[DanaC]

What worries me most about this proposed law is this:

The potential dangers of men going into a female bathroom (which, lets face it is what this is about - I don't think the people passing the law give much of a shit about women going into a men's bathroom) and using the legal right of trans women to use that bathroom as somehow a cover for their nefarious attempts to peep on or attack women seems pretty low to me. I don't have any figures to hand, but I imagine that the number of such incidents would be vanishingly small.

On the other hand, the danger to a transwoman who is in the process of transitioning, or has transitioned and doesn't 'pass' as female to others, of going into a male bathroom whilst dressed and presenting as female seems pretty clear to me. The number of incidents of transwomen having the shit beaten out of them by people who find their gender non-comformity fundamentally and personally threatening, when taken as a percentage of the trans population is frighteningly high.

Legally obliging transwomen to use male bathrooms would, in my opinion, force them to either: run a very dangerous gauntlet in a purely male environment which could well end up with them being assaulted and seriously injured, or not use public restrooms at all.


[eta] to clarify: I think such laws risk replacing a vanishingly small risk of harm to an individual, with a much greater risk of harm to an individual.