ACLU Director Resigns after Daughters Frightened by Men in Women's Restroom

The millions of parents and students expressing concern over the Obama Administration’s extreme agenda to allow men access to women’s restrooms and locker-rooms now includes an unlikely voice: Maya Dillard Smith, State Director of ACLU Georgia.

The ACLU has been a primary advocate of policies that allow men into women’s restrooms. They have fervently supported President Obama’s bathroom and locker-room mandate. ACLU North Carolina is suing Gov. Pat McCrory for signing a bill that requires individuals to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their sex in state-operated facilities.

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A graduate of Harvard University and a self-described progressive, Maya Dillard Smith chose to leave her position as state director for Georgia’s ACLU chapter due to a personal experience with her young daughters that left them “visibly frightened.”

According to an article by the The Daily Caller:

The American Civil Liberties Union’s state director in Georgia has resigned after her young daughters were “visibly frightened” and concerned for their safety when three men dressed in drag entered the women’s restroom with them.

Maya Dillard Smith, whose resignation was first reported by LifeSiteNews, wrote: “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.

“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.

While Dillard Smith’s resignation from the ACLU is a strong indictment of the left’s efforts to allow biological men in women’s restrooms and locker-rooms, it tragically shows that the result of such policies is hurt, scared and confused children.

In her statement, Dillard Smith went on to say that: “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.”

A question we all should be asking is what would President Obama and other policy makers who want to impose this radical new gender ideology say now to these young girls with legitimate privacy and safety concerns?

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We all agree that everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, but no one should have to compromise their basic safety and privacy rights, especially in intimate and vulnerable environments.

Tearing down the fundamental distinctions between male and female is a drastic alteration of society that is bound to have negative consequences, especially for women and girls.