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Again With The Bathrooms

by: Autumn Sandeen

Wed Mar 11, 2009 at 13:18:23 PM EDT

From Opposing Views's OPINION: Maryland Gender Identity Bill Endangers
Women and Kids<http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-maryland-gender-identity-bill-endangers-women-and-kids>:

Women and children will face one of the greatest threats to privacy, safety
and security that Maryland residents have ever known with the passage of a
"Gender Identity" bill now before Maryland House and Senate legislators.

The proposed law adds a broadly defined category of "gender identity" to the
state's existing anti-discrimination law. Because the bill's broad
definition of "gender identity" includes "expression and behavior," men are
not required to have undergone a sex change operation. The Maryland
Retailers Association has purportedly agreed to allow men to enter women's
bathrooms.

"The effect of this bill is to give special rights to men who want to dress
like women, but completely disregards the safety of vulnerable women and
children," notes Ruth Jacobs, M.D., president of Maryland Citizens for a
Responsible Government. "Restrooms and showers will be opened up to
cross-dressing or female affirming men thereby allowing undressing in front
of women and children in a woman's locker room."

..."If it is not dropped, then exemptions similar to the Baltimore City law
stating 'It is not discrimination for any person to provide separate toilet
facilities for males and females' and other exemptions as signed by [then
mayor and now] Governor Martin O'Malley should be included." ...

How appropriate is it for the name of the Opposing Views website to post
an opinion piece like this one? I know I couldn't be more opposed to their
conclusions.

But, to my point about what's wrong with the fears expressed in this
opposition piece about bathroom predators -- Maryland Citizens for a
Responsible Government <http://www.notmyshower.com/> needs to be able to
tell us exactly how many predators across the nation have crossdressed and
entered women's restrooms to do harm to women and children. Their argument
needs statistics, and this organization doesn't have 'em.

If Maryland Citizens for a Responsible Government can cite some real world
examples that back why their fears should guide public policy, I'd like to
see these examples. So far, all I see from the organization is arrguments
that seem to be based on irrational fears.

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