(April 13, 2016 at 12:51 pm)Drich Wrote:(April 13, 2016 at 12:31 pm)BlackBird Wrote: Ah yes, the majority rules. Screw all the minorities!
Society benefits by not stomping all over contributing members of society who are just trying to live their lives.
And again, I fail to see how these bathroom laws protect anyone to begin with. Remind me how requiring transitioning men (who often look like any other man) to use the women's bathroom is protecting women from predators again?
again now frame what I said in the context of the op.
Should a mentally Ill minority that = > 1% dictate policy (circumventing the due process laws normally go through) for the other 99% of the population?
Should anyone making a law circumventing due process? Of course not. But I'm not seeing any circumventing of due process. If you are speaking of the economic pressure that is being put on legislators to rethink the bills they are passing, that is a) not pressure applied solely by transpeople, but by lots of people who think the law is terrible, b) perfectly legal and c) a time honored aspect of our government. Government officials are rather well known for following the money, and they are supposed to be listening to their constituents, after all.