House Speaker Mike Johnson announced a new policy stating that transgender women must use men's restrooms and transgender men must use women's restrooms inside the Capitol.
This was in response to Congresswoman-elect “Sarah” McBride, who identifies as a transgender woman, winning the Delaware seat.
“This is a women's space and we should have a say. We don't have to bow to the rules that say a man wearing a skirt has the right to invade our space. , this is a private space for men and women, and there's a reason for that. allie beth stuckey Number of comments that I can relate to.
Brad Polumbo of the Brad vs. Everybody Podcast disagrees.
“I just see the whole thing as a solution in search of a problem. Basically, they've been exploiting their gender identity for years,” he told Stuckey. “Even if you zoom out and look around the country, instances of physical assault, voyeurism, and harassment in restrooms are statistically incredibly rare.”
“And these gender identity ordinances that have been passed in many blue areas, which allow people to use the bathroom of their choice, are empirically consistent with increases in these crimes. ” he continues.
“So I see this whole incident as a kind of culture war rant trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist,” he added.
However, Polumbo seems to be making the mistake of viewing the situation only from a male perspective. There are good reasons why women don't want to share a bathroom with a man who believes he's a woman.
“We're talking specifically about women,” Stuckey replies. “A 5-foot-4-inch guy with a beard, no guy is actually really afraid of women, because he's been on testosterone for a few years and comes into the bathroom.”
“Of course, it's the woman who is understandably nervous about a 6-foot-2 man wearing a skirt and wearing lipstick walking into the bathroom with not only her but her 10-year-old daughter. “They may also be doing things that naturally require privacy, such as breastfeeding, pumping, or changing. That's why we have a bathroom.”
Polumbo goes on to argue that conservatives' fear of transgender women in women's restrooms is the same as their fear of Catholic priests sexually abusing children, and Stuckey couldn't agree more. It should be.
“I don't think this is a good analogy, because we're not just saying that men who identify as women can violate girls; we're saying that men who identify as women can violate girls. I understand that not all men who identify with violence commit violence against girls and women. It violates reality, it violates truth,” she explained. I will.
“There's a cost to saying, 'Two plus two equals five.' Now, saying, 'Two plus two equals five,' might be less harmful,” she continued. “But I believe it violates the laws of nature and reality.''
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