I have an idea. Educate yourself on the biology behind transgender issues.
Here are a few good articles that will enlighten people on why laws to bar transgender people from using the public bathrooms they identify with are ignorant, cruel, and vindictive.
Understanding Transgender
Biologists tell us that sex is a complicated matter, much more complex than what we may have been taught in school. A person has XX chromosomes is generally considered female, while a person with XY chromosomes is generally considered male. However, there are also people who have XXY, XYY, and other variations of chromosomes; these genetic differences may or may not be visibly apparent or known to the person. Some people are born with XY chromosomes, but are unable to respond to testosterone and therefore develop bodies with a vagina and breasts, rather than a penis and testes. A variation in gender may just be part of the natural order and there are more varieties than we generally realize. People with biological differences in gender may be considered intersex; they may or may not identify as transgender. There are medical theories about why people are transgender. Some
Transgender bathrooms, evolution, climate change, and the Ten Commandments
Men's Restroom or Women's? Nature Is Never That Simple
"All human embryos are equipped with the starter kits for both male and female sexual anatomy. Every part on the male body has an analogous part on the female body. The starter kit includes something called a genital tubercle. Whether it eventually becomes a penis is determined by a multistep process."
This is for all those pearl-clutchers (and Anonymous commenters who come here) who endlessly obsess over transgender people going into the men's and women's public bathrooms to prey on little boys and girls:
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I have advise for you, educate yourself on bathroom child molestation, which you obviously know nothing about.
They seem to confuse drag queens and transvestites (neither of which group has the level of pedophiles that straight white men has) with transgender people and there's simply no getting facts and reality into a right wing head. Too much cement and no ability to learn......
"I have an idea. Educate yourself on the biology behind transgender issues."
Ha ha ha ! There is a reason democrats are better educated than republicans.
And since he can be recgonized he can just diguise himself as a woman
To Anonymous @9:21. You keep coming here implying that there's a real problem with transgender people and the molestation of children in public bathrooms, and you don't back up those implications with any facts. Therefore, what you wrote is nothing more than an uninformed opinion. And you know what they say about opinions.
I'll go with this, since these folks have done the research, unlike you:
Spokespeople from the Transgender Law Center, the Human Rights Campaign and the American Civil Liberties Union told Mic that no statistical evidence of violence exists to warrant this legislation. Vincent Villano, the director of communications for the National Center for Transgender Equality, told Mic in an email that there isn't any firm data to corroborate these lawmakers' claims, and that NCTE has "not heard of a single instance of a transgender person harassing a non-transgender person in a public restroom. Those who claim otherwise have no evidence that this is true and use this notion to prey on the public's stereotypes and fears about transgender people."
The Advocate noted the same glaring fact last month regarding Texas' bathroom legislation: "There has never been a verifiable reported instance of a trans person harassing a cisgender person, nor have there been any confirmed reports of male predators 'pretending' to be transgender to gain access to women's spaces and commit crimes against them."
Alachua County Crisis Center victims advocate Ashley Flattery told the Miami Herald, "This kind of idea that somebody is going to be assaulted in the bathroom by someone, and claim they have the right to be there because they are trans, is imaginary."
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Either back up your opinion with evidence or don't bother commenting here again on this issue.
We have mountains and mountains of evidence of negligent adults leaving unsecured guns around children and hundreds of those children either killing themselves or their siblings or adults. But I've yet to see concern trolls like the Anonymice @9:21 and @11:48 tripping over themselves running to blogs to warn them of that very real danger to children.
The Anonymice here are phonies who don't give a flying donut about the safety of children, they're just ordinary, uninteresting bigots trying to keep another minority in their place.
BlueBull: "They seem to confuse drag queens and transvestites (neither of which group has the level of pedophiles that straight white men has) with transgender people and there's simply no getting facts and reality into a right wing head. Too much cement and no ability to learn......"
Their obsession with transvestites and bathrooms reminds me of the old saying:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Jerry, there are a couple (or maybe it's just one) of Anonymice who can be counted on to come here and leave their hysteria backed up by nothing because they refuse to educate themselves.
While children are killed by unsecured guns, these whackos are invading Target stores to protect children from something that doesn't exist.
