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Finally Free!
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Date: May 05, 2016 03:43PM
"Target's new transgender policy facilitated the crime."
Actually no. You haven't thought this though it seems. This is a consequence of the laws, not Target's policies. Up to now, people who appeared to be women would enter a woman's bathroom, changing room, etc. No one questioned this. It was easy to determine who should be in what bathroom, OK for the most part it was.
Now, trans-gendered people are forced to use bathrooms, changing rooms, etc opposite to the gender they most identify by law. So, If transgender people follow the law you will have very masculine transgender men in a woman's bathroom and very feminine transgender women in men's bathrooms. All of which is required by these laws.
In other words, the LAWS are confusing who should be in what bathroom. The laws make it easier for perverts to gain access to locations they shouldn't be in.
Think, before the laws were in place, this guy wouldn't be able to boldly walk into a woman's changing room. Now, thanks to the law, if anyone questions why he's in there (assuming he hadn't been caught filming), he can say he's transgender and walk away. Before the law, he probably would have been stopped at the door and at the very least asked what he was doing there.
Target's policies attempt to keep people in the proper restrooms and changing rooms, but thanks to the laws, it's become very difficult.
If you think that confusion over who should be in what bathroom won't become a bigger issue thanks to these laws, take a look at the news report of a woman, not a transgender woman, but a woman from birth who was kicked out of a woman's bathroom for being considered to be too masculine. (see
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/woman-suing-fishbones-after-being-mistaken-for-a-man-and-kicked-out-of-the-womans-restroom, it's an ABC news affiliate out of Cleveland, not a joke site.)
This law has made a mess of things and I'm glad the Feds have declared that it goes against civil rights.
ETA:
"Most stores still won't allow someone who appears to be a male enter the women's dressing rooms."
Actually, that's exactly what the law now requires. If a transgender man needs to use a public restroom, he must use the woman's room according to the law as written. Target's policy is actually keeps "someone who appears to be a male" in a men's restroom/dressing room.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/2016 04:56PM by Finally Free!.