The City of Sandpoint might revise its nondiscrimination code this week after community outcry stemming from the YMCA's women's locker room.

According to a Facebook post from Bonner County Republican Chair Scott Herndon, a female lifeguard at the Litehouse YMCA saw someone she assumed to be a transgender woman in the women’s locker room.

She asked the front desk to remove them. YMCA staff said they couldn’t do anything about it per company policy. So the lifeguard called 9-1-1. The police allegedly also told her there were no laws being broken.

The post and subsequent misinformation caused community outcry that quickly reached Sandpoint Mayor Jeremy Grimm.

“The shocking piece to me was that the YMCA stated that ‘We allow this,’ effectively, or ‘this is occurring because of Sandpoint'

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