Anti-Queer Christians Invading Target Stores To Preach Are Wreaking Havoc
Religious protestors employ Bible scriptures to condemn the retailer’s bathroom policies.
And where were these crusaders when children in Flint, Michigan, were drinking lead poisoned water?
Seriously, these folks are messed up where it comes to concern for children.
@Shaw -- And where were these crusaders when children in Flint, Michigan, were drinking lead poisoned water?
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Silly Shaw, they were actively trying to blame the whole matter on the left.
Their concern for children only triggers when they can wield it as a cynical tool.
I'm struck by their constant assumption that any non straight is a pedophile. Do they believe that or is it just a convenient meme to agitate the ignorant?
My youngest niece had a friend who struggled with gender identity. The circle of friends did just fine. She enrolled in Mass. Art and later decided to continue her education in Germany and is successful.
As you point out, not a danger like Denny Hastert.
I notice that Hastert was never a lead topic at the mother ship but boycotting Target, "Because we are falling apart", is above the fold today.
I just don't understand their hate or their fear. Both probably arise from the same source.
Shaw... let's just, for a moment, accept the right wing worries about this. Because I am pretty sure, there are a few instances out there where someone from the LGBT community has in fact, done exactly what the right wing alleges. Yet rather than call for just enforcing the laws already on the books to deal with these few instances, they are trying to pass new laws across a wide range of states.
One must wonder why they have an aversion to the same approach with regards to gun laws and mass killings? The overwhelming evidence shows, as opposed to the LGBT issue, that guns are a problem, and that these crimes are perpetrated by white, disaffected males.
@ anon -- And since he can be recgonized(sic) he can just diguise himself as a woman
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Stop me if I'm wrong, please, because the stupid is so strong in that statement I can't pass it up.
If a pedophile (N.B. pedophile ) wishes to attempt a very high profile, risky assault in a public rest room, why can't that person do so in disguise now?
Transgender individuals aren't trying to disguise anything. They just want to go in and use the stall like anyone else.
Are you the anonymous @9:21 who is trying to pass himself off as an expert on bathroom child molestation? Where did you obtain your insight.
Dave,
Okay. Let's say there has been an unfortunate instance of a child being molested by a man dressed as a woman, but that has to be very very rare, since I've seen no reliable or meaningful statistic to make this an emergency to the point where laws have to be enacted to bar people from public bathrooms.
There will always be weirdos who prey on the young and the weak.
As I've said young white males have done more harm to children and adults than transgender people, but I haven't heard anyone of these people looking to enact anti-transgender laws banning young white males from movie theaters, grammar schools, or churches.
This is why I don't take their concern as a serious issue about the safety of children.
Ducky: Do they believe that or is it just a convenient meme to agitate the ignorant?
I think it's their fear of "the other." Whether it's the other with dark skin, different religion, or different sexual orientation, they fear them.
I've spent many a summer on the Cape, and I've visit Provincetown hundreds of times. As you know, P-town has its share of people with a life that is not necessarily straight or gender-set. I've spent many a fabulous evening in P-town in the company of transgender males -- many of them absolutely gorgeous and impeccable in their make-up and couture. There's nothing to fear and everything to admire in these men who choose to be who they are. And do a incredible job at that.
I'm guessing the people who suspect transgender people of wanting to harm children have never bothered to get to known them. They seem to have an unfounded aversion to anyone who is not like them.
I read the comments about Target at that blog. They actually believe there's a real danger to children from transgenders in public bathrooms. It's astounding how those people never write about unsecured guns that actually do kill children, and don't have a thing to say about that real and present danger, but they have their knickers in a twist about something that has little to no basis in reality.
As we've said previously, children have been molested by trusted clergymen, children have been killed by young white males with firearms, children have been killing each other, their siblings, and adults with unsecured firearms, but these people have never written a word about these real dangers to kids. But a transgender who will use a ladies' bathroom has them losing their minds.
Does anyone want to guess why?
OT. Attention! Attention!
A Tea Party blogger hs SIX FRIENDS who are DemocRATS who are voting for Trump! SIX DemocRATS! Something like 100 million people vote in a general election. And six "dimmocrats" are going over to the dark side and voting for the GOP asshole!
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