ACLU boss quits after daughters encounter men in bathroom
Maya Dillard Smith , former executive director for ACLU Georgia" width="600" height="370" /> Maya Dillard Smith , former executive director for ACLU Georgia WASHINGTON – The late journalist Irving Kristol defined a conservative as “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” After the reality of letting men use the women’s restroom hit too close to home for a prominent member of the American Civil Liberties Union , there may be a new conservative in Georgia. Maya Dillard Smith , interim director of the Georgia chapter of the ACLU, resigned after her own young daughters were traumatized by having to share a bathroom with grown men. “I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults , over six feet [tall] with deep voices, entered,” she said in a statement. “My children were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of ...