Current Events > One thing I never understood about the transgender bathroom laws is how

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it actually accomplished anything to begin with. If the idea was to protect the children from predators, wouldn't you just be putting those predators into a different bathroom? I mean, there are children in both the men and women bathrooms. :u So what was the point?
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It started by trying to pander to everyone

But then they tried to pander to different groups who wanted incompatible things, so the pandering became super complicated
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We should make predator only bathrooms!

Yes that is a weak argument but NC is not run by smart people.
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OpheliaAdenade posted...

it actually accomplished anything to begin with. If the idea was to protect the children from predators, wouldn't you just be putting those predators into a different bathroom? I mean, there are children in both the men and women bathrooms. :u So what was the point?

presumably the predators are usually only interested in one gender/sex. so you keep them away from people they'd want to harass/assault

Fam_Fam posted...

OpheliaAdenade posted...

it actually accomplished anything to begin with. If the idea was to protect the children from predators, wouldn't you just be putting those predators into a different bathroom? I mean, there are children in both the men and women bathrooms. :u So what was the point?

presumably the predators are usually only interested in one gender/sex. so you keep them away from people they'd want to harass/assault

Aren't most predators equal opportunity predators though?
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it also assumes that transgender people are predators when they're statistically way more likely to be victims than cisgender people
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averagejoel posted...

it also assumes that transgender people are predators when they're statistically way more likely to be victims than cisgender people

No, it's assuming that cisgender people who are predators are going to take the opportunity to pretend to be transgender.
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OpheliaAdenade posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

OpheliaAdenade posted...

it actually accomplished anything to begin with. If the idea was to protect the children from predators, wouldn't you just be putting those predators into a different bathroom? I mean, there are children in both the men and women bathrooms. :u So what was the point?

presumably the predators are usually only interested in one gender/sex. so you keep them away from people they'd want to harass/assault

Aren't most predators equal opportunity predators though?

Generally speaking yes.
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