Debate erupts at city council meeting after teen said she was ‘terrified’ to see trans woman in YMCA locker room

This Wednesday in Santee, California, residents packed into a City Council meeting to debate a local YMCA’s locker room policy after a 17-year-old girl said she felt unsafe when a transgender woman undressed in the women’s locker room, CBS 8 reports. The transgender woman at the center of the debate, 66-year-old Chrystynne Wood, spoke at the meeting and said she’s not a threat to anyone. Weeks earlier, 17-year-old Rebecca Philips said she felt “terrified” when she saw what she thought was a naked man in the women’s locker room at the Santee YMCA. Wood accused Phillips of spreading “lies and a …

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