A good solution: all-gender restrooms
Re: “DPS under investigation for all-gender bathroom,” Jan. 29 news story
I was encouraged by the article explaining all-gender restrooms installed at East High School. It is time to change from male and female restrooms to all-gender restrooms at all public facilities for two reasons.
First, transgender people are on the front lines in the latest culture wars. To deny them equal rights is another example of how many of us do not believe in DEI — diversity, equity and inclusion. It wasn’t so long ago that handicapped people faced the same resistance for equal rights and now they are fully accepted.
Second, we have had all-gender restrooms for as long as I can remember. Every summer my wife and I enjoyed outdoor concerts at many places. In many of them, rows of portable toilets were set up for people to use. Both men and women used them. I don’t remember anyone complaining about having to use the same portable toilet as the other sex.
So when I saw a photo of the all-gender restroom at East High, I immediately knew what I was looking at: high-tech portable toilets.
Ken Spooner, Littleton
Trump taking deportation plan on the road?
Re: “Trump suggests U.S. take over Gaza,” Feb. 5 news story
So now the president wants to take over Gaza, extending his mass deportation dreams to that forsaken part of the world? This will end badly.
As most of us pursue our daily lives, this same president and his unelected, unrestrained subordinates are shredding everything that America stands for, from the rule of law to amicable relations with our friends and allies.
I call on our fellow Americans in Congress and the judicial branch to enforce limits on this tyrannical behavior. You are the guardrails who were elected or appointed to preserve the governance of our republic in such a crisis. If you fail in this, the rest of the world will take action with incalculable results. At the very least, the United States will be sorely diminished when that happens. At the worst, we could lose everything that we and our forebears have fought and worked to protect and defend.
Your most fundamental responsibility is to restrain the ambition and sway of this president by applying the powers of your offices and our institutions while they still exist. You must not fail.
George Garmany, Berthoud
At the same time the United States has demonized immigrants and hopes to deport millions of them, we hypocritically expect countries in the Middle East to welcome millions of Palestinian immigrants with open arms.
If we intend to uproot Palestinians, it seems to me the only moral way to do that is to relocate them to the U.S. Then, once we have transformed Gaza into a world-class resort, we can send them back.
Dan Danbom, Denver
Wishing for vehicle license enforcement
My experience when I briefly had a temporary license plate was that when driving on a toll road (E-470) I got a free ride.
I point that out because I see a vehicle with expired temporary plates every time I drive anywhere. When police departments say they don’t have time to ticket these vehicles, they are making it clear that expired plates — like illegal fireworks — are not important.
I think they are an important symbol and wonder what it will take to make the people with expired temporary tags pay up. Can I slice off their expired paper tag without risk? Can we send a picture of the tag to the police department? Or are we as helpless as the police who follow their chief’s edict?
Roger Dudley, Denver
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