Quote:Speaking of opiates. If you think the democrats forcing of different sexed school age children to share same bathrooms and shower rooms is going to set
Way to misstate the issue. You're as hysterical on this subject as your fellow nut jobs were about Ebola. First swallow misinformation, then run around with your asses on fire. Wash, rinse, repeat!
Get a f*ckin' grip.
The debate over bathrooms is based on a myth
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Conservatives usually counter that there are examples of men sneaking into women's bathrooms to attack women. But as PolitiFact reported, none of the examples cited in the US happened after a city or state passed a nondiscrimination law or otherwise let trans people use the bathroom or locker room for their gender identity.
Instead, these seem to be examples of men doing awful things regardless of the law — which has, unfortunately, happened since the beginning of civilization.
One example is a case in Toronto, Canada, which now has a nondiscrimination law, in which a man disguised himself as a woman and attacked women in shelters. But the attacks happened months before Ontario (Toronto's province) protected trans people in a nondiscrimination law. So the law couldn't have been the cause.
While the issue is now being used primarily against trans people, historically bathroom fears have been regularly deployed against civil rights causes.
It was used against black people to justify segregation — by invoking fears that black men would attack white women in bathrooms. And it was used to stop the Equal Rights Amendment, which tried to establish legal equality between men and women, because opponents claimed it would lead to the abolition of bathrooms for different genders, potentially putting women in danger.
These measures have also proven to be bad in another way: They cost jobs
After North Carolina passed its law, PayPal and Deutsche Bank pulled expansions into the state that would have created hundreds of jobs. Several musicians, such as Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam, canceled concerts in the state. A+E Networks and 21st Century Fox said they would reconsider using North Carolina as a filming location in the future. And nearly 200 CEOs signed a letter asking Gov. McCrory to repeal the law.
Businesses have a financial incentive to act this way: A major goal of theirs is to attract new talent. But young hires are also more likely to be more accepting of LGBTQ issues, including trans people in bathrooms, and some of them may be LGBTQ themselves.
So appearing supportive of LGBTQ rights can be one way that a company shows it shares the values of the up-and-coming workforce.
Whatever the reason, businesses' resistance to anti-LGBTQ laws is enough to make any lawmaker reconsider whether to pass these bathroom measures.
"Whether you're a Democratic governor or a Republican governor, virtually without exception, goal No. 1 is to keep jobs in your state and to attract new jobs that you don't currently have," Chad Griffin, president of the LGBTQ rights group Human Rights Campaign (HRC), previously told me. "That is one thing that is shared between conservative governors, liberal governors, moderate governors."
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