Yesterday I read this story at CNN: I'm a Transgender Woman in America. I Shouldn't Have to Live in Fear.
The author, Jennifer Williams, is fundamentally correct, she shouldn't have to live in fear. But why does she believe she would have to live in fear? Because North Carolina passed House Bill 2 "which required everyone in the state to use public restrooms based on the sex assigned to them at birth."
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Listen, I am an old man. At the public school district where I work, there are 2 restrooms in the building that is used for support staff. Both restrooms are unisex. There is a nice bathroom in the front of the building and it goes unsaid that Ladies use that restroom. In the back of the building, there's a restroom that looks like it's a prop from the set of Saw. It goes unsaid that restroom is for the Gentlemen.
Of all the problems that confront the staff at the local school district, who uses which bathroom ranks very low on the priority list of things that need to be fixed.
If you read WIlliams' article, you would think that her life was in imminent danger based on restroom usage. You know what? At some point you have to draw a line in the sand and say "I'm sorry you're being inconvenienced but you are going to have to deal with it." If I had to list the problems in America from 1 to 10,000, Transgender Bathroom Rights wouldn't even be on the list.
DAMMIT FRED HUNT, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND-
Listen, I use the Saw Restroom, don't tell me what I do and don't understand. Let me tell Jennifer Williams, who thinks she is living in Nazi Germany in 1943, you are LUCKY you live in America.
If you're a Transgender Citizen living openly and making a cross country trip in:
Russia? You're probably dead.
Saudi Arabia? You're for sure dead.
Iran? They couldn't kill you fast enough.
Egypt? You're getting dragged through the streets before they kill you.
El Salvador? (Unless you work for the cartels), you're dead.
In China? You're dead, you don't exist, and you never existed.
With the exception of maybe a few progressive Scandinavian countries, there is no friendlier Transgender nation than the United States. My kids are friends with the transgender student a block over, she comes over to our home. My kids' High School has LGBT+ Safe Zones with Pride Flags in nearly every classroom. You can get LGBT+ programming on all streaming platforms, the Boulet Brothers' Dragula is one of my wife's favorite shows. The mall where my teenage daughter works has 4 different bathrooms, Men's Rooms, Women's Rooms, Family Rooms, & Handicap (Friendly) Rooms.
If you enter a bathroom, go straight to the stall, do your business, and exit, no one is going to hassle you. The North Carolina Law is not going to stop anyone from using the bathroom who's not making a statement about using the bathroom. And, for the record, that's what everyone should do. The public restroom is not a social club.
You know who else has issues using public restrooms? People with colostomy bags. The handicapped. Parents with small children (especially Moms with boys). The elderly. The right to go to any bathroom you want wasn't even an issue a generation ago, and the left hijacked a non-issue and created a far-left narrative that Transgender Citizens are being accosted in restrooms in large numbers. That is not happening.
The Williams article sounds like a rich person complaining about how hard it is to find an inexpensive, yet awesome, nanny. Transgender Bathroom Issues are not the new Civil Rights Movement, they are a First World Problem.
Your number one worry in the public restroom should be whether you're going to catch Covid.