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Letters: Who gets to play bathroom monitor?

AP

With the spate of toilet “protection” legislation burgeoning about our beloved South, one wonders how the transgender exclusion laws will be enforced. Instant-read DNA scanners to unlock doors for the wholly qualified? Restroom attendants to perform on-site equipment inspections?

And what would the violation cite? “Inappropriate excretion,” perhaps?

As so many elected leaders have a creepy fascination with female reproduction issues, surely they have thought this through.

Ned Rowe

Little Mountain

This story was originally published April 21, 2016 at 1:25 PM with the headline "Letters: Who gets to play bathroom monitor?."

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