School girls gaslit en masse after encountering 'naked man' in swimming pool shower

[quote timeisnotaline]**@OldCrone* @Mummyoflittledragon* the girls
Sports team event is December 2018 in Palm Springs, no charges were laid as the police spoke to the person and said they were transitioning. The nypost mentions an incident in Dec 2018 in West Hollywood park, a couple of hours away from Palm Springs,?Where ’Merager claims to identify as female so he can access women’s locker rooms and showers,” reads an internal flyer by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department that was sent to law enforcement departments in southern California in late 2018.’ If they were sharing that info in 2018 a 2019 article wouldn’t state police said all good, and the locations are quite different. I am not trying to be contrary but I think it’s important in these discussions to have facts and unless I have completely missed something this link is beyond tenuous and boils down to ‘2 similar things happened in Dec 2018 in the same state’[/quote]
Did you read the whole article @timeisnotaline? Near the end it says:

Then on Dec. 26, 2018, police responded to the Palm Springs Swim Center after the coaches of a high school girls’ water polo team called police. According to the incident report, one of the coaches said he aggressively confronted Merager after the school girls alerted him that Merager had exposed their penis in the women’s changing room.

“Merager advised he was only showering and did not masturbate or touch himself inappropriately,” reads the police report. “He said that he would defend himself if he is threatened. He said he needs to swim to do his physical therapy.”

Dec 26 2018 is the date of the incident in the OP. It's unlikely that there were two similar incidents on the same day at the same place, so this seems to be referring to the same incident.

The West Hollywood incident seems to be more recent (the article doesn't say it was in 2018), since he was due in court on Sept 8 of this year on charges of indecent exposure, so that's unlikely to be about an incident from 2018 (for which it seems he was not charged). He's a serial offender. He has exposed himself on a number of occasions in a number of places.

I'm seriously trying very hard to find it but can't remember which bloody group I saw it in. Still looking!

It was a Twitter post, I believe.

Just curious. From what I’ve seen they don’t discuss “gender euphoria” in public spaces where people “might not understand” (or, worse, might understand perfectly.) But there’s always someone pushing the boundaries.

no, that was genuinely what the TW posted.

@ThumbWitchesAbroad
Oh ok I wondered if euphoria was code…

Bu yes, you're absolutely right that it proves how little girls and women count.

timeisnotaline if you read down to the bottom of the NY post article you get to the Palm Springs report.

“Merager advised he was only showering and did not masturbate or touch himself inappropriately,” reads the police report. “He said that he would defend himself if he is threatened. He said he needs to swim to do his physical therapy.”

The NY Post article quotes the police report directly with the Wi Spa flasher’s unusual surname. They wouldn’t have invented that quote. (I don't think even the US Guardian office would do that!)

Well, that’s interesting. The argument sometimes goes like this:

Flasher is not prosecuted: that was just an innocent transwoman, bigots!

Flasher is prosecuted: that was a cis male pervert and he was prosecuted as he should be, what are you fussing about?

But this seems to be clear evidence of someone using the “innocent transwoman” defence to get away with exposing himself to female children on multiple occasions, eventually getting arrested when he pushed his luck.

Here is a mad thought. You don't have to be naked to shower. He could have kept his costume on.

@OldCrone @Mummyoflittledragon the girls
Sports team event is December 2018 in Palm Springs, no charges were laid as the police spoke to the person and said they were transitioning. The nypost mentions an incident in Dec 2018 in West Hollywood park, a couple of hours away from Palm Springs,?Where ’Merager claims to identify as female so he can access women’s locker rooms and showers,” reads an internal flyer by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department that was sent to law enforcement departments in southern California in late 2018.’ If they were sharing that info in 2018 a 2019 article wouldn’t state police said all good, and the locations are quite different. I am not trying to be contrary but I think it’s important in these discussions to have facts and unless I have completely missed something this link is beyond tenuous and boils down to ‘2 similar things happened in Dec 2018 in the same state’

But in all honesty I don't think it will go far until someone's child is assaulted/ molested physically.

But that has already happened in the UK.
It hasn't changed anything, which proves the rights and needs of women and girls don't count.

Thumbwitch
Just to get this straight, do you mean the tw had a erection?

"At what point can a parent start questioning safeguarding?
Given this is the US, at what point can a parent start suing?
There must be a tipping point or provision within legislation for this?"

Good points, all.
The fact that the man, if it is the same one, has now been charged for indecent exposure (or whatever the equivalent crime is called in the USA) shows that there IS a tipping point.
But in all honesty I don't think it will go far until someone's child is assaulted/ molested physically.

I saw something today from a FB group - a screen grab of a trans woman and a poledancing pole - his "gender euphoria" (ahem) is "x 10000" for being able to be in a class of women doing pole dancing.
Their joy at being in an all-female space is... concerning.

Sally hines and other pro gender types on twitter have been defending this person saying the previous charges sound like sex work and cruising criminalised.

Exposing himself to teenage girls is 'sex work' and 'cruising'?

This individual is legally recognised as female in California, which has self-ID for 'gender'. This is where self-ID leads.

From the NY Post article:

“Even if I was the worst person in the world, you’re allowed to access the facility [of your gender],” Merager says, adding that she is legally female in California. The state’s civil rights law prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression. However, Merager says the law is insufficient because trans people could be criminalized on accusations of indecent exposure for being nude in changing areas or spas.

Sally hines and other pro gender types on twitter have been defending this person saying the previous charges sound like sex work and cruising criminalised. They never believe the women do they? If Ngo's report is accurate then they are defendjn a serious sexual offender.

The last two lines of the NY post story:

“They’re having a tough time tracking me down. That’s good. They’ll find me when I turn myself in,” Merager said. Whenever that happens, Merager expects to be jailed in a women’s facility.

That's great then.

In my experience women do not tend to shower naked in communal showers or walk around naked in changing rooms. Anyone doing so would be viewed with suspicion.

Thanks for posting the NYP article.
The press are really leaving this story for Andy Ngo to investigate on his own. The rest of the sis it wasn't happening and risk the integrity of journalism tbh.

From the pov of the girls at the swimming pool, their coach challenged the person so they were backed up at that moment. But then the police took no action against the person because they said they were transgender and were allowed to use the facilities they were most comfortable in.
This shows how the law in califirnia works in practice, and its disgusting. The law is where the problem lies. I assume the only reason the wispa incident resulted in an arrest warrant was because enough witnesses said the person was erect.