I am a woman who was born and raised in Lynchburg Virginia but I know reside in Bedford County, and I vote in every election. I oppose Petition 432. 

This petition is not about locker rooms. Even if it was, I would rather share a locker room with a Trans Woman who had been born a male, than with someone who thinks they have the right to demand to see anyone's private parts who they think might not be a person born as their presenting gender.  

There are real public health issues facing women and girls in Virginia, like domestic violence, maternal health affordable health care, proper mental health care, doctors who don't believe their patients and treat them differently when they're perceived as obese, and poverty. Do your job and support the health and promote the well-being of ALL people in Virginia. 

Across our races, backgrounds, and genders, we all deserve to be treated fairly. There is a nationwide effort by some politicians and interest groups to force transgender people and LGBTQ+ people out of public life. These political attacks harm us all, whether we’re gay or straight, transgender or not, because they foster discrimination and distract us from the real problems we face.

A small group of hateful, misdirected people think they speak for all of us, and I want to make sure you know that they don't.