Infuriating. These are not bathroom bill cases. The thing the bathroom bills claim to be addressing isn't even an actual live problem occurring in places with trans anti-discrimination laws.
And yet this illusory fear dominates even tangential discussions.
And yet this illusory fear dominates even tangential discussions.
One of the problems here is that people simply don't know that we've had trans anti-discrimination laws in many places going back to the mid-1990s.
People think this is new and scary, a problem to be solved. In fact, it's so unremarkable you didn't even know it was going on.
People think this is new and scary, a problem to be solved. In fact, it's so unremarkable you didn't even know it was going on.
Minnesota, for example, has had trans anti-discrimination protections for 25 years without the dreaded "men in the ladies room" problem.
The degree to which this fear has suddenly surged into the public consciousness suggests it's a moral panic.
The degree to which this fear has suddenly surged into the public consciousness suggests it's a moral panic.
