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A 'Let Julie Swim' Sing-Along Event Is Scheduled For September 18 In Port Townsend

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A 'Let Julie Swim' Sing-Along Event Is Scheduled For September 18 In Port Townsend

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Matt Osborne
Sep 11, 2022
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A 'Let Julie Swim' Sing-Along Event Is Scheduled For September 18 In Port Townsend

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A fair warning to her enemies: Amy Sousa is never going to stop fighting for women’s rights to single-sex spaces.

Nothing will stop her.

Every time people around Port Townsend, Washington try to make her stop, “they just tell on themselves,” she says.

As we reported here at The Distance during August, Sousa’s community became a flashpoint in the gender identity wars when Julie Jaman, an 80 year-old woman, was banned from the city pool for refusing to shower in front of a man.

Sousa then organized a public press conference outside the city hall, which was mobbed and assaulted while police, acting under their mayor’s instructions, stood by and failed to intervene.

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As a result of that violent scene, the “typical strategy of villainizing the opposition” as violent right wing lunatics has not worked on her, Sousa says.

Although there have been painful remarks from supposed friends shunning her as a “TERF,” her enemies in town remain “confused about who they are dealing with.”

A former education director and drama teacher in the area, Sousa has organized a Sing-in for Women’s Swimmin’ on 18 September inside the Cotton Building, located right next to the place where she got mobbed on 15 August.

The 90-minute musical program will include gender critical hits by Mr. Menno, Vanessa Vokey, and Francis Aaron as performed by volunteers. Admission to the “uplifting songs and poems and prose” will be free.

This is “a playful invitation to all to stand up for women’s rights to free speech and free assembly,” Sousa says.

Although she expects that some people will come to glare silently, or otherwise disrupt the event, Sousa isn’t worried.

“They can’t stop the music,” she says. Just as they cannot stop her.

They have been trying their best ever since she first voiced her concerns about the erosion of single-sex spaces in a Facebook post in 2020.

They have smeared her, shunned her, and even unleashed a violent mob, but it was not enough. It will never be enough to make her stop.

“We will raise our voices for safeguarding, sex based rights, and single sex spaces,” she says. “We will not be silenced.”

Plans are to stream the event live, in which case we will cover it here at The Distance.

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September 18!! In Port Townsend!! Women’s free speech event! Songs, poetry, prose! For safeguarding, single sex spaces, & sex based rights! #LetJulieSwim #LetWomenSwim #LetWomenSpeak
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Here are some links to our previous reporting on the situation in Port Townsend:

The Distance
Woman, 80, Banned From the City Pool for Refusing to Shower or Change in Front of a Man
Watch now (3 min) | She was startled by the voice of a man while she was in the shower. Rinsing off after her usual laps at the Port Townsend, Washington community pool, Julie Jaman, a pillar of her community and mother of two adult daughters, heard a man talking. Poking her head out of the plastic sheet between herself and the man, she saw him wearing a women’s swimsuit, …
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8 months ago · 193 likes · Matt Osborne
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Why is this Man Allowed to Watch Girls Pee, Women Shower at the YMCA Pool?
Here at The Distance, we do not recognize any difference between a man watching your elderly mother shower and a man named Clementine Adams (seen above) watching your elderly mother shower, so we are not using his preferred pronouns. If this is too much for you to bear, stop reading now, go get your…
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7 months ago · 64 likes · Matt Osborne
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Angry Gender Activists Disrupt Speakers, Assault Elderly Woman to Celebrate Diversity
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7 months ago · 33 likes · Matt Osborne
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Mayor of Port Townsend, WA Gloats After Silencing Uppity Women with a Violent Mob
One of the angry men who heckled and assaulted a group of women holding a press conference in Port Townsend, Washington last night was holding a noose. One of the women he harassed was Gabrielle Clark, an African American woman. Today, the mayor of Port Townsend has been patting himself on the back for a job well done. David J…
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7 months ago · 24 likes · Matt Osborne
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A YMCA Policy Allows Naked, Erect Men to Expose Themselves to Naked Women and Girls
A fully intact man walks naked and erect through the women’s toilets, showers, and lockers, fully comfortable in his own skin, thrilled at the opportunity to expose himself to women without any consequences. A female shrieks. Or gasps. Possibly, someone complains. All of these people are bigots, subject to immediate membership cancellation because they h…
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7 months ago · 31 likes · Matt Osborne
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If 'Trans Women Are Women' Then Rope Loops Are Nooses
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS: Readers, I apologize. I try to be ruthlessly fact-based around here. We live in a world of disinformation and half-truths, mostly by accident, because everyone is reporting at a remove, so extra care and consideration is required when covering politically explosive event…
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7 months ago · 18 likes · Matt Osborne
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Mayor, Police Bear Responsibility for Port Townsend, WA Mobbing of Elderly Women
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7 months ago · 15 likes · Matt Osborne
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Salem on the Olympic Peninsula: Spectral Evidence in the Witch-Trial of Julie Jaman
Matthew Hopkins saw demons. His very first affidavit against Elizabeth Clarke attests that she summoned her “imps,” which then appeared one after another as spectral figures of two dogs, a polecat, and …
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7 months ago · 23 likes · Matt Osborne
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More Video of the Seething Mob that Assaulted Women in Port Townsend, Washington
Watch now (10 min) | When Dawn Land arrived at the Port Townsend, Washington City Hall on 15 August, an angry, “threatening” crowd was already waiting. It was 4:01 PM. “Their goal was to claim that space and fill the city council meeting with their people in order to prevent any of us from speaking,” Land explains. “Unfortunately, they succeeded…
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7 months ago · 16 likes · Matt Osborne

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