Okay, to hear the conservative, Tea Party, religio-political people tell it, the purpose of the recent raft of anti-Transgender bills that do not allow Transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity, is because men will dress like women in order to prey on innocent females in public restrooms.
Since there are no reported instances of Transgender people doing this, and as they are not talking about true Transgender men molesting other males in men’s room, their concern is that heterosexual men have a practice in sufficient numbers of dressing like women and preying on females in ladies’ restrooms.
Their fear is not related to Transgender people so much as it is to their fear of fellow heterosexual men.
What’s more, there also seems to be quite a few cases where the perpetrators are conservative GOPers.
Distraction can be a useful tool.
Years ago when I was advocating for GLBT students in a particular school district while teaching at a particular high school, there was an assistant principal who was constantly opposing this advocacy based on his religious convictions.
He was always quoting the Bible, having me attend meetings in his office so that parents could quote the Bible at me, having the Prayer at the pole kids pray for my conversion and salvation, and constantly misrepresenting statistics on pedophiles to have them apply to Gay men, when in fact they didn’t.
I found him to be a little too close to students, being more of their bigger friend than the adult in authority, and it was not long before some students had used a hidden tape recorder to record him making some bizarre propositions to female students which resulted in his being accused of improper conduct and his pleading no contest to the charges. He not only lost his job, but the law degree he had just earned.
Not to overuse the symbol, but as he was pointing his finger at Gay people, he had, for a while anyway, distracted everyone from the three fingers that were pointing at himself.
By posing as the protector of the vulnerable, he managed to keep people from seeing that he was actually the one from whom they should have been protected.
The GOP seems to be using this same tactic when, reviewing instances of problems in bathrooms, you find the following.
Jon Hinson, a Mississippi congressman, was arrested in 1981 for having oral sex in the House of Representatives’ bathroom with a government staffer. Before that, in 1976 he was also arrested for exposing himself to an undercover agent. Although he was reelected in 1980 in spite of that first incident, he resigned from office after the second one.
Larry Craig, an Idaho Republican senator, was arrested for lewd conduct in a men’s room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in 2007.
Bob Allen, a Florida state Representative, was arrested for allegedly agreeing to pay $20 to perform a sex act on an undercover cop in the bathroom at a public park.
As far as transgender men pretending to be men so that they can enter a men’s room for the purpose of preying on the unsuspecting, a March 2014 piece from Media Matters pointed out that no such cases exist.
“It’s a lie that is unsupported by even a shred of evidence and contradicted by years of experience in states that already have non-discrimination laws on the books.”
So the score is Republican restroom offender 3: Transgender offender 0.
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To those who feel compelled to point out these instances were in the past, let me point out that the Transgender incidences were never.
Then there is this guy, GOP Representative Louie Gohmert from Texas who, when defending the recent North Carolina anti-LGBT law that bans transgender people from using restrooms consistent with their gender identity and prevents localities in the state from enacting measures protecting LGBT people from discrimination, confessed on a radio show this past week,
“When it comes to this current legislation where — in most of the world, in most of the religions, the major religions, you have men and you have women, and there are some abnormalities but for heaven’s sake, I was as good a kid as you can have growing up, I never drank alcohol till I was legal, never to, still, use an illegal drug, but in the seventh grade if the law had been that all I had to do was say, ‘I’m a girl,’ and I got to go into the girls’ restroom, I don’t know if I could’ve withstood the temptation just to get educated back in those days.”
What sort of principles does a person have who only stayed out of the ladies’ room because there was a rule and believes the rule is necessary now to keep others, like himself, from going in.
It is sad when a person makes it known that civil and religious laws are the only things keeping him away from perversion, when a good person would avoid that because of their innate goodness.
This past Thursday, Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the House, and a person who, when the investigation of the Clintons for some alleged property investment scandal did not pan out, so he instead had to take on the role of the self-righteous person shocked that the president had a tryst in the Oval office and should be impeached, was indicted on charges that he made $1.7 million in payments to an individual to conceal his sexual abuse of at least one former student he knew during his days as a teacher in Yorkville, Illinois.
These “bathroom bills” are merely a repeat of the Jim Crow laws both in structure and in purpose, a purpose that is hidden, or is intended to be.
Many people are not familiar with why there was a need for Jim Crow laws.
The reason was very subconscious as the laws were not to prevent power as little of that comes from the toilet you use or the water fountain from which you drink.
The reason for the Jim Crow laws was to keep the races separate so as to protect the virtuous white women from the uncontrollable lecherous advances of black men.
Remember, it was more economical to breed your own slave stock rather than have to increase it by purchase, and to profit further by being able to sell off the children at a good price.
Therefore the more fertile and capable of childbearing a woman was, and the more well endowed the males were not only spoke to the possibility for better and more profitable transactions, but the slave owner would have to be aware of the male slaves endowment, as would the female members of the slave owners’ families.
Given the choice between what had been bred for breeding, and the slave owners’ offerings, it was clear who the losers would be if the women could observe their options.
Therefore white and black needed to be separate in all areas as much as was practicable, and speaking of the danger and indoctrinating women into believing what their husbands and suitors needed to be believed when they promoted the idea of the rapacious Black man was preached in churches and codified in law.
The actual reason for Jim Crow laws was not, therefore, protecting the virtuous white women from the unsolicited advances of the freed black man, but eliminating the white man’s disgrace at losing out if their women had a choice.
Just as now, it was not the sin of those against whom the laws are directed, but the short comings of those who directed the laws.
If our attention is on the fictitious predatoryTransgender person, we will not notice those who are actually committing the crimes.