If it's got a dick, use the men's room. If it's got a vagina, use the women's room. How it makes them "feel" doesn't matter in the slightest.
15000000000000000000000000000% correct. absolutely correct.
this makes it LEGAL for anyone, regardless of sex, to enter either restroom without being questioned. You, onefor, can walk into the men's room wearing a pantsuit. a man can walk into the women's room wearing an NBA jersey and jorts. you CANNOT question this now. nor even consider that something is amiss until a crime occurs.
You have some solid ideas, del.
But interesting how I have seen anyone answer the question I posed - why is the President of the United freaking States giving orders about bathroom usage???
A better question might be why is it any business of any government's where or how I pee, as long as I'm not infringing on anyone else.
There never was a strict definition to enter. I promise you, you have gone to the bathroom next to transgendered people before, and so have I. You have gone to bathroom next to gay guys and I have gone to the bathroom next to lesbians. It didn't bother any of us a bit. Now suddenly we need a law protecting us from something that never harmed us in the first place.Well that's just stupid.
For as long as we've had public bathrooms we have segregated men and women. Legally. And while I can't really think of the statute or law I would be breaking if I started just deciding to use women's bathrooms all the time, I would get in some kind of trouble. Or kicked out of the public place/business I was at.
So don't make this sound like it's new. It's not.
The truth is a women's bathroom was somewhat (maybe entirely) created as a "safe space" for women to do something much of our culture still considers very private and stigmatizes to some degree. It is a place they know they can go and be completely separate form men. Period.
That has now changed.
A women's room is no longer that. It is anything because there is no longer a strict definition required to enter.
I think it's a HUGE leap both in definition, cultural norms, the definition of "sex" and "privacy" and what defines privacy from the opposite sex and if that's even protected anymore (of if we even need to have it).
There never was a strict definition to enter. I promise you, you have gone to the bathroom next to transgendered people before, and so have I. You have gone to bathroom next to gay guys and I have gone to the bathroom next to lesbians. It didn't bother any of us a bit. Now suddenly we need a law protecting us from something that never harmed us in the first place.
You're equating a transgendered person using a public bathroom with a peeping tom...they are not the same thing.
Pure speculation and conjecture. But carry on with the hysterics festival, you seem to be enjoying it.
This is a gender thing, not a privacy thing. PUBLIC bathrooms were always PUBLIC. It's not the same as your house. There are things you can do in your house that are illegal to do in public bathrooms. Also, you have no right to public bathrooms.
Oh, the entitlement!
The point of the links is that banning transgendered people from using women's bathrooms doesn't prevent children from being assaulted in bathrooms. People don't have to disguise themselves to assault other people. Heck, if a girl's alone in a public bathroom a MAN can walk into the bathroom dressed as a MAN and assault her. It's already illegal whether he's dressed as a man or dressed as a woman.
Seattle-based transgender rights activist Johanna Wolf has been among the most vitriolic in her responses to privacy activists, claiming that it’s only their “hatred” and “bigotry” that is trying to keep her and others out of the locker rooms and showers.
Recently we have discovered that Johanna used to be a man, Jonathan Adrian Wolf, who is a sex-offender convicted of raping a 20-year old deaf girl in Nebraska in 2006.
Why is this relevant?
Because a sex-offender is now seeking access to a woman’s locker room through this open bathroom policy.
Wolf, now identifying as a woman (view the name change document here), appears to be shocked and offended that people in Washington want to take away “her” rights to use the locker room and shower of “her” choice
You just put your hands over your eyes and discount the countless stories posted and out there for you to read and acknowledge.
On the contrary, what's being discounted is the BILLIONS, if not HUNDREDS of BILLIONS, of people using public bathroom in the same time period without any crime being committed whatsoever.
Perspective: the bane of hysteria
Interesting opinion. I guess we can apply this same train of thought to other issues as well.
What train of thought? It's perspective.
so this perspective can be applied to other issues.
Since you seem to be willing to have us all assume some risk, no matter how miniscule it may be, of enhanced access to public toilets, showers, etc., (because, freedom), are you also willing to have us all (and by us I mean you, me, everyone) assume some miniscule risk and permit an openly armed public (which is a right that actually IS acknowledged in our Constitution)?
But what's at issue here to me is not whether one chooses to look at dick in the bathroom but whether one who chooses to show dick to others has now had at least some of the former barriers to doing so removed.
Those who believe they are wrongly gendered are not normal. It's in your head. In the end that's it. Your head is what's wrong, not the rest of your body. Why does the rest of normal society have to accommodate YOU?
Why make it easier?