The former Astro said that males being able to use females’ bathrooms and locker rooms would enable predators to cause harm to women.
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“No men in women’s bathrooms, no boys in girls’ showers or locker rooms,” Berkman says in a new radio ad. “I played professional baseball for 15 years, but my family is more important. My wife and I have four daughters. Proposition 1, the bathroom ordinance, would allow troubled men to enter women’s public bathrooms, showers and locker rooms. This would violate their privacy and put them in harm’s way.”
Unsurprisingly, Berkman’s comments ruffled many feathers.
UPDATE: Berkman elaborated on his remarks later Friday in an interview with St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporters:
