A Dirty Little Secret About the "Bathroom Law"

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A few days ago @Berniezeitler wrote a discussion about the "Bathroom of Choice," a growing controversy in the U.S. springing from a tiny minority of people demanding the right to use the bathroom they want to use instead of one associated with their actual birth gender. (Please make sure you read Bernie's discussion.) This has caused such a stir in North Carolina that Bruce Springsteen canceled a concert in Greensboro in protest over the state barring such laws. (See my recent discussion about it.) I have a problem with 300 million people being inconvenienced for the "rights" of 700,000 people. That's right -- pro-gay web sites say that there are only about 700,000 transgendered people in the United States. And for that -- the approximate population of Memphis, Tennessee or Austin, Texas -- people are getting in an uproar. The North Carolina so-called "Bathroom Law" was brought about to counter a law passed in Charlotte, NC that allowed people to use the public restrooms corresponding with the gender they identified with (without any proof, mind you), not their biological gender. (Again, remember, we're talking 700,000 total transgendered people in America, so you may have 30 or 40 people who are truly transgendered in Charlotte.). One of the major complaints is that people are afraid that men would have used this "pick your own bathroom" law to gain access to restrooms, where they can do anything from be a peeping tom to commit rape. People claim that's outrageous, but there is a dirty little secret about the North Carolina law that gives credence to those fears. The chief proponent for getting the Charlotte law passed allowing anyone access to the bathroom of their choosing is a man named Chad Sevearance-Turner. He was the head of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce. He is also a convicted sex offender. He was convicted in 2000 of sexually molesting a 15-year-old boy while working as a youth minister in a South Carolina church in 1998. Once the fact that the man working so hard for the law to be passed is a convicted sex offender was brought to light Sevearance-Turner promptly resigned from the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce, but not before the law he championed had been passed. That, coupled with the fact that there are already documented cases of "straight" men using the law to gain access to women's restrooms and showers, should set warning bells off. I have a simple philosophy: if you want to be a woman, stop dressing like one, go get your "man parts" removed and become a woman. Otherwise, go use the urinal. There aren't any urinals in the women's rooms. (Not to mention the fact that there's going to be uproars over the toilet seats left up! ) An article about the Charlotte law that prompted the passage of North Carolina's "Bathroom Law":