Comments on: Deirdre McCloskey on the bathroom battle https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/05/deirdre-mccloskey-transgender-bathroom-story/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 19 May 2016 13:35:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Rohan https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/05/deirdre-mccloskey-transgender-bathroom-story/comment-page-1/#comment-336377 Wed, 18 May 2016 18:46:44 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=59217#comment-336377 There are so many strawmen in that blog post, I hardly know where to start. Especially the word “bathrooms”. This isn’t just about bathrooms with private individual stalls. It’s also about locker rooms and showers, like in our schools. If the Obama administration had it’s way, biological males, with no surgery, hormone treatments, and without necessarily even informing their parents, should be allowed to use the girls locker rooms and showers.

And the fear is not necessarily transgender people attacking anyone. The number of known cases is very small, because 1) the population of transgenders is incredibly small, and 2) it’s not something that police depts keep statistics on. The fear is ordinary males taking advantage of the policy, which has already happened on many occasions, so it’s not a “non issue”.

McCloskey goes on to ask: “How is it to be enforced? DNA testing by the TSA at every bathroom door?” Well, let’s flip that around. If you allow trans people to use their preferred facilities, how is that to be enforced? Asking for proof of hormone medication? A doctor’s note? Then what?

Trans-activists have been saying for a long time that “sex is not gender”. If your driver’s license or birth certificate denotes sex, it shoudn’t be changed. Your sex at birth is a medical fact, it’s not something that changes on a whim. And it’s beyond ludicrous to whine to Harvard, begging them to change the diploma to Radcliffe! The University you graduated from is also a fact, not an opinion subject to whim. That’s simply not a person grounded in reality.

]]> By: Boblipton https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/05/deirdre-mccloskey-transgender-bathroom-story/comment-page-1/#comment-336375 Wed, 18 May 2016 18:14:53 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=59217#comment-336375 Au contraire, Wfjag, During college, my summer job was as a janitor in an office building. When cleaned the rest rooms, the men’s rooms required mopping. The ladies’ rooms required scrubbing of toilets and sinks. Plus the emergency calls from tenants about rest rooms, which occurred a couple of times a weeks were almost always about used tampons.

Bob

]]> By: Wfjag https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/05/deirdre-mccloskey-transgender-bathroom-story/comment-page-1/#comment-336368 Wed, 18 May 2016 13:36:57 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=59217#comment-336368 Given the general differences in hygiene standards, I doubt that most women either want men using their restrooms or to use men’s restrooms. In a hurry, point and shoot sometimes means point and miss.

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