RE: What is it about Trump that has allowed him to acquire so many ardent followers?
June 18, 2019 at 4:58 pm
Looking at your sources for the transgender bathroom scare.
NBC news story about gender fluid assault in Georgia: not finding much more information than what is in the story. Could be accurate, could not be. Bizarrely, despite the Trump administration promising to investigate this, not a word has come up since October.
Lifesite news story about 10-year-old in England getting assaulted: seems to be legit, but bear in mind (my source was the Courier article cited by the lifesite one): the assailant was a pedophile who had done other creepy shit in the past; this might be a bigger red flag than transgender identity.
Canoe article about drag-wearing voyeur in Greenville: absolutely nothing I found suggested that Shawn Hallett played the gender identity card.
Casper Star-tribune article about assault in Yosemite: not only is there no indication that Jackson Coombs ever identified as transgender, but I can’t find any indication he even bothered to dress in drag.
This leads me to a major point you utterly fail to take into account: if you want to stop women and girls from being sexually assaulted in bathrooms, keeping trans women out will do nothing to stop that. You’ve managed to find one corroborated story (exactly one of two I’ve ever found) that fits the “transgender person using their identity to invade women’s spaces to assault them” narrative. And it’s worth noting that in both confirmed cases, the assailants had some serious issues beyond their gender identities. You know what I’ve heard about more than twice, however? Women being assaulted in the ladies’ rooms by men not even trying to present as female. Here’s one example as related by a someone who went through it.
I’m not going to pretend that every trans person is truly blameless, but given how few cases of this particular claim hold up to scrutiny, I seriously have to ask: is this really worth denying an entire group of people the right to take a leak outside their own homes?
NBC news story about gender fluid assault in Georgia: not finding much more information than what is in the story. Could be accurate, could not be. Bizarrely, despite the Trump administration promising to investigate this, not a word has come up since October.
Lifesite news story about 10-year-old in England getting assaulted: seems to be legit, but bear in mind (my source was the Courier article cited by the lifesite one): the assailant was a pedophile who had done other creepy shit in the past; this might be a bigger red flag than transgender identity.
Canoe article about drag-wearing voyeur in Greenville: absolutely nothing I found suggested that Shawn Hallett played the gender identity card.
Casper Star-tribune article about assault in Yosemite: not only is there no indication that Jackson Coombs ever identified as transgender, but I can’t find any indication he even bothered to dress in drag.
This leads me to a major point you utterly fail to take into account: if you want to stop women and girls from being sexually assaulted in bathrooms, keeping trans women out will do nothing to stop that. You’ve managed to find one corroborated story (exactly one of two I’ve ever found) that fits the “transgender person using their identity to invade women’s spaces to assault them” narrative. And it’s worth noting that in both confirmed cases, the assailants had some serious issues beyond their gender identities. You know what I’ve heard about more than twice, however? Women being assaulted in the ladies’ rooms by men not even trying to present as female. Here’s one example as related by a someone who went through it.
I’m not going to pretend that every trans person is truly blameless, but given how few cases of this particular claim hold up to scrutiny, I seriously have to ask: is this really worth denying an entire group of people the right to take a leak outside their own homes?
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
