Kathy Rago: Equality Act is an assault on women's sports and privacy

To The Daily Sun,

The mislabeled “Equality” act is an assault on your religious freedoms, women’s sports and women’s privacy to name only a few. Why are the democrats launching a war against women?

This bill will add sex, gender identity and sexual orientation to the 1964 Civil Rights Acts. How does that affect you?

For starters the act, in essence, provides that any man or boy addressed as female can enter the dressing room in a women’s store, recreational center locker rooms, and school bathrooms without restraint. There would be nothing that a state or city authorities, a school board or private business could do to prevent access. After all, federal law trumps state law. This law defines public accommodations and public facilities so broadly that the application is near-universal. This will also allow men access to women’s shelters and prisons, putting women in harm’s way.

Ask yourself, do you want any man or boy dressed as a female to have unlimited access to our daughters'  locker/dressing rooms, on overnight school trips or summer camp sleeping quarters?

This unEquality Act defines "gender identity" so broadly that a male athlete need only declare his identity as "female" and he can compete as an "equal" in girls sporting events. If enacted this bill will essentially end women/girls sports programs. You can say goodbye to scholarships for women who will be at a disadvantage physically in competition with men.

We must not sacrifice our girls on the altar of the extreme transgender movement. These scenarios are only the tip of the iceberg. Americans need to rise up now to make their voices heard. There is still time. Contact Sens. Hassan and Shaheen and tell them to vote NO on the Equality Act.

Kathy Rago

Franklin