I kinda understand part of the bathroom bans. Using Blanchard's taxonomy - I am totally okay with a "homosexual transexual" using mine or my daughter's restroom. I have far more reservations about a "heterosexual transsexual" with autogynephilia using the restroom while my daughter is there. Just to be clear, no super stoked about autogynephilia - seems to a stretch, but if it exists and is driving someone's dysphoria - then that raises an issue of consent. But regardless, I don't want a biological male who considers herself a "lesbian" around my child in a vulnerable setting.
Now, there's a question about governing. I don't really think a law, with the threat of governmental monoply of force, could handle such nuance. And I am totally against hurting homosexual transgender people via discrimination.
I know I am going to killed for this, but I just wanted to discuss this. Now tell me how I am wrong.
Please tell me other than a few very publicized anecdotes, where are the scores of transwomen trying to prey on young children coming from?
I would encourage you to reflect deeply on where this belief is coming from.
Pedophilia is not part of trans identity in any way shape or form. If men want to prey on children, there are far easier ways, like opening the door to a women’s bathroom rather than changing their gender, surgery, etc.
JK Rowling expressed the same concern and a few folks have reported a few anecdotes of transwomen assaulting ciswomen in prisons. The reality is, most transwomen fear violence and are more likely to be beat up or killed for using a women’s bathroom than to assault children, except for pedophiles, which make up a small part of any population (per the UCLA Williams Institute survey:
Gendered Restrooms and Minority Stress). So let’s accuse a marginalized group that experiences a much higher rate of violence from men than the rest of the population of being predators…
Should we also exclude men or from coaching children’s sports or being physical therapists, doctors, and trainers with children? Should we not allow men to be alone with children who aren’t related? I’m just broadening the argument here, because children are very vulnerable in these conditions as well but I don’t hear the same folks talking about transwomen in bathrooms clamoring for changes in men’s access in children’s sports or gymnastics, which have had some horribly egregious sexual assaults of adolescents and children over the years (US gymnastics’ Dr. Nassar to the tune of hundreds of girls over decades with no consequences for many years despite concerns being raised multiple times—no one is saying we shouldn’t have male doctors in women’s/girls’ sports).
Do anti-discrimination bathroom policies lead to increased sexual assaults? Several states have already had these laws on the books for years with no issues.
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Police and school officials say they haven’t seen [an increase in sexual assaults] either.
Media Matters, a liberal media watchdog, has asked state leaders, law enforcement and school officials in places with these protections whether they’ve seen any increase in sexual assault or rape after passing these laws, and they have repeatedly said that they have not. “We have not seen that,” a Des Moines police department spokesman told the outlet in 2014. “I doubt that’s gonna encourage the behavior. If the behavior’s there, [sexual predators are] gonna behave as they’re gonna behave no matter what the laws are.”
"It’s so hard to fight this because it’s such nonsense."
time.com
I’ve done my part in this thread, more than I should have. Your talking points have come from a very clear agenda from a particular group, speaking of agendas from earlier.
I’m waiting for your evidence to back up what you’re saying.
