Trans people are less safe when forced to use the wrong restroom, study finds

[Jessica_Rose]

Trans people are less safe when forced to use the wrong restroom, study finds

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trans-people-are-less-safe-when-forced-to-use-the-wrong-restroom-study-finds/ar-AA1zsN3j?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=4a0f8b3c7aac45809d4f1676346fb639&ei=4

Story by Arin Waller (20 Feb 2025)

According to a recent study by the Williams Institute, transgender people are more likely to face harassment when using restrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth, as opposed to their gender identity.

The study examines experiences in the past 12 months from both trans male and female participants who were asked if they ever experienced verbal harassment or were denied access to restroom facilities of their corresponding gender and sex assigned at birth.

In the study, it was found that around 10% of transgender men were denied access to and or verbally harassed in women's restrooms.

For transgender women, 7% were denied access to male restrooms, and nearly 9% faced verbal harassment in those same restrooms.

When it came to restrooms that matched their gender identity, around 5% of trans men were denied entry and around 7% were harassed verbally in men's restrooms.

Only 5% of transgender women were denied access to women's restrooms and more than 7% were subjected to verbal harassment in women's restrooms.

This portion of the study was conducted using data from the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey, which had 92,329 participants.

The Williams Institute concluded the idea that women are threatened by trans people being allowed to use the restroom is baseless. There are consistent reports from transgender people who have had negative experiences in public facilities perpetrated by others, including physical assault.

[Sephirah]

I conclude that people sometimes have a weird thing about bathrooms. And most people just want to relieve themselves, clean themselves, and get on with their lives. Anyone who harasses someone in a bathroom, there's something fundamentally wrong with them.

[Jessica_Rose]

In other news, a scientific study concluded that liquid water was wet.

Seriously, it's seems odd that someone even had to conduct this study. Of course now that there are 'numbers' to back up what we already knew, some will say the study was faulty or simply ignore it because it didn't come to the desired conclusion.

Love always -- Jessica Rose

[Sephirah]

In other news, a scientific study concluded that liquid water was wet.

Seriously, it's seems odd that someone even had to conduct this study. Of course now that there are 'numbers' to back up what we already knew, some will say the study was faulty or simply ignore it because it didn't come to the desired conclusion.

Love always -- Jessica Rose

I mean to be fair, scientists make most of their living from conducting questionably applicable studies, lol. Probably why we're getting hammered by diseases left and right. People are too busy studying bathrooms.