April 8, 2017
The Texas Transgender Problem: Defending SB 6
A storm of big businesses, celebrities, and global investors have come out against Texas Senate Bill 6, which prohibits individuals from using public bathrooms and changing facilities opposite of their biological sex. In reaction to the bill, liberal activists have argued that transgender Texans – that is, Texans who consider themselves members of the sex opposite their own – have been using bathrooms for years with no reports of them doing anything inappropriate in those spaces. In order to test this claim, a survey of transgender incidents in Texas is reviewed.
One of the shortcomings of pro-transgender cases is that they consider only assault and rape as sex crimes. However, sex crimes comprise not just rape and assault, but also voyeurism, indecent exposure, and violation of reasonable expectation of privacy. In addition, anti-transgender arguments tend to focus on the harm males cause females but don't consider the ramifications of...(Read Full Article)