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Trans rights are not ’bathroom rights’

Started by Butterfly, April 09, 2009, 07:38:14 AM

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April 09, 2009, 07:38:14 AM
Trans rights are not 'bathroom rights'
Bay Windows
By Sue O'Connell
co-publisher
Thursday Apr 9, 2009


http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=opinion&sc=editorial&sc2=news&sc3=&id=89456


But the transgender rights bill has nothing to do with men barging into ladies' rooms and attacking women. (And let's face it, the bathroom arguments are all about protecting the fairer and weaker sex from the male-to-female transpeople.) Laurel Sweet takes all the expected cheap cliché shots: "dude looks like a lady"; that other states have "flushed similar bathroom bills" -- funny stuff -- and then manages to miss the entire point of the legislation. Passage of the bill will not make it any easier, or legal, for male sexual predators to enter the ladies' room. It will simply allow individuals who are transgender to use the bathroom they feel most comfortable in, and in turn, won't make the other patrons uncomfortable.
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