Swim or pee at your own risk

Ah, summer has arrived! Temperature warming up this morning and should reach into the upper 70s today with sunny skies. After many months of cloudiness and rain this is welcome news. And as each week passes with more sunshine and increasing temperature until before you know it the temperatures are into the 90s. And this means what? Time to hit my new found and very popular swimming hole on the East Fork Lewis River that's an almost an hour's drive (depending on the traffic) south which is so much better than going to a public swimming pool. All that reminds me of what public swimming pools were like in the past. And the latest round of elitism that's been hitting the golf courses.  What is it nowadays? An open society or a closed one? A "members only" or a place regardless of signing, speaking or hearing ability status?

I think there are plenty of room for people who have communication preferences regardless of hearing loss status in a community of deaf and hard of hearing people.  Focusing on whether people are "Deaf center" enough or not fosters elitism. This can get confused with pride. And to put into perspective for those who "qualify" would be allowed to go to a public swimming pool only that it is not so public to begin with. Might as well put up a sign that says this if one has to go to a rest room:

Just to be fair these things have gone the other way around, too.

At least there wouldn't be any misunderstanding on whose Deaf over those who are deaf and hard of hearing ("not so Deaf"), right?  But if you want to swim at a public swimming pool or need to pee at a public rest room there should not be a sign that discriminates in such a fashion, right?

I certainly hope so.