Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
There are 300,000,000 people in the United States. Each year, about 300 men complete sex reassignment surgery to become women. Real trans aren’t all around us, they’re a one-in-a-hundred-million rarity. The odds against a genuine trans person wanting to shower with the girls in the local high school are right up there with winning the lottery.
North Carolina legislators can do math. They know the vast, overwhelming, majority of young men wanting to shower with the girls are not trans, they’re the same kind of guys who’d drill a hole through the wall to peek into the girls shower to see naked chicks. The legislators decided girls’ privacy was more important than giving boys a thrill so they banned boys from showering with girls in public high schools. Liberals are losing their minds because of a possible insult to a hypothetical victim who conceivably might someday exist, against those one-in-a-hundred-million odds.
It is impossible to run a nation on the basis of “Nobody can ever be offended.” That is not a rational way to structure orderly society. The North Carolina way makes perfect sense. Which is why Liberals can’t understand it.
Joe Doakes
It’s like being governed by fourth-graders. “I don’t care about the rules, I want what I want!”
I’m still waiting for one of the reporters covering the juvenile temper tantrums being thrown by protesters against the law, to ask some of the women if they would a. walk into and use a restroom, locker room and/or shower if there was a person with a penis was in there and b. would they allow their daughters of any age below 18 to do so?
For that matter, someone should ask left wing female reporters the same question.
But, again, I won’t hold my breath waiting.
If we assume that someone who suffers the unkindest cut lives 20 years afterwards–granted an assumption that the gentleman from Johns Hopkins might have something to say about–we’re actually talking about a 1/50k issue and not a 1 in a million issue.
But the point still stands–it’s very rare to actually go through with the surgery, thankfully. And in that light, I can think of few things that would do more to kill off girls’ sports than this. If it’s just the bathrooms, the ladies have stalls, and you can get prosecuted for drilling holes and the like. Locker rooms, not so much.
And the obvious question is, how is having someone without a penis (having had that lopadickoffamey) using the ladies room PREVENTED from doing so by the law? Supposedly, nobody is going to have probable cause to do a “search and seizure.” As somebody else has said, “Confused about which locker room to use? Look in your underwear.”
But, what about transgender unicorns? They have rights, too.
I have been a high school girl in a high school locker room. I’ve also been a college woman in a women’s locker room. Granted, it was a couple decades ago, but I doubt much has changed. As titillating as being in a girls locker room may sound to those men making laws, it isn’t all that. Whether I was with girls or women, very few every showered publicly after phys ed. The women dressed with towels still wrapped around them. If they showered because of being in the pool, they showered with their bathing suits on. Those women who wanted real showers were generally considered exhibitionist perverts. *sigh* real stories from real women’s locker rooms. Regardless of what the law says, or allows, I think if any boys or men really try to shower (or be perverts and sneak a peak) in a girls locker room, they will be in for a sad awakening. Girls can be pretty tough when they need to be, especially when the secret rules of conduct that we have among ourselves are broken.
Liberty means being able to put on a wig and hang around in ladies’ bathrooms. Pretty sure that’s in the Federalist Papers….
MJB, that’s basically the same thing my wife and daughters say about the health club, as well as what I’ve seen. Not too many women or men are comfortable letting their privates wave in the wind among others of the same sex, let alone the opposite sex.
But that noted, there are already examples of the policy being abused. So the fact that such a situation is not attractive to us does not ipso facto mean that it will not be attractive to the perverts of the world. Unfortunately, the law needs to address the behavior of those who can only politely be said to have something of a fetish.
Bikebubba, I agree. And as with almost all liberal ideas that are put forth to “protect” some unfortunate group, this latest bathroom banter will likely do quite the opposite. I can imagine an increase in bullying of anyone who behaves differently from the societal norm, straight, transgendered, or otherwise.
Joe might have done the math wrong. (Disclaimer: I am not a math person) I think 300 out of 300,000,000 = 1 in a million. Still a rarity.
I agree with Riktor and BikeBubba that my one-in-a-hundred-million number is too high. Good catch, guys.
Isn’t it obvious? The issue isn’t fictional civil rights for some ten or twenty thousand loonies. The issue is making millions and millions of conservatives bend the knee. You are not a citizen, boy, you are a subject!
The Clinton’s old pal, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, was pretty explicit about this.
There are 843,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, and perhaps 10,000 people who are genuinely transgender. Now, if we are choosing, to we choose the risk that these sex offenders would get a greater chance to repeat their crimes in the ladies’ room, or the risk that transgender people might get their feelings hurt by being forced to use the proper restroom?
Not a difficult decision in my book, unless the left concedes that Megan’s Law was a mistake. But as I said elsewhere, they’ve got to argue that a bit to vote for Hilliary.