Should Trans People be allowed to use opposite sex bathrooms?

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I'll admit, I'm guilty of using the Men's restroom myself occasionally when I REALLY need it and the Woman's bathroom is occupied/doesn't have soap/is disgusting....😳

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Great then you can't act shocked or offended when men do it when it is convenient. It is a simple concept.

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Poster child for the anti-trans movement:

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Poster child for the anti-trans movement:

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This guy really disgusts me

Because

he is going along with the use of the rainbow-fist word 'cis-gender'

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Poster child for the anti-trans movement:

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This guy really disgusts me

Because

he is going along with the use of the rainbow-fist word 'cis-gender'

Yet his Nazi paraphernalia sits fine with you. I am not surprised.

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Within hours of one another on Friday, federal courts in Tennessee and Kentucky handed down judgments that block the implementation of bans on gender-affirming care. Both federal judges found the bans to likely be in violation of the Constitution. These decisions marked the fifth and sixth victories for transgender care this year, as the judiciary continues to rule that gender affirming care bans unconstitutionally violate due process and equal protection under the law.

Diving into the details, these rulings, like their predecessors, dissect the arguments against transgender rights, systematically addressing and countering the rhetoric that Republican legislators have uncritically accepted. They ultimately rule that gender affirming care bans have no legitimacy under constitutional scrutiny.

Particularly significant is the lack of partisanship in these rulings: the presiding judge in Tennessee, Judge Eli Richardson, was appointed by former President Donald Trump, as were judges in Indiana and Alabama. Richardson resoundingly dismissed claims that gender-affirming care is either experimental or detrimental to the welfare of transgender youth. Moreover, the court recognized and underscored the abundance of medical evidence in favor of gender-affirming care and struck down Tennessee’s “medical” witnesses as not credible.

These court decisions signal a mounting legal consensus that legislation aiming to limit gender-affirming care lacks a constitutional basis. States that have attempted to pass such laws now sit at a dismal 0-6 record in defending these laws in court.

Federal judges in all of these cases have lent their weight to the importance of parental rights and decided that “parental rights” issues favor transgender plaintiffs. They upheld that the right of parents to make informed decisions about their children's medical care is fundamental, meriting strict scrutiny. With this heightened judicial standard, any legislation that curtails such rights must be narrowly tailored and supported by an exceptionally persuasive rationale. The courts discerned that the sweeping nature of the gender-affirming care bans failed to meet these criteria. Consequently, the judges concluded that the bans infringe on plaintiffs’ rights to due process.

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At the outset, the Court agrees with Plaintiffs that the testimony of Dr. Cantor and Dr. Hruz
is minimally persuasive39 given that neither of them state that they have ever diagnosed or treated
a minor with gender dysphoria. This apparent deficiency in their experience as to the topics to
which they testify is relevant given that Plaintiffs present several experts that have diagnosed and
treated hundreds of individuals with gender dysphoria. This diminution of their testimony is
consistent with the findings of other courts on this issue.

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Diaper changing stations have only recently been implemented in Men's restrooms. Previously they were only in Women's restrooms, which made it extremely hard for say a Dad who has custody of a baby or Toddler to change diapers while out and about. I can imagine a divorced Dad being chastised in say 2015 for changing his baby's diaper in the Women's restroom and having to say something like,"I'm not a creep, I'm just changing my baby's diaper since the men's restroom doesn't have a diaper changing station!"