Monday 25 April 2016

Rob Schofield on the myth of the bathroom predator

It's a bulging briefcase with literally nothing inside:

When I pressed him to produce one credibly documented example in which a man had dressed as a woman in order to invade a women’s restroom and then used a law that allowed entry by people based on gender identity to successfully avoid arrest or prosecution, he told me I could “Google it” and find lots of instances. As Raleigh’s News & Observer and Politifact confirmed at some length in a recent story, however, this appears to be an urban myth.

You would expect a reaction like that from a Facebook troll, but a staffer from Art Pope's faux-Libertarian propaganda machine should be better prepared. Then again, when there actually is no evidence to race around, "Google it" is about all you can say. Hat-tip to Rob and the Salisbury Post for highlighting this vicious strawman attack.


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