So, in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city council passed an ordinance that, among other things, allows a transgender person to use the public restroom of the gender they identify with.
Aghast, the state legislature overrode this portion of the ordinance with a law forbidding municipalities to enact anti-LGBT discrimination laws. Some state legislators claimed Charlotte's ordinance would allow sexual predators to use the law as a means to assault their victims.
Never mind that men who've assaulted women in public restrooms never needed a guise before. If there is to be a ruse, the color of authority is much more effective, as a recent case has shown.
Just to be clear,
The North Carolina state legislature wants all biological males to use the men's restroom, and all biological females to use the women's restroom (that is, restrooms maintained by a municipality or government entity).
Even if some of those biological males dress and look like women, and some of those biological females dress and look like men.
The legislature wants a biological male who dresses and looks like a woman to go to the bathroom with men. A woman-looking person in the men's restroom. Making the men in the restroom uncomfortable.1
The legislature also wants a biological female who dresses and looks like a man to go to the bathroom with women. A man-looking person in the women's restroom. Making the women in the restroom uncomfortable.2
Again, just to be clear,
Basically, the North Carolina Legislature wants everyone to be uncomfortable in a public restroom.
Why?
1. Not to mention possibly putting said woman in danger. You know how some men will aggressively try to hit on any woman within a 5 inch radius of where they are standing? Could you imagine? A publicly owned sport facility or concert arena? A lot of alcohol? A woman in the men's bathroom? It would be a wonder if said woman (biologically female or not) didn't get assaulted.
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