https://ragdollx.substack.com/p/trans-people-and-bathrooms
TL:DR
Despite the hysteria surrounding trans people and bathrooms, several studies have found that nondiscrimination laws that protect trans people’s right to use public facilities in accordance with their gender identity don’t lead to an increase in sexual assaults. School officials, experts on sexual assault prevention and police departments all agree that protecting trans people poses no threat to cis women and girls.
By contrast, a large number of trans people, including kids, report experiencing harassment, humiliation or even violence when using a public restroom, along with other problems due to fear of harassment.
Trans youth who had restricted access to restroom/locker rooms were at higher risk of sexual assault, and they were no more likely to commit sexual violence. States that ban trans kids from using facilities consistent with their gender identity reported the same rate of sexual violence as states that didn’t have such bans.
The point isn’t to reduce sexual violence.
The point is to make us want to kill ourselves.
the point is also to actually make us more vulnerable to sexual violence.
Sexual violence and suicide are also, themselves, strongly connected.
Sometimes I want to downvote these kinds of comments like a lib, not because of any fault with the comment, but because of the neo-Nazi they depict. It’s really f***ed up that politicians play with their own citizens’ lives for sport.
That’s the thing. They don’t see us as their citizens. They see us as impediments to their victory
Evidently, the society isn’t mature enough handle people using bathrooms yet.
Fuck it. Destroy all bathrooms. We go back to peeing in the woods and throwing poop buckets down the street.We don’t need people going to the bathroom, we need them 👏 going 👏 to 👏 the 👏 polls 👏
All the woods have been turned into parking lots :/
They really make it as tough as possible to just live in America as a trans person smh
that seems to be the point, yes
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That shows the % of each gender identity which reported SV, % breakdown of total cases is roughly 69% cis, 19% NB, 12% Trans
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I think public bathrooms need to be redesigned to be separate small rooms that can be locked instead of stalls.
Why aren’t all bathrooms unisex to begin with it just seems pointless and inefficient.
To play devil’s advocate a tiny bit (I know, I know, debatebro, but it’s in good faith, trust me), I wonder how much of the increased victimization is due to lower incidence of sexual assault against specifically cisgender boys, and how the data looks when broken down along gender lines (or compared to just cisgender girls).
Straight, cisgender males commit the vast majority of sexual assaults, and I don’t imagine the average sex predator would respect the gender identity of an afab enby or transmasc when deciding whether to assault them. Unlike with cisgender teens, of whom only around half are likely to be victimized by a straight male predator, both many trans girls and boys are at risk.
Obviously the point of the infographic still stands because perpetration rates are still lower, it’s just the first thing that popped into my head.
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