RunRagged wrote:
Tatar.. wrote:
The school hadn't enacted any 'policies' at the time of the assault. A meeting held was disrupted by the alleged victim's father where bathroom policy was discussed. The case is being investigated by police and because of this and because they are all minors we don't have much detail.
The policies proposed are described as 'transgender bathrooms' but in reality are 'gender-neutral' and the school wanted to renovate them and make them more private like having a sink and mirror inside a fully enclosed stall.
It would make sexual assault less likely in all honesty but for some people that isn't nearly as important as bashing trans people.
How does making previously female-only communal toilets, locker rooms and other similar facilities mixed-sex - which is what the obfuscating term "gender neutral" means - "make sexual assaults less likely"?
Since the vast majority (over 95%) of people who commit sexual assaults are males, and those they sexually assault are most often female (85%), I don't see how opening up female toilets, locker rooms, change rooms, to males etc will lower the rates of sexual assault - or can & will make girls & women safer. On the contrary, this seems to be throwing safeguarding for half the human race out the window entirely.
Expressing concerns about policies that threaten to diminish the safety, dignity and privacy of girls & women in places outside our homes where we have to remove part or all of our clothes and are especially vulnerable to sexual harassment, voyeurism, exhibitionism, predation and assault, is not the same as "bashing trans people."
If some people have gender identities that make them uncomfortable using the single-sex facilities for their sex, then the solution is to create additional third spaces that can be used by persons of all gender identities of either sex safely and with dignity. But it's not fair to make sweeping changes suddenly removing single-sex provisions from girls & women at schools and other places outside the home, especially not without allowing discussion & debate, and without understanding why women of earlier generations fought and lobbied hard for separate provisions in certain limited circumstances in the first place.
Due to our different urinary anatomy, the additional reproductive functions that biology has endowed us with, the fact that we are physically weaker than males, and the fact that most males are sexually attracted to females, often powerfully, and some males are inclined to behave inappropriately and disrespectfully towards us, and some males are sexually abusive, girls & women require separate toilets from males for reasons you might not be aware of. Pointing this out isn't "bashing" anyone.
A lot of males don't want their toilets and locker rooms to become mixed-sex, either.