(April 15, 2016 at 7:27 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(April 15, 2016 at 7:23 pm)Losty Wrote: Personally I think a single bathroom for everyone is the best and safest and best option. Same for locker rooms.
There are predators in this world and they will seek out and attack their victims regardless of restroom laws and likely some place less public. The people most likely to be attacked in a restroom are transgender people. If we have one restroom for everyone with floor to ceiling stalls and security cameras (outside the stalls of course) you can't really get any safer than that.
And for anyone crying for your children...I don't know why you would let them go into a public restroom without you in the first place, but statistically they're more likely to be molested by a hetero sexual man than a trans person.
I don't think the worry is that they'll be molested by a transperson. I think the worry is that a hetero man who has a peeping fetish and is NOT trans will pretend to be in order to easily gain access into women's rooms to peep.
Why wouldn't a parent be there to make sure that doesn't happen to their child? Why would that be more likely to happen? What I really don't get about all the emotional stress is that people have been using whatever bathroom they felt comfortable in for ages and everyone is just now noticing.
We don't need a law that will make hetero men more likely to dress up and try to peep on ladies in the bathroom. We just need to not make laws that prevent everyone from using the restroom they already use.
Still, the floor to ceiling stalls would prevent any peeping by anyone. The way restrooms tend to be set up now (where I live at least) I stare at my feet the entire time in in the restroom because if you're not careful you can accidentally make eye contact with someone who's peeing or pooping and that's pretty awkward.