Supporters held a rally on Monday for an 80-year-old woman who was banned for life from a YMCA-run swimming pool in Port Townsend, Wash., for demanding a male employee dressed in a women’s bathing suit leave the women’s locker room where she and others, including a group of little girls, were either naked or undressing.
“Any movement that preaches to women and girls to trust what the strange man tells you about his identity before trusting your own instincts is a predatory movement,” said Amy Sousa, a local psychologist and rape survivor who organized the rally. “To publicly vilify, slander, and shame her for this is unconscionable, and it is abusive.”
