Did I miss something?
Has there been a rash of women who look like men trying to use men’s restrooms so that these women (who look like men — with beards and/or mustaches perhaps) could leer at masculine equipage at the urinals?
Or has there been a rash of men who look like women, dressed in women’s clothing, in full make up, going into women’s restrooms to leer at women going into stalls to do what people in the stalls of restrooms do?
To judge from North Carolina and Mississippi, there is been a terrible epidemic of people using the wrong bathrooms in those states.
But, if the problem that these new “bathroom bills” or “bathroom laws” are intended to solve is people using the wrong restrooms, why are provisions that encourage discrimination against LGBT people included in these “bathroom bills”?
Further, if “people using the wrong bathrooms” is really the problem that these bills are intended to solve, then why do bills like the one in North Carolina prevent all cities, towns and villages in North Carolina from implementing laws that specifically protect the legal rights of LGBT people, in the same way that bills prevent discrimination against people based on their age or their race?
Clearly, there has not been a problem with people using “the wrong bathrooms.” If people using the wrong bathrooms were actually a problem, there would be some evidence of it and it would’ve been documented in the news media.
One can only conclude that these bills that are now law in North Carolina and Mississippi, similar to about 100 bills that are sitting in state legislatures across America, are intended solely to require or encourage discrimination against LGBT people.
The “bathroom requirements” of these laws are intended to distract people from the real purpose of these types of legislation, which is to discriminate against people based on their sex, gender or gender expression, in the same way that laws in place decades ago were used to discriminate against people based on their race.
How? North Carolina’s so-called “transgender bathroom law” violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which concerns workplace discrimination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is responsible for enforcement of Title VII. We will see how this turns out.