He also said Bruce Jenner could use any bathroom he wanted in his buildings. It’s his business, fine. But I don’t think that was too great for culture. I agree that he also came off as not wanting the mandate anything either, which was good.
“My impression is that he thought the law was an over reaction and would not accomplish its purpose, would cause government intrusion into the bathroom and have unintended consequences.”
The laws purpose was to restore the ability of private businesses to choose who to let into their bathrooms in Charlotte. It did that, to my understanding. It also required publicly owned bathrooms and other sex-exclusive areas to be used by their intended sex. It was just a reversal of the Charlotte law, so what is the matter?
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The matter as I see it is that having an unenforceable law encourages lawlessness. Its a corollary of the broken window theory.
If you mandate that people who are in a ladies bathroom must have a birth certificate that says male must we all have them on our persons or suffer inspection? If not than you have a law that is subject to abuse and arbitrary application. I do not want the threat of an inspection hanging over me. I cut down my air travel for just that reason.
There are already homosexuals using the same bathrooms as the heterosexual same sex cohort. There have been few incidents and those have been prosecuted as crimes. The laws exist to punish criminal behavior. There have undoubtedly been transvestites in bathrooms of the sex they appear for years as well, without incident.
I don’t believe that heterosexuals or transvestites are criminal by nature although there are criminals among their number as among the heterosexual group. I would favor targeting the criminal aspect rather than the genitalia.
The problem in my mind is the children at school who are forced to have individuals who they have known as the opposite sex suddenly appearing in their changing rooms and bathrooms. While I have compassion for the intersex child I have compassion for the other children as well.
The situation is awkward in any case and should be handled by the school & parents on individual basis without the intrusion of the State employees who have anti discrimination agendas. We are not allowing the local people the freedom to serve the children’s interests. The ability to sue to bring your same sex partner to the prom and to compete against opposite sex athletes is PC gone amuck.
People who are comfortable with societies norms are being targeted and attacked by people with an agenda. To me that is the real issue and a bathroom law just muddies the waters. The initial law would have backfired and the legislators would have been out of office. The American people are speaking out and the pendulum will swing.