The Right Wing Agenda…

…is, “if the truth doesn’t support the conservative cause, lie” and that is what the news media does. Don't let the little thing like the facts get in your way.

Cleveland Paper's Editorial Invokes Fear of 'Predators' in Trans Accommodations
Several Plain Dealer editorial board members made the misinformed argument that allowing trans people to use the facilities that correspond with their gender identity would endanger women.
Advocate
By Dawn Ennis
December 10, 2014

As a proposal to revise Cleveland’s laws prohibiting discrimination against transgender people enters its second month of consideration, the editors of that city’s largest newspaper are weighing in on the issue. And as Media Matters reports, when it comes to changes regarding “public accommodations,” a majority of the editors got it wrong.

The media watchdog site accuses the editorial board of The Plain Dealer and the Northeast Ohio Media Group of “peddling the myth that sexual predators will be allowed to sneak into women's bathrooms.”

As a proposal to revise Cleveland’s laws prohibiting discrimination against transgender people enters its second month of consideration, the editors of that city’s largest newspaper are weighing in on the issue. And as Media Matters reports, when it comes to changes regarding “public accommodations,” a majority of the editors got it wrong.

The media watchdog site accuses the editorial board of The Plain Dealer and the Northeast Ohio Media Group of “peddling the myth that sexual predators will be allowed to sneak into women's bathrooms.”

And it is not just that they do not know the facts and are uninformed,

But that’s not what the proposed ordinance does. As Media Matters reports, the language says nothing about allowing men to use women's restrooms.

In New Hampshire when the proposed gender inclusive bill was before the legislature the conservative media label the bill “the bathroom bill” and generated such a backlash against the bill that not even the bill sponsors voted for the bill. Here in Connecticut that label never got any traction even through the conservative tried to label it that.