Interesting Point about the Bathroom...Deny Thousands of Transgender People to Save One or Two Non-Trans? 

A person on Facebook spurred an interesting thought in my writer's mind, about the concern over people abusing a law that allows any gender expression to use the bathroom of their choice. Laws that would benefit a transgender person greatly, are a concern to some, because some,  feel that anyone could abuse the privilege just to be inappropriate.

Example would be a pervert who "says he is a transgender" when he is not, just to be perverted and fulfil his desire to see women with their clothes off somehow.

Now could this happen? Yes. Would the statistics and probability of that kind of perverted person's actions become a huge number and actually happen? No. You may get one out of thousands to actually fake being trans just to gain access to a locker room or bathroom, but I doubt it. The probability would frankly be far too small to worry about.

You see the fear of something happening even once may be warranted. We might need to stop a law because of the danger of the possibility of it happening. We may need to stop a law to save the many. But in the case of a guy or woman faking being a gender to see naked people is not something to worry about.

We guess that one or two weirdos may go into a private place, like a dressing room, just to fulfill a fetish. Ok, it may happen, a pervert abusing a good law, but to stop a law that allows a transgender person or rather, thousands of them, to have a normal life and be perfectly appropriate is not warranted at all. Why deny thousands a right to stop a minute possibility of wrongdoing? The chances of abuse are so small that it just doesn't matter.

It's like us saying that no one can drive a car because there will be accidents and people will die. Ok, accidents happen, (much more than perverts abusing a transgender bathroom access law), yet we still drive and sell cars to people. People drive even though there is a risk. Risk is not a justifier for establishing a law or denying rights.

So to apply this to our transgender favorable laws, we must see that yes, there may be a weirdo or two who will no doubt abuse a transgender law to do evil. But why deny thousands that are trans a human right like using a bathroom because of the risk that someone will be a law breaker? I simply cannot in my mind mind see the numbers being in favor of denying a basic human function based upon a chance that someone may abuse a law. It must be assumed that any law will be broken, but to assume that masses of people will violate a "bathroom law" in dangerous amounts is not justified - its paranoia.

Just my thoughts - Jenny Taylor jennifercohenhappy@gmail.com