to be watching the little girls as they changed out of their bathing suits.

“I was showering [after a swim] and I heard a man’s voice … it was quite deep,” Jaman told Reduxx, “So I looked through the shower curtain. There was a man in a women’s bathing suit, and he was near four or five little girls who were taking off their bathing suits. He was standing there watching them.”

Jaman observed the male through the opening in the shower curtain for a moment. Shocked by his presence and becoming increasingly distressed about his proximity to the children, she quietly asked: “Do you have a penis?” The male refused to answer, prompting Jaman to demand he leave the locker room.

Rowen DeLuna, the pool’s aquatics manager, was in the area at the time, and when Jaman appealed to her to remove the male from the restroom, DeLuna told her she was being “discriminatory” and threatened to call the police.

“She said, ‘you are being discriminatory, you are banned from the pool, and I am calling the police.’ I was totally stunned,” Jaman says, adding that she felt particularly vulnerable, being berated while nude.

She quickly got dressed and left the changing room, immediately moving to leave the building. As she did, DeLuna continued yelling towards her.

“She said, ‘You are not following the [YMCA] values and principles,'” Jaman explained, noting that YMCA staff allegedly attempted to block her from leaving as she tried to go, telling her the police were on their way.

“I said ‘bullshit I can’t leave!'” Jaman scoffs, noting she immediately went to the Port Townsend Police Department, which shares a community complex with the pool. She explained what had happened to an Officer, noting it was extremely emotional for her.

“I kept thinking of those little girls, and it was really affecting me…” Jaman said, beginning to choke back tears, “It is affecting me right now. It was really unreal that would happen.”

The Officer gave her a card with the name of a Detective who was meant to call her later on, but she was ultimately contacted by Officer Mark Titterness, who took a formal report from Jamal on the incident.

The male in the locker room was identified by a local citizen journalist as Clementine Adams, a transgender employee of the YMCA, though Jaman says he wasn’t displaying any indication he was staff.

According to a GoFundMe managed by Adams, he began identifying as a woman in December of 2021, but only announced his transition in April of 2022.

An active GoFundMe managed by Adams seeking funds for “bottom surgery.”

In response to her ban, on August 1, Jaman, who has been an active citizen of Port Townsend for 40 years, chose to stand outside of the pool with a sign intended to inform other women that males were using the women’s facilities inside. A small number of majority elderly women turned up to support Jaman.

On Facebook, trans activists encouraged each other to rally in counter-demonstration, with several showing up with LGBTQ Pride Flags and berating Jaman and her friends.

“They said: You can’t say those things. You’re being a bigot,” Jaman said, “They told men males can be women. I said I don’t agree with [your] ideology. I told them that in all my 80 years I had never run into this.”

While most pool patrons remained politely curious about Jaman’s sign, she says that at one point, a mother had her 9-year-old child come up to her and tell her she was being “hurtful” to the LGBTQ community.

An August 1 protest in front of the Mountain View Pool. Jaman [L] holds a sign warning other women of the pool policies. Photo Credit: The Port Townsend Free Press.

Jaman also contacted Wendy Bart, the CEO of the Olympic Peninsula YMCA which oversees Mountain View pool. While she initially had to leave a message, Bart contacted Jaman later that day in what she described as akin to an interrogation.

“Even after I explained what happened, she kept asking ‘what did you say?'” Implying Jaman was not being forthcoming, “She said ‘that’s not what I have been told,’ and I asked her what she meant.”

Jaman says Bart informed her the Mountain View staff had claimed she had been vulgarly abusive towards the trans-identified male.

“She told me she’d heard I said something to the effect of ‘you’re going to use your penis to f*ck those little girls.’ I am an 80 year old woman! I do not speak that way! I told [Bart] that.”

When Jaman asked Bart why no signs had been posted informing women that males could potentially be in the locker rooms, she says she was told: “‘We post pride signs, and we assume that lets women know what to expect.'”

That same day, Jaman went to the Port Townsend City Council meeting to share her experience and issue a complaint on the community pool’s policy.

In a three-minute speech she gave to the Council, she explained what had happened at the pool on July 26, and requested separate facilities be made available for females.

