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Serious oversight. Serious miscalculation.

In the months to come, those words may be used to describe Senator Don Plett’s amendment to Bill C-279, a gender identity/trans rights bill that has effectively been sent back to the House — and where, in truth, it is almost certain to die.

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Which was the real point of the amendment, many are saying.

Regardless, it is not only trans women who should be afraid for their safety now that they may have to use men’s facilities in some public places. “Biological” women — the word “biological” being quoted by media outlets as a Senate committee’s benchmark for bathroom use — may now have real reason to be afraid, too, because the amendment and the message it has sent may now make it easier for male sexual predators to enter women’s public bathrooms and change rooms.

In their perhaps honest but misguided zeal to bar trans women from using the women’s facilities and thus thwart potential male sexual predators from dressing up as women to gain entry there, Senator Plett and other critics of what has been dubbed “the bathroom bill” seemed to have forgotten about trans males, who presumably could be forced to use women’s public facilities — if you apply the same “biological” logic the senator and company are using.