An elderly woman has filed a $350,000 suit against her Washington city and its YMCA for barring her from a swimming pool after she objected to a trans woman using its women’s locker room.
Julie Jaman, 82, says Port Townsend and her Olympic Peninsula YMCA defamed and illegally banned her from the center and are seeking compensation for “emotional distress” following the July 2022 incident.
His lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon, a GOP official who runs the Center for American Liberty, sent the city and its YMCA a letter this week. 259-page complainturging them to pay and apologize or face prosecution.
Jaman was kicked out of the pool complex and banned after encountering Clementine Adams, a trans YMCA employee, in the women’s locker room and asking her to leave.
Julie Jaman says she has no problem with trans women, but they shouldn’t use women’s locker rooms
Jaman met Clementine Adams, a trans male-to-female YMCA worker, in the women’s locker room.
The case highlights tensions between trans activists, who say society must accept their chosen sexual identity, and women who want biological men kept out of their locker rooms.
“The unconstitutional actions of the city and the YMCA are the result of the left’s blind loyalty to the political agenda of gender ideologues,” said Dhillon, a Republican National Committee member.
“Instead of listening to a long-time customer and taxpayer’s legitimate concerns about child safety, the City of Port Townsend and the YMCA silenced and banned her for life, without due process. regular.”
City officials and the YMCA did not respond to DailyMail.com’s requests for comment.
In the letter, Jaman revealed new details about the incident, which led to a furious confrontation with Adams, other YMCA staff and the cops, leading to his ban and a series of protests which made headlines.
“I was taking a shower in the women’s locker room when I saw a man in a women’s swimsuit watching little girls undress. I had to speak up and ask for help,” Jaman said.
Since then, she has “suffered mob attacks, public humiliation and numerous false reports,” said the veteran of 40 years of experience in the community.
GOP bigwig Harmeet Dhillon has championed Jaman’s case and is seeking $350,000 in compensation for Jaman.
The Olympic Peninsula YMCA, whose pool is pictured above, said Jamal’s ban was the culmination of a series of “incidents” in which she disrespected staff.
After the ban, a protest took place outside the establishment involving trans activists and supporters of Jaman, pictured above.
“If it had been the 17th century, I would have been burned alive,” she added.
She now wants her “credibility to be restored,” she said.
Jaman says she was changing in the women’s locker room when she heard a “man’s voice.”
This came from Adams, who identifies as female, wearing a women’s swimsuit and accompanying two young girls.
“Jaman was surprised by Adams’ presence in the women’s locker room and believed she might be witnessing a crime in progress,” the letter states.
She asked Adams if she had a penis, and was told it was “none of her business”, so she asked them to leave.
Jaman told a pool staff member and Rowen DeLuna, YMCA aquatics manager, told her that trans women were allowed in the women’s locker room and that she was “discriminating against” Adams.
Jaman says she has since “suffered mob attacks, public humiliation and numerous false reports”
Adams raised over $20,000 online in 2022 for two sex reassignment procedures
She was told she was “banned from the pool forever” before DeLuna called the cops.
Jaman was described as having an “emotional reaction” and “screaming” in a police incident report.
Later that month, Jaman protested outside the pool and voiced his concerns at a city council meeting.
A #LetJulieSwim rally supporting Jaman the following month was invaded by transgender rights activists.
The city and YMCA then alleged that Jaman exhibited “disrespectful behavior” but did not identify the nature of that alleged misconduct, the letter states.
The two organizations waged a “high-profile smear campaign” against Jaman, publishing “false and misleading statements” to “make her appear bigoted and dangerous to transgender people,” the letter said.
Patricia Silva was banned from Planet Fitness after sharing a photo of a “man with a penis” who was using the women’s locker room to shave.
“This could not be further from the truth,” the letter states.
“It is true that Jaman supports maintaining spaces reserved for biological women. But she harbors no hatred towards anyone based on their gender identity.
Whether trans women can use locker rooms, restrooms and other women’s spaces has become a hot-button issue in America’s culture wars.
Conservatives are currently boycotting gym chain Planet Fitness over its policy allowing trans women to use women’s locker rooms.
Patricia Silva recently encountered a trans woman shaving in the women’s locker room at a Planet Fitness in Alaska. After she posted a video online about the incident and complained to management, her membership was canceled.