Paging Barbara Hall! Abused Women in Toronto Forced to Share Shelter, Showers With Transexuals

Celebrate diversity!

Toronto is like the MOST progressive, like totally in the whole world ever!

We r soKewl!

"Abused women living in a YWCA facility in North Toronto say they've been forced to share showers with transsexual tenants and cope with frequent, violent behaviour from others living there. Residents in the four-storey residence and shelter for victims of domestic abuse told the Sun repeated complaints about physical assault, harassment and verbal abuse have been downplayed, if not outright ignored by the YWCA. "

"The building is supposed to be women-only, but tenants say that there are often men who sneak in through a back door and stay overnight. Tenants also complain women living in the shelters often have to bathe in the communal showers with transsexuals. It's a situation the women say makes them highly uncomfortable and has led to conflict."

"(A transsexual) threatened one of the women from the 4th floor and when she went and complained to staff, they said she had to be patient with him because he's going through a sex change," a tenant said. "This person was massaging this Muslim woman's back and then when she found out this person was a man, she was upset. There is no disclosure."

This is one of those cases where Barbara Hall may really, really not know who to root for. So, Barbara, who is it gonna be? Whose 'rights' triumph here? The abused Muslim woman's right to not be massaged by a transsexual, or the tranny's 'rights' to be at a shelter for abused women?

"The YWCA insists the organization follows a non-discrimination policy outlined in the city's Shelter Standards, but said "this is made clear upon intake to everyone, also as part of a non-discrimination policy," said YWCA acting CEO Sally Palmateer. "

I'm making popcorn-this one is gonna be good.