RELEASE: BCRCC Calls for the criminalization of “transgender” men in women’s bathrooms

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 19, 2025

In a well-attended meeting of the Bonner County Republican Central Committee (BCRCC) last night, committee members overwhelmingly called for a new criminal law banning men from women’s locker rooms.

The action by the BCRCC was a result of a policy of the Sandpoint Litehouse YMCA that allows men, as long as they pretend to be women, to use the women’s locker rooms and bathrooms at the sports facility.

On October 15, 2025, Sandpoint YMCA lifeguard Jennifer Hook discovered a man wearing a bra in the women’s locker room. When Ms. Hook reported the incident to the YMCA’s management, the YMCA defended the policy and pointed to Sandpoint, Idaho’s non-discrimination ordinance to justify the policy.

Though the BCRCC reviewed the city ordinance and found nothing in the ordinance that supports the intrusion of males into women’s bathing and changing areas, the repugnant policy of the YMCA demands changes to the ordinance to eliminate confusion and to Idaho law to enact new criminal prohibitions.

BCRCC members voted 27-2 in support of a resolution calling for corrective action by the Idaho legislature and the Sandpoint City Council. BCRCC members Dave Britton and Tom Bokowy of Sandpoint were the only two votes in opposition to the resolution. BCRCC member Andy Kee of Sagle debated against the resolution but then abstained from casting a vote for or against the resolution.

Resolution Highlights

There are only two biological sexes – male and female. Sex is determined by scientific facts and is unconvertible.
“Gender Identity” is a fraud being perpetrated on the members of the YMCA.
Men cannot become women by putting on a costume, getting surgery or taking medications.
Women’s locker rooms and bathrooms are sacred spaces that should not be intruded upon by men.
Women and girls feel violated and emotionally traumatized when men intrude upon these spaces.
Our criminal laws should protect the privacy and dignity of authentic females just like it does in the cases of indecent exposure and peeping Toms (privacy trespassing laws), which are both misdemeanor or felony crimes.

AS PASSED – RESOLUTION 2025-5:

Whereas, on October 15, 2025, lifeguard Jennifer Hook entered the women’s locker room at the Sandpoint Litehouse YMCA and discovered a biological male, partially dressed in women’s clothing, using that female changing facility; and

Whereas, the Sandpoint Litehouse YMCA confirmed that the events as reported by Ms. Hook did, in fact, occur; and

Whereas, the Sandpoint Litehouse YMCA confirmed in writing that it is their official policy to ALLOW men who “identify” as women to invade the privacy of the women’s multi-occupancy locker rooms and bathrooms; and

Whereas, the concept of “gender identity” is a fraud being perpetrated on the members of the YMCA by the YMCA’s management; and

Whereas, there are only two biological sexes, male and female, and once made by God, human beings cannot alter their scientific biology, which includes their parts and chromosomes that delineate the difference between the two sexes; and

Whereas, true women feel violated and traumatized by male predators that would invade their privacy, safety and security in women-only facilities; and

Whereas, the Sandpoint Litehouse YMCA has not taken responsibility for this invasion of the dignity of our community’s women, and instead they have blamed the City of Sandpoint’s non-discrimination ordinance; and

Whereas, the ordinance of the city does not actually demand that men be allowed to use women’s locker rooms and bathrooms but could certainly be used to manipulate good people to believe that; and

Whereas, Idaho’s indecent exposure laws and trespassing privacy (peeping Tom) misdemeanor and felony criminal laws are both not directly on-point to address this “transgender” fraud; and

Whereas, it is evil to allow the tyranny of a minority (for example, one man) to invade the reasonable privacy and security of girls and women.

Therefore, be it resolved, that the Bonner County Republican Central Committee condemns the policy, cowardice and inaction of the Sandpoint Litehouse YMCA’s management as it related to this repugnant YMCA policy and resulting incident; and

Be it further resolved, that the Bonner County Republican Central Committee supports the City of Sandpoint making changes to city code to clarify that such code does not provide cover for men to violate the dignity of authentic women in their bathrooms and changing facilities; and

Be it further resolved, that the Bonner County Republican Central Committee calls upon the Idaho legislature to immediately pass a criminal statute that prohibits people from knowingly and willfully using the multi-occupancy changing facilities, bathrooms and sleeping quarters of the biological sex that is not consistent with their own sex as defined in section 73-114 of Idaho Code; and

Be it finally resolved, that the chairman of the Bonner County Republican Central Committee will publish this resolution on the committee’s website, as a press release to local media, and will send this resolution to the Sandpoint Litehouse YMCA, Litehouse Foods, the City of Sandpoint’s mayor and city council, and to the chair of the Idaho Republican Party, the Speaker of Idaho’s House of Representatives and the President Pro tempore of the Idaho Senate.