Rise of the Bathroom Police
Ichabod's Kin
http://ichabodskin.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/102/[Massachusetts still is wrangling with a notorious bill that brings out all self-appointed guardians of morality. If you've noticed its head having been raised again in the news, read this post from last year for helpful background. Then ask yourself: when are we ever going to stop doing what we do to people we don't like?]
Spring of 2009 brought a bill into the Massachusetts legislature, urging upon the citizenry a curious restriction on use of public restrooms–designed of course to further punish and harass people whose only offense to polite society is to be different. Such legislation and its proponents are not to be feared, but resisted.
Here we are again with another issue that evades proper categories of "rights," "anti-discrimination," "harassment," and is plunged instead into that ugly little place called sex, one that Americans have the most problem thinking about, dealing with and discussing.
