BBQ on the Brazos, a restaurant in north Texas, is causing a stir with a sign put up on the bathroom door. The simple, commonsense sign reads, “NO MEN ALLOWED IN WOMENS BATHROOM PLEASE.”
The sign has been up for a while but has gained media attention because of the recent controversy over transgender bathrooms. It is not a form of protest against Obama’s mandate allowing boys into little girls’ rooms at schools, but a sign of a real worry.
Here’s how it all started:
The controversy goes back about two-and-a-half years, said John Sanford, who opened the restaurant in 2013.
“Before this gender thing got started, there’s a truck driver who comes in here who occasionally has on jeans and boots or occasionally has on a skirt and 6-inch stilettos,” Sanford said. “He’s a pickup man for rodeos. [Pickup men guide rodeo riders to safety after they’ve been thrown.] The furthest thing from my mind was to see him in hot pants, a blouse and 6-inch heels.”
The sign was typed up, placed in a laminated cover and taped to the restroom door after several women who work at the restaurant and convenience store expressed concern that the man might use their restroom, he said.
“Everybody got together and said, we can’t have this guy going into the ladies’ restroom,” Sanford said. “I don’t care if he has on a dress or not.”
And that’s how bathroom decisions should be made, by the people involved, not the federal government.
I’d also like to emphasize the fact that “several women who work at the restaurant and convenience store expressed concern that the man might use their restroom.” Talk of women’s concerns about safety, privacy and comfort are pooh-poohed by transgender activists, but they’re real and they shouldn’t be ignored.
To the radical left, a sign on a women’s bathroom that reads “No Men Allowed” is akin to a “Whites Only” sign from the Jim Crow era. It is not hatred or bigotry, it is simply commonsense!
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