American Muslim Women Are Fighting For The Freedom To Swim

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14. I've seen people kicked out of this kind of facility.

For wearing shorts or t-shirts. These were non-immigrant, not obviously Muslim people, both adults and children, and mostly sporting all the secondary sex characteristics of maleness (or, if pre-pubescent, showing traditional male-child behavior or clothing).

I've had staff, when I was wearing a t-shirt and cutoffs (because I didn't have a bathing suit) warn me when I was just sitting there, legs dangling in the water, warn me "no bathing suit, no swimming." And they didn't mean swimming in the buff, either. I'm neither immigrant nor Muslim. Nor female.

The claim has been that bathing suits don't produce lint or perhaps just not as much. Lint, they said (in a few different places) clogs their filtration system. Since it was a few different, unconnected places, I figure either it's a common myth or just possibly the truth and accurate.

So there's anecdotal evidence for the possibility that the other opinion is right.