(April 23, 2016 at 12:55 pm)Cecelia Wrote: My husband asked me a very good question.
Everyone is worried that some man is going to dress up like a woman and go into the women's room to spy on women.
...with the North Carolina laws, what's to stop a man from going into the women's room to spy on women, and saying "Well I'm a Trans-Male, I belong here" when he's CIS Male?
The same thing that stops them after the laws are made. Nothing. However, if the behavior of anyone in that bathroom, male or female, makes people uncomfortable, then they can leave the bathroom and call security, like we've always done. That's how we catch the guys who actually do that.
And how does a man go into a women's room to "spy on women", anyway? Don't they have stalls in the bathrooms for privacy?
It's like saying "What if lesbians look at me while I'm in there?"
The real problem is that they're pushing this "men are rapists" paranoia (along with the sickening, "what about the chiiiillllldrrrreeeen?" crap) in order to target a hated demographic, who have been casually using the restroom appropriate to their gender (not their sex) for decades/centuries, without anyone noticing. It will make the lives of actual transgendered people much harder without actually doing anything different to the perpetrators we're discussing.
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