Rep. Libby has every right to express her opinion on the participation of transgender people in sports competition. She has every right to bring this issue before the Legislature.

She does not have the right to publish a picture and name of a student whom she has endangered.

She and her Republican colleagues seem to claim that censure is due to her position and comments on the topic. It was because of identifying the student. They appear to be incapable of acknowledging that her identification of a minor was inappropriate and that the student and her family should receive an apology.

Republicans argue that women’s rights are being threatened by the state law transgender policy, but they refuse to support a constitutional amendment to guarantee women’s rights. Part of their argument is that their rights are written into law. Don’t they understand that the laws can be changed? Their rights should be guaranteed within the Constitution, not just by laws that can be changed.

I have to wonder how these legislators would feel if one of their children or grandchildren should be publicly identified without permission, if they should be involved in a politically controversial issue that could hold that child up to public ridicule, bullying and endangerment.

If this is what Libby believes must be done to present her position, she must not have much confidence in the argument or in herself to present her position without endangering a child.

Stan Tetenman, Poland