(April 13, 2016 at 12:07 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 13, 2016 at 12:03 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: In order to make an anti-trans law, you'd have to establish that it's actual trans people who are seeking to enter other bathrooms for the purpose of committing a crime, rather than just to pee in the bathroom appropriate to how they dress and behave and think.Not so. It depends on if there is a compelling state interest. If so, then laws that infringe on personal liberties may be enacted and enforced.
I'm well-aware of the "compelling state interest" concept. That's if the "strict scrutiny" test is applied, when a specific Constitutional right is to be abridged by state legislators.
You must, then, be well-aware that the courts found that (for instance) the states had no compelling state interest in restricting the private behavior of gays, in Lawrence v. Texas in 2004, despite claims of danger from gays, and morality needing to be defended by the state.
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