 * Sigh * -- From OneNewsNow's Moral debate now a public safety issue:
Citizens in Gainesville, Florida, are trying to repeal an ordinance that lets anyone reject their biological sex simply by stating that they "feel like" a member of the opposite sex. At least one citizen argues that introduces some serious safety concerns for the public.
...In fact, Davis' group has been collecting reports of such incidents, including one in which an elderly woman using a wheelchair complained when an adult male followed her into the women's restroom at a local grocery store.
"And the manager said, 'He can legally do it,'" Davis relates. "The manager didn't even ask this person if he had a sexual or gender identity issue. So just by having this law, men are walking in -- and managers, because of the liability associated with questioning people who are protected by the law, they don't even ask questions."
The difficulty with the public safety aspect of this argument is that there have been no news stories -- no documentation to support the premise -- that predators have ever tried to use a public accommodation law in an attempt to cover sexually predatory behavior in a women's restroom -- despite this undocumented, factually bare anecdote given in this article.
What we're really discussing here is a fear of predatory behavior by cross-dressed males in public restrooms vice actual, documented examples of predatory males actually engaging in any otherwise unlawful behavior in public restrooms -- while at the same time being cross-dressed when they attempt to use public accommodation laws as cover for their predatory behavior.
Let's be frank, here. If there had ever been any documented examples of cross-dressed individuals attempting to use public accommodation laws in an attempt to cover unlawful predatory behavior, I'm absolutely sure we'd have heard about it -- it would be a very, very newsworthy story.
The burden of proof that this happens at all -- that crossdressing males going into women's restrooms constitute a real, documentable public safety issue in municipalities, counties, or states that have passed public accommodation laws, and that these allegedly existing predators used public accommodation laws as legal cover for their allegedly predatory behavior -- should be on the conservative Christians who claim it as fact, vice falling on us transgender people and allies to prove the negative; vice falling on transgender people to prove that this scenario hasn't been documented by somebody, somewhere.
Names, dates and times, incident reports and police reports -- If conservative Christians want to claim gender identity and expression specific public accommodation laws facilitate predatory behavior and constitute a real, public safety issue, they need to show us palpable evidence that indicates this really is a public safety issue. Otherwise, it's just transgender bashing based completely on hearsay and/or fear.
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