“The YMCA policies on gender identity use ‘pride’ as a euphemism to prevent discrimination against one group of people but at the expense of another group – women who don’t want to use all-gender bathing or dressing areas,” Jaman said in her address to the Council, continuing: “Just as the City has installed special doors and spaces for handicapped people, the YMCA should provide an all-gender changing area as well as binary facilities to accommodate all patrons.”

Jaman [L] speaking to City Council on August 1.

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Following her speech, Jaman was met with boisterous applause and cheers by other local community members who had attended the council meeting.

But another woman took the stand to oppose Jaman, stating she had driven from a distance to oppose Jaman’s perspective.

“I would just like to state that this individual is not a man identifying as a woman, this individual is a woman.” Rebecca Horasct of Sequim, Washington said, “It is inappropriate in this day and age for people to not recognize what transgender means.”

Following Horasct, a man took the stand to similarly call the gender binary “ridiculous,” and “unscientific,” adding that he found Jaman’s “bigotry deplorable.”

Multiple other citizens took the stand, most in support of Jaman and her concept of an exclusive alternative space for women and girls. One mother who was an active swimmer took the stand to state she felt that “little girls were just going to quit swimming” if they didn’t have an exclusive, safe space.

Mountain View pool has issued a press release in response to the protest, in which it states: “We will not tolerate bias, hatred, or discrimination that leads to the oppression of individuals or communities. We will ensure sustained and meaningful progress toward equity and human dignity for all.”

The release also references Washington State Law 162-32-060.

The law states that public facilities must allow individuals access to spaces “that are consistent with that individual’s gender expression or gender identity,” continuing that if an individual expresses discomfort they should be “directed to a separate or gender-neutral facility.”

Reduxx reached out to Erin Hawkins, the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Mountain View Pool, for comment, and was told Jaman was permanently banned because she had violated the pool’s policies “repeatedly.” But when Hawkins was asked what other incidents Jaman had been involved in, and on what dates those incidents occurred, she was unable to give any specific details.

While Hawkins asserted Jaman had been extremely rude towards the trans-identified male staff member, she confirmed there was no evidence of what the pool staff had claimed she had said beyond their own self-reported incident writeup. Hawkins stated that the pool staff had not filed a police reported against Jaman, but were planning to in the future as a form of protection from her claims.

Hawkins added that her solution to females who felt uncomfortable changing around males were to use bathroom stalls, which are located in the same gender-neutral area. She also suggested closing the shower curtain was an appropriate solution for privacy and safety.

But Jaman doesn’t find this to be an acceptable guidance.

“The law says that if someone does not want to use the gender neutral dressing or toilet room, they can use an alternative. But it is up to the [pool] to provide that alternative. That’s the law. Last year, they said there was an additional space, but they have misconstrued that.”

On the issue of self-identification, Jaman says she was never active in the gender identity debate, having no form of social media, no smart phone, and limited knowledge of how to use a computer. She calls it a “radical cultural change” that she feels is eroding women’s right to dignity across the board.

Four decades ago, Jaman helped establish the first crisis shelter for women and children in the Port Townsend community after often offering up her own home as a safe space for women fleeing violence.

“We subsequently built Dove House, which was a shelter for women victims. I’ve now been told it’s for everyone. I don’t know if now they let men who identify as women in the women’s sleeping area … they don’t ask for sex anymore, they just ask for gender identity.” Jaman adds that she knows of many areas in the community that have become gender free-for-alls, and expresses concern for how it is being handled.

“I think there is something very wrong with cancelling out what’s a male and what’s a female. There is absolutely no way that a person who is any form of XY can possibly be an XX. There’s just no way.”

Jaman says she has been a Democrat voter, and was active in voter registration drives and anti-war protests in her younger years, but expresses weariness as to how this new push for ‘tolerance’ is manifesting.

“It’s darn-right confusing,” Jaman says. “I am from the old-school. I know what being discriminated is about. I know about human dignity. I marched against the Vietnam war. I know all about racial discrimination against people of color. I know about the need for tolerance … But I don’t get this.”

On her incident in the locker room, Jaman expressed some surprise when she learned Clementine Adams had only begun identifying as a woman within the last few months.

“I have been a woman for all of my 80 years. I don’t intend on changing. But it erases me. Because if that’s a woman… what am I?”

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