We shouldn't be letting trans folks go into the wrong bathrooms!
They are a danger to women and children!
Let’s get down to the facts
Trans folks aren’t going into bathrooms and preying on women and children
Prove it
In the US between February 2023 and May 2024, 10,885 cases of child sexual assault were reported
1,895 were family members or family friends
846 were religious leaders
539 were teachers
5 were trans individuals
Ok, but that's just because there are so many more religious leaders and teachers than trans folks!
Let's look at it per capita in the US then
We'll compare the offenses per category to the number of folks in that category in the US
The offense rates are:
1 in 1,722 for religious leaders
1 in 5,937 for teachers
1 in 834,678 for trans individuals
Wow!
So by those numbers, a child is 804 times more likely to be assaulted by a religious leader than a trans person. And 140 times more likely to be assaulted by a teacher
You can check it for yourself
Ok, but still, allowing trans people into diferent bathrooms would give non-trans predatory men a way to get into women’s bathrooms!
We wouldn’t be able to stop them
There are already laws to address predatory behavior
Good laws target harmful behavior, not demographics
Otherwise we should be banning men from having guns, because they make up 97% of mass shooters
Well what’s the harm in just being safe and not allowing trans people into bathrooms
We’ve already established it’s not safer
Banning trans people from using the bathroom they feel safest in doesn’t protect anyone
So maybe we need to adjust our laws to be more protective of them than some non-existent issue
Nor would you want to have to prove your gender prior to using any bathroom