Naomi Wolf

The issues that it raises for me legally are EOC law and also the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

So the 1964 Civil Rights Act, of course, was the law that did away with Jim Crow

with separate but equal accommodations.

And it basically said, in public accommodations, you can't keep a group of people out.

So the question for me is, if I, as a Brooklynite, you know, half the time, taxpayer in New York, were to walk into the middle of those men in that public park, right?

It's not a private space.

It's taxpayer-funded, that space.

Would I be allowed to use that space?

And if I'm not allowed to use it, if they don't part to let me in, right?

If they cordon me off or block me out, especially with my dog, right?

But if I can't join, if I can't make use of that facility, that is violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act because I'm not equal.

In my use of that space.

And in addition, I think Title IX and EEOC law are relevant because it's because of my gender that I'm being discriminated against in terms of access to that public space.

So those are the questions that I would raise rather than constitutional ones.

Not to my knowledge.

It's very...

kind of icky right like what the weaponization of islam does and it's so cynical is that it it forces nice people to make not nice arguments um even saying you're using your religion in a weaponizing way in a territorial way to create inequality or two-tier society is kind of a

Not the kind of argument we want to make.

We want to say kumbaya, everyone's welcome, let's all, you worship there and I'll worship here and then we'll have, you know, potluck together.

So to my knowledge, no one has, but you're seeing the beginning in New York of the establishment of two-tier access to facilities, two-tier policing, violence.