When Fear Overrides Reason

No matter how many times we say that there has never been a case where a woman was attacked by a trans-person, the right-wing conservatives still use it against us. They use innuendos to create fear of trans-people.

MD police official: Transgender rights bill did not lead to rapes, assaults in public restrooms
LGBTQ Nation
By Brody Levesque
January 20, 2012

TOWSON, Md. — Montgomery County police chief Thomas Manger says that allegations that rapes and sexual assaults occurred in public restrooms following passage of a transgender accommodation law are “untrue.”

The assertion comes in response to opposition to a transgender rights bill introduced Tuesday in Baltimore County, Md., by freshman Democratic councilman Tom Quirk — his bill would protect transgender people and allow use of restrooms according to their gender identity.
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“Promoted as a ‘gender identity anti-discrimination bill,’ Human Relations Bill No. 3-12 forces the public to recognize men as women, thereby allowing men access to women’s bathrooms, This takes away from a woman being a woman,” Jacobs [president of Maryland Citizens for a Responsible Government] said.

The truth doesn’t matter them. They just see people who are different form them and hate them. We faced the same opposition here in Connecticut, the opposition did everything to try to label our bill the “Bathroom Bill” but they couldn’t make it stick.