• Ragdoll X@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not making a sophistical argument, they already do this.

    Sadly you’re 100% correct. They cling to the bathroom panic even though their arguments have basically no basis whatsoever in reality. Even the “Family Research Council”, a religious right-wing think-tank, was only able to find 23 cases of “bathroom incidents” over the span of 18 years - most of which involved cis men, not trans women or even crossdressers, and two cases of discrimination against trans women who were just using the bathroom. Plus in one case a conservative man entered the women’s changing room when KIDS were changing to “make a point” about a nondiscrimination law that was recently passed. Everything these creeps claim the left is doing is always just projection.

    Meanwhile states that discriminate against trans students have the same rate of sexual assault as other states, and trans teens are much more likely to be victims of assault, especially when they’re denied access to facilities that match their identity: