(April 28, 2016 at 5:57 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Perhaps my thinking is overly simplified, but I don't understand where this was a problem that laws needed to be passed to begin with (at least on a public level). Just thinking of strangers who don't know each other, but it would seem that this would only become an issue, if someone who was clearly not the right sex, was going into the incorrect bathroom. If unsure, then I might raise an eyebrow, but would assume that they where going into the correct bathroom. Was their an issue that sparked these changes in bathroom laws? A shower room may be a little different, but I think that if you don't have the appearance of the right parts, then there is going to be issues no matter what.
Also I am curious what the penalty was for simply being in the wrong bathroom previously.
There has never been an issue about transsexuals going into the bathrooms of the gender that they identify with. As I posted earlier, more GOP lawmakers have been arrested for sexual misconduct than trans people.
Transgendered people are next on the hit list now the previous victims have stood up for themselves. The republican fixation with homosexuality only started once segregation ended. Now gays have managed to obtain equality, they've moved onto the next vulnerable segment of the population to demonise. This is a means by which they can win votes. For example:
Todd Kincannon, Former Executive Director of South Carolina GOP, Believes Transgender People Should Be ‘Put in a Camp’
e.g.
Quote:.@The_Illiterati I have no problem with gays but I hate trannies. I think they are disgusting freaks, and they are. Am I evil?
— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) October 6, 2013
I’m totally ok with gays and I celebrate female bisexuality as if it were the Mona Lisa of genital sports. But transsexuals are sick freaks.
— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) October 14, 2013
This is part of a wider campaign though. From the article linked above:
Quote:He later went on to claim that this was just an example of him trying to widen the “Overton window,” which refers to the range of political ideas that the public will accept. In other words, by saying, “Lock transgender individuals in concentration camps,” on might make the idea of simply denying transgender people equal recognition under the law seem more politically palatable.
