Pop23
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From my understanding the controversy is about a law that was created to prohibit the use of restrooms of the "opposite" sex by a transgender individual. I haven't heard talk about a formal law to permit or allow it. The law was imposed by the governor of North Carolina and is being challenged by the Justice Department for violating civil rights...You present a good argument and I think it is a valid point to bring up in this discussion. You are ok with providing a system that helps include members of the trans community but you don't want an open door policy for males to use the women's room. That is a much better discussion than the male child molester argument that many are presenting.What game are you talking about and why do you really care which bathroom they use? The anit-trans people are going to have a problem if they confront a trans no matter what bathroom they are in... Many like Dipshit Bob are hopeless but there are many that get involved in these conversations that will actually take the time to learn about what the trans people go through and it will help their cause of being included and accepted.Honestly, I believe trans people are simply pawns in this little game.
If anyone truly believes they can have a couple of surgeries and be accepted as something THEY CAN NEVER BE, they seriously have very deep problems.
They likely would be less severe if they had guidance instead of enabling.
I admit I am totally weirded out by it. It is not something that I can understand or relate to. Same with the gay community... However, I have friends that are gay and they are amazing people, they are not mentally sick perverts. I sympathize with their cause and think they have every right to fight to live in a society that includes them... Same goes for the Trans community. Live and let live...
The problem is, as bad as I feel for these folks, pity can make horrible law.
Look, if you allow trans males into woman's restrooms, then you can't exclude any male. The males are similarily situated by any legal standard.
Then the answer is, we allow only trans or all males in. The former destroys the legal standard used for many many decades to stop discrimination and the latter is a political non starter and risks many equity programs that leveled the playing field for women and minority's.
Sure, it might sound altruistic at face value, but it's a very, very bad idea.
Safety is a concern, but I don't argue that much. It's the legal basis and the doors that would open (I prefer left shut) that concerns me the most.
If we do not have any lines that seperate men, from women, then what it the rational basis for programs like title IX?
I can't see it.
Risk that for a population already protected by Federal Hate Crime laws?
It seems that the risks far exceed the benefits.
So are you saying that support the type of law that NC is trying to impose or do you support not creating any laws on the matter?
Justice Department challenges North Carolina transgender law - CNN.com
The State reacted to a City of Charlotte ordinance.
That ordinance was arbitrary by nature.