At 2:12 pm on 7-18-2019 Hangsleft posted that straight white men shouldn't be in the same room as women because they [I am not sure which group this "they" was referring to] cannot be trusted to control themselves. And, today at 9:48am the same poster wrote "There is more likely someone at your family reunion that has committed sexual assault than the local public restroom." Earlier (at 5:53 am on the same date) the poster had written "You have a much greater chance getting sexual abused at a family reunion than by a transgender at the YMCA." At 7:58 Hangsleft wrote "But statistics show that you would have at least one male [family] member that has commit sexual assault at a reunion."
On 07-21-2019 at 11:03 am and again at 12:13 pm Shouldawouldacoulda refereed to the sexual abuses that take place in some churches and referred to that crime's frequency.
In the interest of accuracy and to show my contrition I will rewrite my post of 9:17am today to properly reflect what has been said. I have indicated the appropriate changes in bold face just so there is less confusion.
"Hangs; I would be interested to see where you find your statistics about the number of males who have committed a sexual assault. I would also think one would have to more precisely define "Family member" in order to to put the statistics in context. Are we limiting "family member" to third cousins and closer or what?
Antithesis: I agree that there are a lot more documented cases of transgendered persons being the victims of crimes rather than the criminal [Referring to a post on this thread at 9:14pm on 7-22-2019]. However, there are cases of transgendered persons committing sexual assaults as well. I provided a link to a website earlier in this thread that chronicled some of those cases.
You [still referring to Antithesis] also sated correctly that there are no documented cases of people being arrested for pretending to be transgendered in order to "sneak a peek." Quite simply there is no law (that I am aware of) against pretending to be transgendered. Sadly, merely claiming to be transgendered is a ready-made defense against such a charge [a violation of "Peeping Tom" statutes.] While perverts and pedophiles are disgusting and, in my opinion, evil they are not necessarily dumb. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to realize that by merely claiming "I feel like a woman today" any man can walk into the women's showers at Rose's Gym with no fear of repercussion. As "Smalltownman" so eloquently pointed out [at 8:17pm on 7-22-2019] such people are not required to wear name tags of ID badges.
The logical conclusion from all of this is we ought to keep men out of the women's showers. If we believe Hangsleft and Shoulda then men are taking advantage of every opportunity (even family reunions and church services) to sexually assault women. "Smalltownman" points out that we can't identify the good guys from the bad guys just by looking and as Antithesis points out there is no penalty for a bad guy pretending to be a good guy.
By the simple administration of a rule that requires males to stay out of the females' showers in public gyms we could provide a safe place for women that exceeds that of a family reunion held at a church-at least according to Shoulda and Hang's reasoning."