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Title: Jane Doe and Mass. NOW tackle the bathroom argument
Post by: Hazumu on March 03, 2008, 12:02:27 AM
Post by: Hazumu on March 03, 2008, 12:02:27 AM
by Ethan Jacobs
Bay Windows (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=70969)
Monday Mar 3, 2008
"The main argument advanced by the Coalition for Marriage and Family against House Bill 1722 is that it would put the safety of women and children at risk by allowing access to women's bathrooms and locker rooms by assailants claiming to be transgender. But two state organizations that are on the front lines of protecting women's safety, the domestic violence and sexual assault coalition Jane Doe, Inc., and the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), argue that such claims are simply fear-mongering. The two organizations released the following statement to lawmakers to try to put to rest any question that the transgender rights bill would threaten women and children:"
Bay Windows (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=70969)
Monday Mar 3, 2008
"The main argument advanced by the Coalition for Marriage and Family against House Bill 1722 is that it would put the safety of women and children at risk by allowing access to women's bathrooms and locker rooms by assailants claiming to be transgender. But two state organizations that are on the front lines of protecting women's safety, the domestic violence and sexual assault coalition Jane Doe, Inc., and the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), argue that such claims are simply fear-mongering. The two organizations released the following statement to lawmakers to try to put to rest any question that the transgender rights bill would threaten women and children:"
Title: Re: Jane Doe and Mass. NOW tackle the bathroom argument
Post by: cindianna_jones on March 03, 2008, 12:33:40 AM
Post by: cindianna_jones on March 03, 2008, 12:33:40 AM
Has anyone heard of cases where men posing as women have actually harmed women in rest rooms? I have never heard of such a thing.
I'm tired of the right wing preying on our fears. Sooner or later, our society will realize that the sky indeed is not falling and that there are no wolves lurking in the village.
Cindi
I'm tired of the right wing preying on our fears. Sooner or later, our society will realize that the sky indeed is not falling and that there are no wolves lurking in the village.
Cindi
Title: Re: Jane Doe and Mass. NOW tackle the bathroom argument
Post by: Hazumu on March 03, 2008, 07:03:39 AM
Post by: Hazumu on March 03, 2008, 07:03:39 AM
"Studies show that..."
What a great rhetorical line! It shuts us up because we're ill prepared to deal with it. And the conservatives just fill in the space after 'Studies show that', with the bogeymen of same-sex two-parent households, pedophelia and whatever else they are obsessing over.
I would really like to have a tool to research these studies they allude to, the discredited ones, the ones like the single-parenting studies that 'prove' same sex two parent households are detrimental to children, the 'studies' that 'prove' reparation therapy 'works', that women in showers are in danger from people born with penises, et cetera.
I would also like to have a list of the studies that refute their studies, that list the number of peers that reviewed those studies and found them worthy.
And I would like the list to have full citations so that I could say, 'here's the information, go look it up yourself'.
It won't change their minds.
But it might change the minds of those listening to the exchange.
Just a thought;
Karen
What a great rhetorical line! It shuts us up because we're ill prepared to deal with it. And the conservatives just fill in the space after 'Studies show that', with the bogeymen of same-sex two-parent households, pedophelia and whatever else they are obsessing over.
I would really like to have a tool to research these studies they allude to, the discredited ones, the ones like the single-parenting studies that 'prove' same sex two parent households are detrimental to children, the 'studies' that 'prove' reparation therapy 'works', that women in showers are in danger from people born with penises, et cetera.
I would also like to have a list of the studies that refute their studies, that list the number of peers that reviewed those studies and found them worthy.
And I would like the list to have full citations so that I could say, 'here's the information, go look it up yourself'.
It won't change their minds.
But it might change the minds of those listening to the exchange.
Just a thought;
Karen