I make claims of "BS" because it IS BS. I feel as solid about that claim as I do about claiming that the earth is round instead of flat. In other words, you will convince not one single person, no matter how gullible, that women accept or even prefer men using their privately segregated hygiene areas.
You might as well stop now. Save face. You're claiming the earth is flat and you're going to get laughed out of every room you claim that in. Just look at the number of views this thread has. You probably think that number equals "people eager to see that men win the "right" to share showers etc. with women". Everyone else though sees that number QUITE a different way...
Post-ops look right, so that's no issuse, and pre-ops are mostly kids, who you need not worry about.
Not really, but that's neither here nor there.
Let me break it down for you, Chuckles, since linear logic is clearly not your forte.
1) No one has claimed that transgenders themselves are any more criminally-minded than anyone else. That isn't the point, since true transgenders are so statistically miniscule that they're practically non-existent. The safety issue comes from the fact that you cannot make a rule that men who identify as women can use women's facilities without throwing it open to ANY man who chooses to say that he identifies as a woman, because how on Earth would you verify and enforce such a thing? Are security guards at Target going to take blood tests to see if they're receiving hormone treatments? Don't be ridiculous. The only option is going to be to take their word for it, ie. simply pay no attention to who goes into the bathroom until AFTER an incident has already happened.
Now, sex offenders actually make up a much higher percentage of the population than transgenders do. Their activities are also a hell of a lot more prolific than transgender visits to public restroom facilities are (seriously, how often do YOU use a public restroom, versus how many times a week does a pervert molest his target victim group?) They discovered a long time ago what a great hunting ground public facilities are for them. Why do you think parents don't let their young children go to the john by themselves long past the point when the kids are capable of toileting without assistance? Up until now, sex offenders had to sneak into the restrooms and worry about being caught and arrested before they could do anything, simply because any alert employee who saw them would report them to security. Now, they can just la de dah in there, secure in the knowledge that no one is going to dare to say a word to them until AFTER they've committed their crimes and made their escape. Thank you SO MUCH for your blase attitude toward my safety and what I "need not worry about", you woman-hating, self-absorbed prick.
2) The larger issue here is that it's not your place to make decisions about what I do and do not worry about or feel uncomfortable with in regards to MY body and MY safety. I do not belong to you. My body does not belong to you. You are not the one who is going to have to live with the consequences of a bad decision about my safety. I can assure you that there are millions more women and children out there who feel uncomfortable, unsafe, and violated by your smug, self-righteous "new morality" on the subject than there are transgenders who feel uncomfortable, unsafe, and violated by the notion that they should use the facilities designated for their anatomy, if only because there are millions more women and children than there are transgenders.
So you tell me, Spanky. In the structuring of a society to allow the most freedom, safety, respect, and functionality to the most people possible, whose position is mathematically the most likely to achieve that? Yours or mine?