Comments on: The Battle for Transgendered Rights Starts in the Bathroom http://www.queerty.com/the-battle-for-transgendered-rights-starts-in-the-bathroom-20090112/ Free of an agenda. Except that gay one. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:48:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hazumu Osaragi http://www.queerty.com/the-battle-for-transgendered-rights-starts-in-the-bathroom-20090112/#comment-112604 Hazumu Osaragi Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:37:59 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=37241#comment-112604 If you're male and don't have Gender Disphoria, the thought of dressing up en femme and wearing makeup is extremely distressing. Most sexual predators are not Gender Disphoric, and wouldn't be caught dead in women's clothing, even to gain advantage. There are at least 90+ state, county and local ordinances that grant the right to pee in peace to transgenders, and those who don't fit neatly into the boy-box or girl-box. There have been, to my knowledge, NO incidents of sexual attack in a restroom where the attacker took advantage of these laws to pretend to be the opposite gender and thus gain entry. None. Zero. If it was so easy, why hasn't anyone tried it yet? I hope someone goes to a public meeting on this topic with some womens clothing, and dares the FundeVangelists to demonstrate how easy it is to enter the restroom of the opposite sex. If you’re male and don’t have Gender Disphoria, the thought of dressing up en femme and wearing makeup is extremely distressing. Most sexual predators are not Gender Disphoric, and wouldn’t be caught dead in women’s clothing, even to gain advantage.

There are at least 90+ state, county and local ordinances that grant the right to pee in peace to transgenders, and those who don’t fit neatly into the boy-box or girl-box.

There have been, to my knowledge, NO incidents of sexual attack in a restroom where the attacker took advantage of these laws to pretend to be the opposite gender and thus gain entry. None. Zero.

If it was so easy, why hasn’t anyone tried it yet?

I hope someone goes to a public meeting on this topic with some womens clothing, and dares the FundeVangelists to demonstrate how easy it is to enter the restroom of the opposite sex.

]]> By: DCDavis769 http://www.queerty.com/the-battle-for-transgendered-rights-starts-in-the-bathroom-20090112/#comment-112264 DCDavis769 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:27:56 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=37241#comment-112264 And thus the bad reputation for men named Cain continues. And thus the bad reputation for men named Cain continues.

]]> By: Pragmatist http://www.queerty.com/the-battle-for-transgendered-rights-starts-in-the-bathroom-20090112/#comment-112209 Pragmatist Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:27:26 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=37241#comment-112209 I might be tarred and feathered for saying this, but I don't really think the ad is "sickening." It doesn't really attack transgendered people or their gender identity. It's really just a typical kind of silly scaremongering ad. The ad just poses the argument that, theoretically, the ordinance eliminates sex segregation in restrooms because anyone could falsely claim to have an opposite-sex identity. Technically, that's true; there is no objective way of knowing. The problem with all of this is that "Citizens for Good Public Policy" isn't really worried that the law will be abused, because, really, how often would that happen? It's just a disingenuous way to attack a law that represents social values they don't like. Which, in the end, is pretty typical American politics after all. I might be tarred and feathered for saying this, but I don’t really think the ad is “sickening.” It doesn’t really attack transgendered people or their gender identity. It’s really just a typical kind of silly scaremongering ad.

The ad just poses the argument that, theoretically, the ordinance eliminates sex segregation in restrooms because anyone could falsely claim to have an opposite-sex identity. Technically, that’s true; there is no objective way of knowing.

The problem with all of this is that “Citizens for Good Public Policy” isn’t really worried that the law will be abused, because, really, how often would that happen? It’s just a disingenuous way to attack a law that represents social values they don’t like. Which, in the end, is pretty typical American politics after all.

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