To the Editor:

I read with a mixture of anger, hurt, and dismay the letter in last week’s Enterprise regarding transgender bathrooms. Why is this person filled with such hate? I feel bad for her that she is this unhappy.

I am hurting for friends and strangers too, who are dealing with this hate every day. Her example of a person in the wrong bathroom for the wrong reason was silly. If someone has another motivation to be in a bathroom, they will be in there, and I would bet the farm that it will not be a transgendered person!

I could going on spewing hate and discrimination as her letter did, but I will rise above that level and ask only that she think about the words below by Yehuda Berg.

"Hurt people, hurt people. That’s how patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”

Deb Hext

Altamont