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Bathroom Bills

Evidence for the public safety argument in regards to bathroom bills is unsubstantiated in data.

• Hasenbush et al. 19
  • Analysis of crime & privacy violations as they relate to concerns raised by those who advocate for ‘trans bathroom bills’
  • Analysis indicates there is no empirical evidence to support these concerns; such crimes & privacy violations are exceedingly rare. Calls for trans bathroom bills are fear mongering, plain and simple.
• NatCen: Curtice et al 19
  • A vast majority of cis women are not, in fact, concerned about which facilities transgender people use.
  • "72% of women said that they were “very” or “quite comfortable” with a transgender woman using a "female toilet"
  • This one excludes the "neither comfortable nor uncomfortable" answer which was another 14% from the 2017 survey
• Media Matters: Percelay 15
  • Non-academic source with liberal leanings; nonetheless legitimate findings
  • Organization contacted officials at the largest school districts in 12 states with gender identity protections on the books
  • School districts were asked if there were “any incidences of harassment or inappropriate behavior” as a result of “allowing transgender students to access facilities they're comfortable with.”
  • 0 school districts (which represent over 600,000 students) have had any increase incidents of harassment or inappropriate behavior after the law passed
• Specific Debunks:
  • Colorado high school incident - claimed that a trans woman was harassing other girls in a high school bathroom
    • Debunk - an interview with the school’s superintendent confirms that this never happened
  • Joey Salads experiment - Salads dresses up how he thinks a trans woman would, and goes into a women’s restroom, receiving negative responses from others in the scene
    • [Video] Debunk - Salads misrepresented the behaviour of trans women and used a single-person restroom, so his whole experiment was probably staged. A replication of the experiment got no negative responses from others in the scene
  • Dallas incident - Trans women allegedly taking photos of children in women’s restrooms
    • Debunk - the website’s about page says “And here we are today, to bring you nothing but pure horse shit... This should go without saying, but everything on this website is purely for entertainment purposes. We are in no way affiliated, or trying to look like we are affiliated with any local news station.”