22 1 / 2010
A social values issue? Really?
File this in my “incredibly irritated by this assinine bullshit” category of posts. According to Questioning Transphobia, Paul Scott (running for Michigan Secretary of State) has one of his TOP FOUR campaign priorities as:
I will make it a priority to ensure transgender individuals will not be allowed to change the sex on their driver’s license in any circumstance.
Why?
“It’s a social values issue. If you are born a male, you should be known as a male. Same as with a female, she should be known as a female,” he said.
When asked to explain how such a mandate from the Secretary of State would benefit Michigan, he said it was about “preventing people who are males genetically from dressing as a woman and going into female bathrooms.”
Really? Ugh, I don’t even know what to say. Well, I know a few things.
- Who the hell checks I.D.’s at bathroom doors?
- Why does this ”bathroom defense” always come up during these arguments? Has there ever been a case of a transgender individual using their trans status to justify doing something obscene that was done in the bathroom? I don’t think so.
- Do you really want people who look and identify as male to be FORCED to use FEMALE bathrooms? How on earth would this fix anything? I would feel uncomfortable if there was someone who was obviously a male in the female bathroom. Paul Scott wants these people to use their “assigned at birth sex” bathroom - when they live and are known as a completely different gender?
- This is seriously one of his MAIN CAMPAIGN GOALS? Really?
I could go on. But I won’t, because I’m crabby about this subject.
