Letter was cartoonish and childish
John A. Quayle’s April 28 letter calls the Observer-Reporter editorial staff “cartoonish and childish” for their criticism of Curt Schilling’s views on bathroom choice. Look no further than Quayle’s letter if you want to see something that is “cartoonish and childish.” He’s got a mind like a steel trap – snapped closed once and for all, then rusted.
You can see that when he immediately starts talking about “perverts who want access to bathrooms of the opposite sex,” calling them “emotionally wounded reprobates with a made-up, phony ‘condition’ known as ‘transgenderism.'” It must be made-up, because “if science cannot find it in your DNA, it’s not real. It’s a mental problem.”
Yes, you’re biologically female if you have the normal 46 chromosomes and two are xx, biologically male if you’re 46xy, but what about people with 45X or 45y, or 47xxx, 47xyy, and 47xxy? And for real sexual confusion, consider congenital adrenal hyperplasia, androgen insensitivity syndrome, or true hermaphroditism.
Then there’s what psychologists call gender dysphoria – the long-term feeling of some biological males or females that their true nature is that of the opposite sex. This distress can even drive them to change their sex via hormone therapy and surgery. I doubt they go through this just to ogle people in bathrooms.
Quayle said Schilling, “like the majority of average, decent Americans” (bit of presumption here) “sees the harm in having swarthy, sweaty men declaring themselves to be women, going in the wrong door to watch little girls take care of necessary functions.”
News for Quayle: women sweat – pardon – perspire, and many are dark-complected.
It sounds like one of the double features in an old drive-in theater: “Invasion of the Swarthy-Sweaties” is a great title.
John Alfred Taylor
Washington