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Quick Thoughts on Bathroom Laws
Apr. 29th, 2016 09:40 amI mind my own business in public bathrooms, and everyone else should too. I've likely shared a bathroom with plenty of transgendered folks in my life. It bothered me not one iota.
More Republican Senators have been charged with bathroom indecency, then trans-folk have. Your kid has a higher chance of being molested in the rectory than in the food court bathroom.
So why are all these laws popping up? Specifically, why are they all popping up now?
1) Trans-rights advocacy is finally being noticed in the media.
2) There's a US presidential election coming up. GOP movers and shakers want to make this an issue so that Democratic contenders will be asked their opinion. A Democrat comes down for trans-rights, they will lose socially conservative voters. Come down against it, and they will lose votes from socially progressive voters. Conversely, since there aren't any progressive Republicans anymore, this can't hurt their own party, and it can only hurt the Democratic party. Will that be enough to flip some of the states that are in ties? Who knows. I do know that there was a flurry of states passing anti-same-sex-marriage statutes immediately before the 2008 election, for the same reason.
It's all about the election. That Republicans can make people suffer is just gravy for them.
More Republican Senators have been charged with bathroom indecency, then trans-folk have. Your kid has a higher chance of being molested in the rectory than in the food court bathroom.
So why are all these laws popping up? Specifically, why are they all popping up now?
1) Trans-rights advocacy is finally being noticed in the media.
2) There's a US presidential election coming up. GOP movers and shakers want to make this an issue so that Democratic contenders will be asked their opinion. A Democrat comes down for trans-rights, they will lose socially conservative voters. Come down against it, and they will lose votes from socially progressive voters. Conversely, since there aren't any progressive Republicans anymore, this can't hurt their own party, and it can only hurt the Democratic party. Will that be enough to flip some of the states that are in ties? Who knows. I do know that there was a flurry of states passing anti-same-sex-marriage statutes immediately before the 2008 election, for the same reason.
It's all about the election. That Republicans can make people suffer is just gravy for them.
