I didn’t call “you” idiotic but I do find your statement: “but the lesson is at no age should a female be unaccompanied in a public restroom” to be idiotic. Sorry if I offended you, however as a woman I am offended by that statement.
The inference of your statement is a that a full grown adult woman going into any public restroom without being accompanied by someone else is somehow at fault if some male perv is in there (where he doesn’t belong FWIW) because she shouldn’t have been in there alone, not having been accompanied by a “bathroom buddy” in the first place. Is that really your position? That’s like saying that women who are victims of car jackings are somewhat at fault because they made themselves vulnerable because they shouldn’t have been out driving in a car by themselves.
Laws about bathrooms will only PREVENT a crime IF there is a monitor to keep the person out. Otherwise we already have laws that make rape or sexual contact with a child a crime in any location.
No laws that I know of PREVENT any crime. Armed robbery is against the law. But I don’t know how the law against armed robbery prevents it from happening, so then why bother. I guess the only way to PREVENT armed robberies would be to have monitors to keep any potential armed robbers out of the places they might rob, strip search them for weapons perhaps? Since that’s not practical, then why even bother.
As a resident of NC I am familiar with the situation, have and will vote for McCrory, but a law must have a means to enforce to be effective. Again who will monitor and if harm is done laws are already on the books.
No. I don’t think you do. The law passed by Charlotte City Council said that that all public facilities (public AND private) should allow people to use the bathroom or locker room corresponding to their ”gender identity”.
So if I owned a business, say for instance a women’s only gym in Charlotte, under the ordinance they passed it would be illegal for me to keep out men; and I am not talking only about a convincing looking “trannie”, a la a Ru Paul type, but a big burly hairy man, someone not even attempting to convincingly pass or dress as a woman, perhaps even someone with a prior history of assaulting females such as the ones Travis noted in his links, out of the women’s restrooms and locker rooms at my place of business. It would be discrimination for me to deny them and I could be sued if this man now says he “identifies” as a woman.
The NC law overturned the rule, stating that public accommodation policy can only be established at the state level. It also said usage of bathrooms and other vulnerable areas in public schools and government buildings must be done according to the sex on a person’s birth certificate. It made no demands of businesses and allows them to adopt their own policies.
So if a company such as Target wants to adopt an “anyone can use whatever restroom that matches their gender identity” they still can (and I can choose not to patronize them) and if at my place of business, if I adopt a policy of “if you are obviously a man, regardless of how you choose to identify yourself”, you can’t go into the lady’s room or use our gym or use our woman’s locker room at my place of business, I can. I guess if I owned such a business, I would be within my legal rights to ask for BC if I choose to.
Once again: “If a biological male can use whatever restroom that he wants to use at the time based on how he “identifies” at any given time, then no one could really question why he was there in the first place.”
The point is, and yes I agree it is not at all practical to monitor and screen all rest rooms for someone’s gender, however when a biological male is in one and if he commits an act of voyeurism or commits a sexual assault against a female, the fact that HE was in there in the first place goes to motive. Any law that allows HIM to be in there in the first place based on “how he identifies” takes away the motive part of any prosecution.
Again thanks for the insult, typical though I guess.
Perhaps you need to retreat to your “safe space” where any criticism or and honest discussion regarding your opinions is not allowed.
Excellent post.