Quote:No, but there have been issues with straight people using a restroom/locker room they don't belong in because according to them the law said they could use any restroom they wanted. And I agree, punish people who are breaking the law, but unless the person outright says they're straight like the example I just mentioned, how are you going to know the person is who they say they are? Just because someone says something it doesn't make it true. 

 

In the link above the guy was kicked out of the restroom but returned later when young girls were changing for swim practice. This is the sort of thing that people are worried about outside of seeing men in women's restrooms and women in men's. People with bad intentions can and will take advantage of this and it will be a very bad day the first time a kid gets molested in a state that has this law in effect. And not molested by a transgender, but by someone who took advantage of the system because in their mind, "the law has changed and I have a right to be here." 

People with bad intentions do things regardless of laws.  Remember this: http://www.news4jax.com/news/local/jso-s...y-restroom.  He was in there even though there wasn't a transgender bathroom law.  The law isn't going to cause stuff like this to happen.  It happens anyways.

 

Also, I want to make sure you realize that the article you cited is referring to a man who is NOT trans. My statement that not a single trans person has attacked a non-trans person is true. 

 

Lastly, People with bad intentions can take advantage of any law.  As I mentioned, why punish trans people, why not make a law that punishes the criminals?  Transgender restroom rights don't commit crimes, people commit crimes. If you lined up every single transgender bathroom law, not a single of of them would commit a crime.  It is kind of like the argument that guns don't shoot people, people shoot people.  You don't take away guns because some people take advantage of the laws to buy them and commit crimes.  Anyone could say they are buying a gun for any reason, just because someone says it doesn't make it true.

 

Listen, truth is, people are scared and when they are afraid they will be reluctant to accept changes in societal norms.  I am not scared of trans people or people taking advantage of trans laws attacking my children in the bathroom.  They could be attacked in the bathroom regardless of where someone pees.

 

We will have to agree to disagree.

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