The constant drumbeat of society and their culture wars continue as they always have, with the various factions dueling it out to have their perspective deemed normal or acceptable to society, often times to the exclusion of others. I, like most other folks, reserve passion for some of the skirmishes while ignoring most.

The “transgender debate” is one that I’ve often ventured into, although it has been limited to hypocritical trans-exclusionary radical feminists and their hatred of male to female transwomen, whom they view as male usurpers coming to infringe on the carefully cultivated victim narrative feminists have manufactured for the female gender.

I have not touched upon the “war of the bathrooms” as it were, and will only do so briefly here. If you’re unfamiliar, I speak of the various legal battles currently taking place which attempt to allow transgender people to use the public restroom facilities of the gender they present as or identify with as opposed to the gender they would be considered biologically speaking, the one found on their birth certificate to be precise.

An article titled Man who choked 8-year-old girl in women’s restroom stokes alarm over transgender access highlights an, in my opinion, misandrous implication that we see often in conservative circles. The “bad evil mens are using transgender bathroom laws to gain access to our daughters” moral panic is what I speak of.

In other words, the main opposition to these transgender bills from the likes of right wing conspiracists such as Alex Jones and the like would suggest that men (oddly enough female to male transgendered folks are not tarred with the same malicious intent by these people when they venture into male bathrooms) are using these bills to find excuses to get into female restrooms so that they can presumably start engaging in inevitable mass molestation/rape of women and girls while under the sanctuary of bathroom privacy laws. The article reads as follows (emphasis mine):

The attack by a man on an 8-year-old girl in a women’s restroom last week in a Chicago restaurant is raising alarm about opposite-sex access to public facilities in the name of transgender rights. Police say the man, 33-year-old Reese Hartstirn, entered the women’s room May 7 at Jason’s Deli in Chicago’s South Loop and choked the girl until she passed out. The girl’s mother, who was in the adjacent stall, heard her daughter’s screams and rescued her, while restaurant patrons held the suspect until police arrived, according to WLS-TV in Chicago. Opponents of laws allowing opposite-sex public-facility use argue that they increase the danger of such attacks because they allow men, transgender or not, to enter women’s rooms unchallenged.

Ah, I see, the problem is “men,transgender or not” entering into women’s rooms unchallenged. Men have, you see, a hidden rape instinct bubbling just under the surface and things as trivial as using the same restrooms as women and girls might set them off. No-one can tell when one of these monsters might snap…

I certainly am open to hearing the arguments of those who insist that public bathroom facilities should remain segregated by gender, I do not deny that there exist many compelling reasons for doing so. The moral panic surrounding men having access to “our daughters” and their supposed inability to not then descend into frothing rape sprees is not one of them. Certainly there have been women who have choked girls in bathrooms before, do we need to pass bills to keep women from accessing “our daughters”, or “our boys” in bathrooms now as well? women are in fact more likely to harm children than men are, and yet none of these conservative pundits are mentioning that in their scare campaigns. The article continues.

“I’m sure his intent was innocent,” said Susan Wright in a Friday post on the conservative website RedState. “I’m sure he really felt that he belonged in the women’s restroom and the little girl was somehow oppressing him, which caused the confusion, resulting in his hands ending up around her neck.” Chicago bans discrimination based on gender identity in employment, housing and public accommodations. Battles over whether such anti-discrimination ordinances apply to transgender bathroom access have spiked since Houston voters defeated 3-to-1 a so-called “bathroom bill” in November. The Obama administration released an order Friday banning public schools from denying access to bathrooms, locker rooms and other single-sex facilities. Under the order, a parent must first notify the district that the child’s gender identity “differs from previous representations or records.” In other situations, no such proof is required. In New York City, for example, Mayor Bill de Blasio last week signed an executive order forbidding municipal employees from asking for proof of gender identity from those using city-owned facilities such as restrooms and showers. Hartstirn is scheduled to appear in court Monday on charges of aggravated kidnapping of a child, aggravated battery of a child and battery causing bodily harm, as well as aggravated assault of a police officer, according to WLS-TV. Supporters of transgender rights argue that such attacks are still against the law and that anyone who commits crimes after entering opposite-sex bathrooms remains subject to prosecution. “You know, a dude who would choke out an eight-year-old girl is probably not the kind of dude who would be dissuaded by the wrong sign on a restroom door,” argued a commenter on RedState. Others say allowing men to enter women’s rooms is asking for trouble. After a Washington state commission ruled in December that the state’s anti-discrimination law applied to transgender bathroom access, a man drew headlines by undressing in a Seattle women’s public locker room, saying he was allowed to do so. “It was dangerous before this new bathroom insanity came along,” said another comment. “The guy is a criminal looking for victims. Don’t make it any easier for him!”

Lets tackle this bit…

Supporters of transgender rights argue that such attacks are still against the law and that anyone who commits crimes after entering opposite-sex bathrooms remains subject to prosecution.

“You know, a dude who would choke out an eight-year-old girl is probably not the kind of dude who would be dissuaded by the wrong sign on a restroom door,” argued a commenter on RedState.

They have a point, there are legal protections already in place that would punish a male to female transgender person if they initiated any violence against anyone while using the bathroom of the gender they identify with, remember folks that if guns don’t kill people, but instead people kill people, then how does a bathroom law rape/molest “our daughters” exactly?

People rape and molest, bathroom laws do not, and the implication becomes readily apparent, the belief that we need these laws to stop men from using public restroom facilities that they pay taxes for alongside the female sex assumes that men, as a group cannot empty their bladders alongside women and quietly go about their business. it is the right wing pundits version of feminists kicking men out of barnes and nobles book stores for hanging out in the children’s section for too long…