I would also point out that the ‘use the BR of your birth certificate sex’ laws (of the sort passed in NC) may well increase the likelihood that a woman will be assaulted in a Women’s restroom. Consider: Such laws require FTM TG persons to use the Women’s restroom. The result of this requirement would be an influx of very masculine-appearing individuals into Women’s restrooms. Given this, it would be all too easy for a male pervert, dressed in his normal male clothing, to enter Women’s facilities–he just has to say ‘It’s cool, I’m a FTM trans person.’
So with TG-protection laws in place, a male pervert would have to go through the hassle of cross-dressing before he could enter the Women’s restroom. But under the ‘birth certificate sex’ laws, all he has to do is throw on his ‘Free mustache rides!’ t-shirt and he’s good to go. Thus, if one’s primary goal is to keep the male perverts out of the Women’s restroom, the TG-protection laws are probably preferable to the ‘birth certificate sex’ alternatives.
About anecdotes, I’m one of the people who brought up the legal issues of “who can be in the restroom” and used my aunt encountering a peeping tom as an example.
I was just thinking about the Adam Walsh phenomena. When missing children end up on milk cartons, parents across America decide that it’s no longer safe for kids to play outside, or to be unsupervised EVER because it seems that there are so many missing kids. The actual risk of someone grabbing your child is very, very small but the presence of all those kids on milk cartons really changed public perception, and parenting practices. You became a “bad parent” if you weren’t watching them like a hawk 24/7.
Anecdotal evidence can have a pretty powerful emotional effect. None of us are immune to that. Humans have emotions, and we make emotional decisions.
Push, if I put up 50 examples of idiots who shot themselves in the hand, or even 50 examples of guns used in violent crimes…
Lots of gut feelings and common sense arguments are made. Guns are dangerous, it’s common sense! My gut feeling is we should make them illegal.
Everybody in my family owns guns. Nobody is violent. I took Hunter’s safety as a kid. My dad sometimes has to put down a sick cow… My gut feeling is that guns are safe. It’s common sense.
