Summary
Rep. Nancy Mace, once supportive of LGBTQ rights, has shifted toward anti-transgender rhetoric, including sponsoring a Capitol bathroom ban targeting transgender women, such as Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.
Mace has cited personal safety concerns and her experience as a rape survivor to justify the ban, which critics argue is rooted in discrimination.
Protesters against the legislation led Mace to use a slur in response, sparking further controversy.
Previously, Mace supported LGBTQ rights and socially transitioning minors, but her recent actions reflect a sharp pivot amidst rising anti-LGBTQ sentiment in politics.
I’m going to go out on a limb here.
Nobody whose aim is to go into a public restroom to be an attacker or sex pest is going to be deterred by a restroom ban against trans women. Let alone that such bans wouldn’t even be a speed bump for people born into the matching gender to go into those restrooms and attack or pester.
If you use just one brain cell to consider this bullshit for even a Planck time moment, it’s obviously purposefully oppressive.
There’s one major flaw in your logic. Well more specifically, you’re flaw is logic. The people that have been swayed into supporting anti-lgbt crap fundamentally cannot be swayed using logic. To them, there is some dark soulless creature whose only insurmountable obstacle to their pedophilic rape fantasy is their adherence to custom and standards of using the bathroom in line with their gender assigned at birth.
“But I covered that with the bit about predators attacking someone of the same gender in the bathroom they are unquestionably allowed in. Surely this will slip past their dense cognitive dissonance?” Oh you sweet summer child. How you’ve been duped to think anyone other than your fully red- blooded manly man attacking a young defenseless girl is possible. Young boys surely have the means and mentality to fight off an attacker. No no. It is only young girls needing protection from the big bad man. And how DARE you accuse them of being anti-lgbt for believing this way!
See the trick about these fucking imbecilic cretins is a complete dissociation from reality. The arguments I laid out above are almost verbatim what I got from a Facebook “friend”. And he absolutely takes offense to being accused of being abti-lgbt. Sure he thinks trans-men are women and trans-women are men. But that’s because he wouldn’t date a trans-woman which means they can’t be women. He either goes radio silent or quickly changes the subject when pressed for whether he would date a trans-man.
You can’t bring logic to these fights. Fuck if I know what anyone could actually bring to convince them, but it sure as hell ain’t logic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty
Soap, ballot, jury, cartridge. There’s only one of these that hasn’t yet been employed.
Correction, there has been a very high-profile case of the fourth box being employed just this month. =3
I will add as a trans person that we are already at significantly higher risk of violence against us just from existing. Why would anyone want to increase that risk even higher.