Another View

This article has a different view of why all the anti-trans law being introduced and some passed.

What’s Really Behind the Angst Over Transgender Bathrooms?
Forward
By Jane Eisner
April 10, 2016

We need to talk. About bathrooms.

Honestly, I don’t remember a time when so many angry words, backroom political maneuvers, votes and vetoes, protests, counter-protests and economic boycotts were prompted by the question of who gets to use which toilet.

And yet here we are: Whether transgender people should be required to use the bathroom labeled with their gender at birth, or the one labeled with the gender they identify with now, is the subject of passionate debate and legislative action in North Carolina, Mississippi and other parts of our country. Why?
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There is no denying that on a basic level, these debates are driven in part by homophobic bigots and their funders, who want to scuttle laws that don’t do anything more than protect trans people who have to pee or shower or change their clothes. The supposed threats that these protections pose to others are largely nonexistent; in fact, it is transgender people who are far more likely to be the target of violence than any random user of the ladies’ room.

No amount of education is going to change their bias; they are not interested in fact.

But in our heightened public discourse, actual facts seem to matter little. Joel Hunter, senior pastor of Northland: A Church Distributed, a mega-church that worships at three sites in Central Florida and reaches many more online, told me that even though there are transgender members of his congregation, the evangelical Christians he knows are still fearful of the bathroom mandate — and, more broadly, fearful of a hyper-sexualized society where boundaries are eliminated and gender confusion reigns.

“This is unfamiliar territory,” he said, speaking by phone from his Orlando church. “There is a general apprehension in the evangelical community about the rate and speed of change that the culture is undergoing right now.”

These are people who fear change; they want to stop the world. Even though we have around forever we were not headlines in the news. Did you know John Quincy Adams was an attorney in a case the involved a crossdresser?

The article goes on to say,

And then, when you really consider the fears expressed by those opposed to these changes — real and, too often, imagined — you realize that these people aren’t freaking out only about trans people. They are freaking out about men.
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“We’re in denial about most of the violence against women in our society, and this brings it to the surface,” Ladin observed. “If I am in a women’s room and see someone who looks like a guy, I’m taken aback. It doesn’t make sense, except for the fact that women everywhere are exposed to violence.”

You are not going to change these people, their fears are too ingrained. If you look back at the history of segregation you will see it was the fear of a black man in the bathroom with white children. In the seventies when all those anti- gay state constitutions that were amended was because of gay men in bathrooms with little boys and now it is against us that their fear is now focused.

Also the Republican party has found gold in being anti-LGBT, those campaign donations are pour in and they also found that it rallies their base and gets them out to vote.

They are milking the hate against us.