To the Editor:

I once heard someone say, “Smile, things could get worse, and so I smiled and, sure enough, things got worse.”

The May 2 issue contains two articlesby Victoria Ford which contain more information than the general publicwants or needs to know abouttwovery well-discussed and highly controversial topics that, according to Gallup News dated January 2017, involve only about 4 percent of the population: transgender bathrooms and gender identity.

May 9, 2018