Readers share views on LGBT issues, Donald Trump, Kris Kobach

Fitting-room woes

After solving the non-issue of transgender children using the appropriate bathrooms, lawmakers should now turn their attention to the very real invasion of privacy caused by adult men lurking around women’s fitting rooms.

I’m referring to men of all ages who walk into women’s fitting rooms ostensibly to see their wives or girlfriends, leaving other women to cower behind flimsy louvered doors in various stages of undress.

I mentioned this to a salesclerk who said she’s stopped men and offered to bring in a different size or zip up a dress, and the men say, “But that’s my wife in there.”

The clerk had to explain the obvious, which is there are other women in the fitting room who are not your wife.

Some retailers have set up fitting-room areas with televisions tuned to sports to lure men. Instead, retailers should provide a separate family fitting-room area.

Stores have cut back on staff, so women, bring another female with you to fetch other sizes or provide helpful opinions.

Or, if you need your husband’s or boyfriend’s input, buy the garment and take it home for approval.

Mary Rochelle

Overland Park

Electoral goofs

President Donald Trump? Please remember Gov. Jesse Ventura and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Edward Acosta

Olathe

GOP platform

Wow. I was basically speechless when I read about the Republican platform (7-14, A7, “Kris Kobach contributes greatly to Republican national platform”).

How did the Republicans successfully go backward? Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus called the GOP “the party of the open door.” Did he not read the platform?

Only conservative Christians with traditional families need apply. And don’t forget your guns.

Susie Rawlings

Leawood

Promoting Trump

Republicans are starting to use their new campaign slogan, “I am not a racist, but I support Trump.”

Joe Hodnik

Olathe

Middle-class woes

I was born in August 1938, so next month I’ll have my 78th birthday. I was honored and proud to serve my country in four years of active duty in the U.S. Navy, from which I received an honorable discharge.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, I was being raised in a country that believed in the American dream for the people in the middle class and the less fortunate of our society. Then in 1980, when Ronald Reagan became president, the Republicans diminished the American dream by reducing the clout of the unions.

Organized labor enabled working people to be paid fair wages.

Reducing unions’ power and ranks aided corporations, giving them more control over the middle class. President Reagan caused working people to pay taxes on unemployment, which some workers received on seasonal layoffs. Reagan also took other benefits from workers.

Our Congress today is aiding greedy corporations and the wealthiest 10 percent of America and placing the middle class, elderly, veterans and poor out of their homes and into the streets while Congress basks in luxury and continues to cheat and lie.

Terrance R.

Hawbaker

Atchison, Kan.

Paying down debt

If everyone who has an annual income over the poverty level would volunteer to give half of 1 percent of their gross income to Kansas and half of 1 percent to our federal government for one year to be used for reduction of the national and state debts only, imagine how much would be raised.

This would give more time for our president, governor and legislators to help the schools, hospitals and other organizations to come up with better funding systems. It would be a way to avoid a shutdown.

The public can take only so much politics.

I am sure this would have to be voted on, but for my part, I am glad we live in this country of reasonable freedoms.

It would have to be on a volunteer basis, and people do not want to part with their wages. But think of what it would cost to pay for your own streets, fire and police, and many other services you take for granted.

Our nation’s way may not be the only way, but God bless America.

William F. Pierce

Wichita

Trump University

Now we know. Plagiarism is tolerated and encouraged at Trump University.

Robert Busch