BJade I find it rude and lazy when people google a subject, then copy and paste the first four topics which come up, without reading them.
Of your four citations, only the first one is on topic: a transfemale who attempted to get a young girl to expose herself in the women’s bathroom. The second two have nothing to do with toilets. They are ‘run of the mill’ rape cases, in which the perpetrator happened to be a transfemale. But her being trans didn’t give her access to the victims. This is just pointing out someone is trans for the sake of making all trans’ people look bad. It’s like saying “the victim was robbed by a Black guy.” My question always is, what does his being Black have to do with it?
And of course your last citation, as you point out, has nothing to do with a trans person attacking, so why include it? Just to smear trans people. The column reads more like an editorial than a news report. We have no idea what actually happened.
I understand the issue of multiple-use gender neutral bathrooms. I personally wouldn’t like sitting in a stall, knowing a girl is sitting in the stall next to me. From what I’ve seen in the USA, ‘gender neutral’ bathrooms are for single use only. I haven’t seen any with multiple toilets/urinals. The point is, the risk of a transwoman attacking a cis-woman in a woman’s only bathroom is quite small. And there have in the past been situations where men entered women’s bathrooms and attacked them, having nothing to do with trans folks. Rapists rape. That has nothing to do with being trans.
