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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not understand your concern about bathrooms.  There is nothing now to stop men from dressing as women to enter a women's restroom if they really want to, and yet this doesn't seem to be a problem in practice.  As a cis-gendered woman, I have zero concerns about trans women using the restroom alongside me.[/quote]

I don’t have an issue with Trans using  women’s bathroom either.  I’m not a lawyer but I think someone  pretending to be a woman in a bathroom could be jailed if they  are found doing something  malicious.  Not a lot of pervs do this right now because the law is not on their side.  This new bill however makes it easier for pervs to do this kind of act.  The issue is  not trans using women’s  bathroom, it’s the other  people  doing malicious  things using  this bill because it’s written  too broadly, If I’m wrong  with this please enlighten me, I really do hope I’m misunderstanding the text.  As to sports, why can’t we just have LGBT sports?[/quote]

At this moment, anyone who commits a criminal act in a women's restroom is subject to criminal penalties for that act.  It doesn't matter if it is a man, a trans woman, or a cisgender woman.  If it's a crime, it's a crime.  This bill would not somehow take away the criminal penalties associated with committing a crime in a women's restroom.

At this moment, and for many, many years before now, transgender women have used women's restrooms without incident.  People just didn't realize it was happening because they passed for cisgender women and no one thought about it.  During that time, men have also had the opportunity to pose as women to enter women's restrooms if that's how they way to try to commit crimes against women, and yet that simply is not a thing that happens with any kind of regularity to warrant allowing legal discrimination against trans women.  Moreover, to the extent the current state of the law does discourage men from trying to pose as women to enter women's restrooms for criminal purposes, those men most likely are just finding different ways to commit those crimes, not becoming law-abiding citizens, so the Equality Act is not likely to result in any increase in crime, except perhaps by anti-trans men who want to make a statement about this act.[/quote]

Follow up question on this.  So in the previous example, we used men who are disguised as wonen in women’s bathroom.  Let’s remove the trans women in the discussion, they are not an issue as far as I’m concered.  With the new bill, can a man( not in disguise, and not LGBTQ), say he wants  to use the bathroom because he identifies as a woman?[/quote]

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