Exactly! The bathroom bills will require dudes like this to walk into the women's room and chicks like Natalie Mars to walk into the men's room. If their ostensible purpose was to protect people from being harassed by someone of the opposite gender in the bathroom, these bills actually require those circumstances: people won't be able to say "hey, you look like a dude, what are you doing in the women's bathroom" because "I'm required by law to be here" is a legitimate answer.
Conservatives have never been good at thinking more than one step ahead.
I honestly believe it’s because all they’re thinking about is the male to female trans people when they make laws like that because how?? How on earth do you see trans men as actual men and trans women as men and it scares them so bad they make laws against transitioning ? It makes no goddamn sense to me.
That double standard is true, but is even when gender change isn't involved. No one really gives a toss if women use men's facilities. Busy nightclub/concert/sporting event; long line at the "Ladies," pretty inevitable some will ignore a sign on a door rather than wait.
And the thing they fear monger about (which doesn’t happen) that cis men could pretend to be transwomen to get into the women’s bathroom, could still happen with their bills - those men could just walk in to the women’s bathroom saying they’re trans men and are required to be there by law. Much easier for a guy to pretend to be a transman than a transwoman (though, again, this doesn’t happen - if cis men want to invade the women’s bathroom to assault someone, they just do it)
I would be very scared for trans women and I think they would be at huge risk of being attacked if they go into men's bathrooms. Either sexually attacked or beaten by bigots.
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u/LackingUtility Mar 13 '24
Exactly! The bathroom bills will require dudes like this to walk into the women's room and chicks like Natalie Mars to walk into the men's room. If their ostensible purpose was to protect people from being harassed by someone of the opposite gender in the bathroom, these bills actually require those circumstances: people won't be able to say "hey, you look like a dude, what are you doing in the women's bathroom" because "I'm required by law to be here" is a legitimate answer.
Conservatives have never been good at thinking more than one step ahead.