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In reply to the discussion: Question about the NC Bathroom Law [View all]zazen
(2,978 posts)Hell, at IBMA last year, and I'm middle-aged. It's gone on for years. God help me if he had had the legal right to walk right on in.
Can you imagine the drunk guys in bars who'd walk right into women's bathrooms when they could?
I'd have felt just fine with a transgendered person in there, if I had even noticed. It's predating cis-gender guys I have a problem with, and so does every female who has a history of having been sexually assaulted by one. Our rights matter, too.
I don't want cis-gender guys in my bathroom or shower. I'm all for laws that protect transgender people and that promote gender-neutral bathrooms along with traditional ones. Millennia of violence against women is real and doesn't just go away because some Republicans want to use the issue as a temporary political football.
The maniacs who passed HB2 don't give a crap about violence against women (or women's lives or reproductive freedom.) They folded an outrageous number of discriminatory, democracy-suppressing measures into it too, taking away the local authority from municipalities they claim they traditionally protect.