SPEAKER: Charlotte transgender ordinance "threat to public safety"; calls specia

[stephaniec]

SPEAKER: Charlotte transgender ordinance "threat to public safety"; calls special session

http://www.witn.com/news/headlines/SPEAKER--Charlotte-transgender-ordinance-threat-to-public-safety-calls-special-session-370964891.html

WITN/Posted: Thu 3:51 PM, Mar 03, 2016

"RALEIGH, NC (WITN) - Saying it is a threat to public safety, House Speaker Tim Moore is calling a special session to address Charlotte's transgender bathroom ordinance.

Moore says he has received requests from more than three-fifths of the House members to call the special session."

[suzifrommd]

Anyone else feel like being transgender these days is like walking around with a massive target on my back while everyone else is walking around with a rifle?

[Hikari]

Anyone else feel like being transgender these days is like walking around with a massive target on my back while everyone else is walking around with a rifle?

It feels more dangerous than it used to for sure, and I am much less open about it now that my very existence itself had been politicized.

[Deborah]

Anyone else feel like being transgender these days is like walking around with a massive target on my back while everyone else is walking around with a rifle?

Yes.  But their rhetoric is getting so over the top that more and more people are seeing them as fear mongering fools.  The fact that more and more big business are turning against them is evidence of this.  With that, and the fact that most American Christians love of their money is greater than love of their God, assures their eventual defeat in these issues.

[Eva Marie]

Here we go again. It seems like a lot of states are going to attempt to pass legislation like this sooner or later, and if it doesn't pass one year they'll try again the next year in the hope that sooner or later it'll pass.

What I believe it's going to take to stop these bills is to make the citizens of a state that chooses to pass these kinds of laws pay. If lawsuits get filed, corporate relocations happen, loss of tourism and convention dollars happens, and federal funds dry up the state's taxpayers would be on the hook for covering the state's budget shortfall. If the people of a state want to step back to 1950 and endorse bigotry then I think it's entirely fair that they should be willing to pay the cost of doing so.

Hitting a state in the pocketbook is pretty much the only way to get their attention.

[Devlyn]

Anyone else feel like being transgender these days is like walking around with a massive target on my back while everyone else is walking around with a rifle?

No, not at all. Things are getting better every day. I get no satisfaction out of playing the victim card.

Hugs, Devlyn

[Amy1988]

99.999% of all sexual assaults against women and children are committed by cisgender males. You tell me who is the most dangerous. The only pervert who is going to rape women in a restroom is going to be a cisgender male. I don't want them in the women's restroom either when I'm in there.

[Tessa James]

I feel this is directly related to our increasing visibility and success and the resultant need for some to have a "threat" to wag their fingers at.  Our emerging visibility and reality are felt as a refutation to regressive and intolerant edicts and worn out morality.  The real threat is from the intolerance and hatred that still seeks to divide and separate us by what is actually unseen.  Genitals=fear in an uneducated, simplistic and sex negative culture. 

People like the Speaker display an amazing amount of ignorance relative to who really is at risk and who really is a threat.  Rather than be the threat we are those at greatest risk for violence.  They even have a legal defense called gay or trans panic to assist in legitimizing their hatred and violence toward us.  Public safety?  get real, this is pandering to public fear and ignorance.

Our time has come to live honestly and free.  There is no putting the genie back in the bottle or any sense in trying to legislate their hatred and bigotry.  This will be seen as another milestone in wining civil rights and basic accommodations for everyone.  Love and family will prevail.

[Colleen M]

I feel this is directly related to our increasing visibility and success and the resultant need for some to have a "threat" to wag their fingers at.  Our emerging visibility and reality are felt as a refutation to regressive and intolerant edicts and worn out morality.  The real threat is from the intolerance and hatred that still seeks to divide and separate us by what is actually unseen.  Genitals=fear in an uneducated, simplistic and sex negative culture. 

People like the Speaker display an amazing amount of ignorance relative to who really is at risk and who really is a threat.  Rather than be the threat we are those at greatest risk for violence.  They even have a legal defense called gay or trans panic to assist in legitimizing their hatred and violence toward us.  Public safety?  get real, this is pandering to public fear and ignorance.

Our time has come to live honestly and free.  There is no putting the genie back in the bottle or any sense in trying to legislate their hatred and bigotry.  This will be seen as another milestone in wining civil rights and basic accommodations for everyone.  Love and family will prevail.

Indeed.  It's not that we represent a threat to the safety of anyone anywhere; it's that we actively do represent a threat to a fragile world-view which can't handle anyone being different.