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With Nancy Mace in tow, Lauren Boebert raises false alarm over 'a guy' in Capitol Hill women's room

Lycanthrope said:
No, you have it wrong.

I don't think anti-trans right wingers are doing it because they are evil just for the thrill of being evil, anymore than I think they are antigay just to be evil. I think the true believers are doing it because they feel they are holding their finger in the moral dike (pun deliciously intended) that preserves the country from the flames of perdition. Just like I think they don't hate you or my lesbian daughter per se, but are fully prepared to marginalize and demonize you both out of a grandiose sense of saving the nation and souls from demonic sexual depravity.

Like the antigay agenda in America, the antitrans agenda is borne out of (as you say) fear. It's just that (like that line from the movie GI Jane) currently transgendered are the new n-word on the block and it's easier for the right to go after them with less blowback.
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I'm not 100% sure about this one; there's probably part of that, and that's certainly an appeal that people make, but I think it's an excuse.



I've spent a lot of time talking to these people and trying to understand them. They're going to have, and I remember years ago the thing that was the topic was I was born that way, or no, you can change your sexuality. This was the argument, and there are people dead set committed to this argument.



I think it's more personal. There are things I think are bad for society, and we probably shouldn't do them, but I'm not going to go around and tell people that they're not born in a certain way because of it. It's like maybe we should think about this; maybe that's just a more reasonable approach to something.



But I really think it's personal, and they don't like the philosophy that "there but for the grace of God go I," which expresses that they don't really have any control over it; it was the luck of the draw that they happened to be heterosexual, and that bothers them. Ask themselves, because they could have a son or a daughter or a grandson or granddaughter or brother or sister themselves that could very easily be gay, and they will have to readjust their viewpoints, and that is sometimes the hardest thing for certain people to do, especially when they're connected to religion.



So I don't want to discount your point because I think that's part of it, but I don't think that it's all of it.
 
justoneman said:
They do not want men in their bathroom. It is a very normal position.
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So is your so-called "men" using their bathroom a very normal position. They've been doing it for over 100 years in the Capitol restrooms without issue. Only now, since the GOP has made them into a threat to our very way of life has it suddenly become an issue.
 
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