The Public Safety Issue That Isn't...Again

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6/25/2008

"Let's be frank, here. If there had ever been any documented examples of cross-dressed individuals attempting to use public accommodation laws in an attempt to cover unlawful predatory behavior, I'm absolutely sure we'd have heard about it -- it would be a very, very newsworthy story.

The burden of proof that this happens at all -- that crossdressing males going into women's restrooms constitute a real, documentable public safety issue in municipalities, counties, or states that have passed public accommodation laws, and that these allegedly existing predators used public accommodation laws as legal cover for their allegedly predatory behavior -- should be on the conservative Christians who claim it as fact, vice falling on us transgender people and allies to prove the negative; vice falling on transgender people to prove that this scenario hasn't been documented by somebody, somewhere."

A few years back, when I was getting an ordinance changed for my city, I did a search for this particular crime. A transgender going into the restroom to cause havoc. I never received anything that even remotely described a trans person doing anything in the restroom except do what they are suppose to do in the restroom. I had the use of the cities computers and the police computers and did a national search. Nothing came up. The religious right still thinks that something would happen.

Has it never happened?  I doubt it.  Face it, I'm pretty jaded so I'm sure at some point it has.  But, if you want kiddie Predators I'd check Youth Ministers, Priests, Boy Scout Leaders and Little League Coaches (the last two in particular if they don't have kids in the scouts or on the team.)  Dollars to doughnuts you come up with much more bad behavior with those searches then with CDs.