House Bill 752 criminalizes trans bathroom use in all private businesses with severe penalties. While passing it, Republicans argued trans people won't be harmed because they don't exist.
Exactly. And as we’ve already seen in some places, a passing trans person trying to use the “correct” bathroom according to law is more likely to get harassed or even assaulted as a result. These laws don’t fix an actual problem, they just create an environment where innocent people will be punished for the crime of existing in a public space.
Some do, probably, yes. Some actually believe in this chain of “logic”. Those people really do believe that trans people are a threat to the safety of others. Odds are good those people have never talked to, or possibly even met, a trans person.
If they’re a myth, why make a law against a supposed myth? Oh, it’s a talking point of you wanting to make them a myth. Republicans are a myth.
I appreciate the sarcasm, but their actual “thought process” (yes, that belongs in quotes) goes something like this:
To put it simply, because they don’t think trans people exist, a person using the wrong gendered bathroom is there to sexually assault people.
Because signs apparently stop rapists.
Which is weird, because people like them are statistically far more likely to commit sexual assault than trans people or drag Queens.
I guess it’s yet another example of right wing projection.
Exactly. And as we’ve already seen in some places, a passing trans person trying to use the “correct” bathroom according to law is more likely to get harassed or even assaulted as a result. These laws don’t fix an actual problem, they just create an environment where innocent people will be punished for the crime of existing in a public space.
Well, that’s the explanation they give publicly. In reality, they just want to hurt and oppress people.
Some do, probably, yes. Some actually believe in this chain of “logic”. Those people really do believe that trans people are a threat to the safety of others. Odds are good those people have never talked to, or possibly even met, a trans person.