(07-16-2017 11:11 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(07-16-2017 09:05 AM)Paul M Wrote:  He's arguing that straight males are a danger in girls restrooms but men with known psychological problems aren't and should be free to roam with the children behind closed doors and you're a hate filled bigot if you disagree.

I'm going to state clearly what this issue is really about for Tom, my fellow Houstonian. Tom, I'm not concerned about transgendered people who have either fully transitioned or have transitioned enough to the point they actually look like the gender they identify with. They're not the reason why I'm opposed to Bathroom Bills. I'm opposed to it because of those individuals who will take advantage of them to do harm to women, children, and actual transgendered people when all they'd have to say is "I'm transgendered" when there's no evidence up to that point that they had any plan to transition, and they may never plan to. In other words, rapists, pedophiles, child molesters, and other sexual molesters are MY targets, not actual transgendered people.

Look past the sensationalism the "mainstream" media has brought to this issue, Tom. I know you can do it.

You might not be 'concerned' with the Trans people, but your advocacy has significant and direct impacts on their ability to function in society.

There's no evidence that any person in the USA has avoided prosecution by saying "I'm trans". There's also no evidence that a Trans person has ever committed any crime whatsoever in a restroom either. RESTROOM ACCESS BILLS DO NOT PROVIDE ANY PROTECTION FOR THOSE WHO COMMIT CRIMES IN RESTROOMS. Period.

I'm sure that a doctors note requirement would be okay to the Trans persons for public school restroom access.

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These bathroom bills don't protect anyone. All it does is prevent those that need to use the restroom from doing so.

Exactly how would Dan Patrick's bathroom bill do anything to protect a perv from peeping on little girls.

BTW, just as an aside....the GOP supports Donald Trump who admitted to spying on girls/women in changing rooms on national radio.