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.

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 …