#glines

In a landmark decision, a judge in Xenia, Ohio, has found a trans defendant not guilty on three counts of public indecency for getting changed in a YMCA locker room.

Municipal Court Judge David McNamee, an appointee of Ohio Republican governor Mike DeWine, wrote that there is little dispute of the facts of the case.

The defendant, Rachel Glines, had been authorized by YMCA staff to use the women’s locker room and was never advised of any change in her access. Three witnesses testified that she was in the locker room in which she was authorized to be present. Janell Holloway, one of the witnesses, admitted she didn’t see the defendant but could hear her “breathing loudly.”

Judge McNamee wrote that the prosecution needed to prove that the defendant exposed their genitalia, and that the “facts as presented to the Court did not exist” to prove the charge.

McNamee further wrote that there was no question that Glines was in the locker room, but that she was not charged with trespass nor with being in an area in which she was not supposed to be.

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