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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Have You Noticed? There's Not One Horror Story From States With Gender-Neutral Bathrooms

In 2006 New Yorker Claudia Charriez reached the semi-finals of America’s Next Top Model 
but was ultimately disqualified for being transgender

Alan: I live in central North Carolina, a state where Claudia Charriez (the transgender male>female pictured above) is legally obligated to use The Men's Room. 

 Inconvenient Truth: Almost always, everyone in a "Men's Room" -- or a "Women's Room" -- will feel more comfortable if transgenders use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity rather than the bathroom that does not correspond to their gender identity. That's because "everyone in the room" is overwhelmingly likely to see everyone else in the room as belonging to their own gender. 

 But as soon Claudia shows up in The Men's Room, look TF out!

There is significantly more danger of physical assault when transgenders use public bathrooms corresponding to their birth certificate "sex" rather than public bathrooms corresponding to their gender identification.

An Inconvenient Question: How will "authorities" challenge/probe an individual's sexuality to determine what's listed on his or her birth certificate? 

 Will they ask Claudia Charriez to let them peek in her pants? 

 Will they follow the president's noble lead and "just grab her by the pussy?"

Or, might North Carolina residents need to carry birth certificates as their ticket "the john?"

By virtue of its absence, I have noticed that North Carolina media have not (to my knowledge) reported a single credible case of sex abuse that took place because of "gender neutral" bathroom laws in other states.

On one hand, this "radio silence" corresponds to the fact that "there is NOTHING to report." 

On the other hand, we confront the "precious" sensibilities of squeaky-wheel scaredy-cats whose bogus conservatism, in psychological terms, makes them "afraid of their own shadow."

Psychological Projection

The Evangelical Persecution Complex (Projection's Finest Hour?)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-evangelical-persecution-complex.html

Psychological Projection Indicts "The Good Christians," Not The People They Indict

"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"


In order to protect their "precious" (and appallingly impertinent) principles, conservatives double down on "frightful anecdotes" and "vanishingly rare instances of bathroom abuse" in order to protect the increasingly shakey "beliefs" that lie at the heart of their theo-philosophical Absolutism.
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

More Merton Quotes
Absolutism -- coupled with stonewall exclusion of Relativity -- is behind all of contemporary "conservatism's" "Too Pure Principles."

When conservatives insist on "Absolutely Pure Principles" -- and then spew statistically insignificant anecdotes to keep them on "life support" -- I recall a conservative complaint from my youth: "It is unfair to make me wear a seatbelt because I want to be thrown clear of the car." 

 Honest to God! That was the exact phrase the dimwits used: "I want to be thrown clear of the car."

 Notably, there is NOT ONE NASCAR or Formula 1 driver who gets behind the wheel of his "street vehicle" without buckling up first.

"Do Republicans Do Anything But Piss, Moan, Whine, Bitch?
(They certainly don't do healthcare...)
Note well.

 Through study and pracitical experience, "informed people" actually know things that "make believers" don't. 

 And these truths - like all truth - set them, and all of us, free.

Kennedy On The Linchpin Responsibility Of The Educated. (Malala Weighs In)


Here is the underlying ruse by which American conservatives delude both themselves and others...

 From a conservative ideologue's point of view, what MUST be protected is not the ostensible "object" of conservative "concern" but rather the absolute inviolability of (supposed) individual "freedom" even if it takes one-in-a-million anecdotes to try to stave off The Very High Tides of statistical validitation.

In The Modern Era, Responsible Citizenship Requires That People Understand Statistics Well Enough To Know That Anecdotes And "Exceptions-To-Rules" Have No Scientifcally Valid Meaning


 At bottom, conservative ideology -- at least in its post-Reagan incarnation -- is a highly self-interested (and frequently selfish) means for preserving "identity" in order to avoid the identity disintegration which typically appears as "a fate worse than death."

From the "conservative" "Christian" point of view, God could not possibly "make a mistake" about gender affiliation!

 And so, every declaration of transgender identification must be negated to maintain core "identity beliefs" -- usually conservative Christian beliefs -- including the tenet that God is not only a "miracle worker" who can, through prayer, set any "gender error" straight but who would never "assign a transgender" that conflicts with one's birth certificate sex.

 These conservative Christians claim to be "saving souls" -- and many may even believe their own rationalization -- but at bottom they are protecting themselves from the rigors of metanoia. 

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On "Too Pure Principles" And The Collapse Of Conservatism
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-gop-and-obamacare-governing-by.html


Debunking Transgender Myth
11/28/2015
Excerpt: When looking at this statistically, it is pretty easy to understand why this is true statistically. Over the 35 year history of NDOs protecting transgender people all over the world, only one case of a person abusing an NDO and committing sexual assault (in Canada) has ever been found, even by those most interested in demonizing transgender people.
Think about that for a moment.
Every NDO, every person, every bathroom, every day, every trip to the loo, for 35 years, and it’s happened once in the entire world.
For sake of context, the FBI reports that over 84,000 rapes were reported in 2014 alone, none of which exploited gender identity inclusive NDOs to commit sexual assault. To put the relative risk of people misusing NDOs in perspective another way statistically, five Americans have been shot by dogs in the past five years. Similarly, 450 people per year in the US are killed by falling out of bed.
No Research Suggests NDOs are Part of the Problem of Sexual Assault
Rape culture in the US is a tremendous problem that needs to be addressed with serious proposals. Peer-reviewed research and literature has looked at how to reduce rape for decades. Some new methods at US universities are showing success. None of the literature or proposals mentions barring transgender people from bathrooms, or eliminating gender identity inclusive NDOs, as a way to bring down the number of sexual assaults in the United States...

 ... For sake of context, the FBI reports that over 84,000 rapes were reported in 2014 alone, none of which exploited gender identity inclusive NDOs to commit sexual assault. To put the relative risk of people misusing NDOs in perspective another way statistically, five Americans have been shot by dogs in the past five years. Similarly, 450 people per year in the US are killed by falling out of bed.



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