Down the toilet
Transmissions
Published 03/24/2011
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&article=160 (http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&article=160)
Allowing transgender people to use bathrooms appropriate to their gender of preference will lead to pedophiles and rapists assaulting you, your spouse, or possibly your children.
This argument is used in every transgender rights battle over public accommodations, from early battles in the 1970s to the fight this year in Maryland over HB 235, the Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination bill.
Indeed, while this has been around for a while, it is only in the last five years that it has become the single most common argument used by the religious right to torpedo transgender rights bills.