Well, what better way to harm women than to allow male predators to just tell you they're a woman?

And if you don't want to admit that, that's misogynistic because you're not really protecting women because you think you by protecting, well, we have to protect all women because trans women are women.

For instance, a lot of folks sincerely care about trans people's right to exist, and therefore they take the attempts this administration is making to erase them to be disturbing and something that needs to be fought back against.

Trump's administration can force government agencies to remove any recognition of these identities, and people will be rightly upset about that.

Maybe there is a certain amount of denial that is being... Sort of taken away in as much as the policies that have been enacted make trans existence in public more or less illegal.

This is a load of disgusting bullshit. And Oprah's comments were about how difficult it is to wrestle with having been abused as a child because of the confusion that comes along with it. Alex is lying to demonize an already vulnerable population and run cover for the fact that the GOP, particularly in Florida, are actively banning a ton of books that aren't pedophilic but are just things that make white conservatives Very uncomfortable. Alex is doing this because he wants those kind of books banned, but he also knows that calling for banning books that make him uncomfortable looks really bad, so he just pretends it's about something that's a little bit more defensible, even though the thing he claims it about, it's not happening.

In order to make their violent rhetoric seem defensible to their audience, they have to pretend that stories like the one from that camp are about grown men sleeping or showering with 5th grade girls, because if they actually expressed their real grievance, it would be way too obvious that they were full of hate and bigotry. They don't come to their audience and say that they're mad that trans or non-binary people are allowed to have jobs in places where kids might be, because in reality what they're saying is that they don't think that children should have any exposure to trans or non-binary people, which ultimately leads to...

The ultimate desire here is, if not complete eradication, then segregation. It is going right back, and it's the same thing with everything. It's going right back to, okay, trans kids cannot be in school with cisgender kids. Trans kids cannot drink at the same fucking water fountains. That is not an exaggeration. That is the desire. That is what they want.

I mean, even if the story was exactly what she characterized it as. Even if she was 100% getting the story itself right. It is still not about biological men causing harm to women or children. It's about one person who's committed a crime. But again, most importantly, it's not about men. It's not about men, period. It is about trans people.

That's an absurd premise. The idea that trans people are now the new blacks is stupid and reductive. The idea that trans people are mentally ill gays is offensive.

Okay, so he frames the trans bathroom bill as your parents of a daughter, and you're intolerant because... It seems like your daughter is going into a bathroom where a big old man's penis is just waiting for her.

These instances were all dudes dressed up like women to get into bathrooms to videotape people in the bathrooms. Right. This is not the issue that we're talking about. That can happen with or without this bill.

And if you are in a women's bathroom, or if you're in a men's bathroom as a trans person... There is a way higher chance that you are the one who will be sexually assaulted. Yes. And by way higher chance, I mean there is zero chance that it goes the other direction.