SecondWar said:
The thing I always find ironic about the bathroom debate is that the bathroom laws actually don't change anything. They are supposedly brought in to stop pervvy men going into women's toilets and watching them. Thing is, what said man is doing was illegal before the law as well. And if they are intent on peeping, the new law isn't going to persuade them not to, they'll do it anyway. Then there are FTM transpeople. They are legally forced to use to female toilets, although many of them look so stereotypically masculine you'd never guess. I imagine it must be so awkward for them, legally you have to use the ladies toilets but your physical appearance means everyone sees you as a man and your likely to get repeatedly challenged and told to use the mens. That's actually where youd rather go but it's illegal. I bet when they say their trans its then assumed they are MTF rather than FTM which then exacerbates the problem. |
If a man is going into a bathroom and was being a pervert, it would be very difficult to prove that. It would be impossible to prove that a man looking where he wasn't supposed to was doing so intentionally. Even if he said or did something, it would become a he said she said situation. In contrast, demonstrating that a man went into a woman's bathroom would generally be much easier.
By making it illegal (I don't know if it actually is, but lets assume) we accomplish two things. First, we make deter men from entering the bathroom in the first place, lessening the likelihood that a woman is harassed to begin with. Second, we make it so that in cases where there is a harassment, women have some sort of recourse. Even if they can't prove the actual harassment, they can prove the... I guess we'll call it trespassing.
Whether that actually works or not, that's the theory behind it.
