Life imitating Yahoo Answers again:
Seriously, I’d like to point out for anyone who thinks that this might be a reasonable idea somehow, that this is an extraordinary step (gender regulation in women’s restrooms has ALWAYS been down to good faith self-identification for as long as gendered restrooms have been a thing, even in the 60+ years between Christine Jorgensen making headlines for her successful gender reassignment and the Republican Party deciding to make trans folk the new bogeyman) to combat a stupefyingly rare phenomenon (I’ve looked up several cases where a man pretended to be a woman just to be a creep in women’s restrooms and I can count the ones where the man even actually claimed to be trans on one hand.)
Seriously, I’d like to point out for anyone who thinks that this might be a reasonable idea somehow, that this is an extraordinary step (gender regulation in women’s restrooms has ALWAYS been down to good faith self-identification for as long as gendered restrooms have been a thing, even in the 60+ years between Christine Jorgensen making headlines for her successful gender reassignment and the Republican Party deciding to make trans folk the new bogeyman) to combat a stupefyingly rare phenomenon (I’ve looked up several cases where a man pretended to be a woman just to be a creep in women’s restrooms and I can count the ones where the man even actually claimed to be trans on one hand.)
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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.