The Risk of Choice
Though we may not agree on wither or not transgender individuals should be able to choose what restroom they use, we can agree that there is at least one big issue that comes to play when allowing the transgender community to choose their preferred bathroom: sexual harassment.
Many activists have urged that transgender people should be able to go to which ever bathroom they feel more comfortable in; now although it sounds like a nice idea, it doesn’t work because there are people out there who do stupid things for their own gain; allowing this bathroom policy to pass would only make it easier for sexual predators to harass and abuse the public.
One of the many examples of sexual predators using these bathroom rights for
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Another example for this would be from Toronto; a man by the name of Hambrook claimed to be a transgender woman by the name of Jessica; Hambrook sexually abused a handful of women in women’s shelters in Toronto due to his access to the women’s bathrooms because of his apparent identity; the source quotes… “Her tights had been pulled down past her bottom and her bathing suit had been pulled to the side,” reads a court document of one of the incidents. “She yelled at the accused, demanding to know what he was doing. He simply covered his face with his hands, said ‘Oops!’ and started giggling.” …. “Court also heard evidence of Hambrook terrorizing a deaf woman living in the shelter. “The accused grabbed the complainant’s hand and forcibly placed it on his crotch area while his penis was erect,” court heard. The same deaf