Tendering her resignation, an African -American woman who led a state chapter of the ACLU, experienced first hand exactly why the transgender bathroom bill is not safe for children. The ACLU has been a strident voice pressing for transgender legislation, yet a real life situation, involving Maya Dillard Smiths’ children, has opened her eyes to “hierarchy of rights” within the ACLU, which puts her girls at risk.
Maya watched her elementary-aged children shake with fear, when three, tall, transgender men, entered the woman’s restroom. She said she was “ill-prepared to answer” their questions and their concerns for their own safety.
Maya Dillard Smith was the interim director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Georgian chapter. She describes herself as a progressive and says she is “unapologetically black”. She is a graduate of the Emerge America program which lists as its goal: “To increase the number of Democratic women in public office”. She worked on the California Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals while earning her master’s degree from Harvard.
She is a feminine force to be reconned with but one whose maternal instincts kicked in, altering her view of the transgender bathroom laws.
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Wake up people!
I’m glad she resigned, saw the light so to speak, but you already had a little girl…didn’t you think this would happen before it did. Now you child has to hold it, or you have to go to the bathroom with her!!!! Think first will you!
The ACLU started by a communist and wanted Americans to become communist, look it up it is true.
YEP ,,, THAT’S ALL IT TOOK ,,, FREAKING REALITY , SMACKING YOU ACROSS YOU STUPID FACE .
IT’S OK UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO THEM OR THEIR FAMILY !
Funny when it’s yours Ha ! Calling all who don’t agree racist & bigots. Feel only bad for the kids.
SHE SHOULD KNOW BETTER
Normal american mam!!!!!!!!
In a statement, Maya Dillard Smith, interim director of the Georgia American Civil Liberties Union, said that the “ACLU has become “a special interest organization that promotes not all, but certain progressive rights.” Her daughter’s interests are of lesser value than that of a transgender male and because of this, she has resigned from her post.
The “hierarchy of rights” the ACLU chooses to defend or ignore, she wrote, is “based on who is funding the organization’s lobbying activities.” She did not elaborate on the group’s funding.
This realization came to Maya in the ladies room, when she saw, through the eyes of her children, exactly what the transgender movement means to the innocent.
“I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults, over six feet [tall] with deep voices, entered,” she wrote.
“My children were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of questions for which I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer,” she continued.
This experience left her unable to go along with the ACLU agenda.
“I found myself principally and philosophically unaligned with the organization,” Dillard Smith said.
“I understood it to be the ACLU’s goal to delicately balance competing rights to ensure that any infringements are narrowly tailored, that they do not create a hierarchy of rights, and that we are mindful of unintended consequences,” she said in a statement.
“I believe there are solutions that can provide accommodations for transgender people and balance the need to ensure women and girls are safe from those who might have malicious intent,” she said.
She has already launched a website, Finding Middle Ground, created to provide a “safe space” where this discussion transgender bathrooms and the safety of kids can be had.
“How can we ask these kinds of questions without being called a homophobe?” the video asks. “How do we prevent predators from preying on kids in bathrooms?”
The website features a young black girl standing near a swing set, clasping its chain as she shares her own feelings. “I don’t want him to be uncomfortable in the boy’s bathroom, either,” she said. “I don’t want them to be uncomfortable anywhere. But what about me, too?”
More democrats need to do some soul searching and unite under Maya Dillard Smith’s newly found position.
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What comes around goed around. Karma!!
she got a reality check