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That’s why time after time after time, these people suggested building entire separate bathrooms at public locations for our trannie brothers and sisters.
Really. Made me think for a minute that maybe it wasn’t the Christian Family Coalition who paid for the busses, after all, but the LBA or the Munilla Construction brothers.
And time after time after time, the protestors said they had nothing against transgenders themselves. God tells them to love everybody. They are just afraid that some sexual predator pedophile will pretend to be a trannie to sneak into a bathroom after a prepubescent girl and molest her, that some pervert will put on a dress and a wig and some lipstick (they actually described that stereotype) and use this “loophole” (they actually used that word) to stalk victims.
Really? Really? Who on Earth would pretend to be a trannie in a public place? Transgendered people are the ones who are forced to pretend to be someone they are not. They do that for a reason. Because they do not feel welcome in the world. Ladra highly doubts that some evil-minded perve is going to dress up like a dame to maybe get some kicks and risk becoming a victim himself.
“This is not about bathrooms because the
transgender community, they already use the bathrooms,” said Commissioner Audrey Edmonson, who sponsored the amendment. “Unfortunately, this has been characterized as a public safety issue. It is an issue of fairness, of equality.”
While one transgender man did say that this measure was about the “dignity to pee in peace,” it’s really not about bathrooms, ladies and gentlemen — and anyone else tuned in. It’s about bias. It’s about bigotry. It’s about wanting to keep cross-dressing kids in their closets so the rest of us don’t have to see their transgender expression. It’s about closed-minded people not wanting to be made uncomfortable.
Really? Really? We are still talking about this like this in 2014?
The amendment passed 3-1 in committee. Only Commissioner Esteban Bovo voted against it. He echoed some protestors arguments about it being unnecessary because the transgender community is already protected under the current law. Our human rights ordinance prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, marital status, familial status or sexual orientation. Looks to m
e like there’s a little duplication — or clarification — already. What’s the harm of adding this?
Especially if it could do a lot of good.
Besides, Bovo voted no even after Erin New, the county’s legal liaison to the Office of Human Rights and Fair Employment — which takes the complaints of violations of the ordinance — told him that there were, indeed, between five and 10 complaints that they struggled with precisely because they could not be categorized in any of the other protections. Bovo said that he wanted to get more details on that before the measure is taken up as a whole, possibly Dec. 2.
Oh, and he also wants a cost analysis for the new, separate bathrooms. Ladra again thinks this is all a ruse to get a new capital improvement project on the procurement gift list.
Do I smell a future bond referendum in the making?
The measure will come to the full commission Dec. 2 and Ladra certainly expects the same crowd of haters to show up and make the meeting unnecessarily long. The votes are definitely there for it to pass, so they shouldn’t waste their time.
Here’s an idea. Why doesn’t the commission try to pair this with harsher charges and punishment for that far-fetched scenario of the gender-bending pretender? Let’s say anyone caught pretending to be a transgendered individual in order to commit some indecent criminal act will be charged with something stronger than lewd and lascivious behavior and get enhanced penalties that guarantee jail time even for first-time offenders.
But let’s leave the real transgenders, who only want to pee in peace, alone.
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