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More likely than not, you haven’t been arrested or even looked at strangely when using public restrooms. But this is the nightmare trans-identified people have to face every single day. Transgender people need justice; we have the ability to take one small step in the right direction to assuring they are on their way to no longer being treated as second-class citizens, and we can take that small step by affirming this bill.
CONTENTION 1: TRANSGENDER PEOPLE ARE NOT PREDATORS AND SHOULD NOT BE TREATED LIKE PARIAHS.
Writer and queer comic Red Durkin sparked debate this past August on Twitter when she tweeted the statement “More United States senators have been arrested for sexual misconduct in bathrooms than trans women.” And while specific cases of sexual misconduct in public restrooms by senators may be hard to track, (besides, of course, …show more content…
There have been none in the past. Stories have been fabricated by anti-LGBT groups and spread by conservative news outlets of cases in which males claiming to be transgender allegedly harassed females in restrooms. One example of this, according to a 2014 Media Matters article, is when the Christian Broadcasting Network reported that a male student pretended to be trans to harass female students. This story was determined to be false when the school superintendent was questioned and he reported no incidents of harassment at the high school. Media Matters also reported in their article what experts said from states with laws similar to this bill. There has been “no increase in sex crimes due to 2001 law” in Rhode Island and “no problems since passage of [the] 2011 law” in

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