http://uproxx.com/tv/seth-meyers-bathrooms-battlegrounds/
“When conservatives claim that trans people are preying on children and that they shouldn’t be allowed to use the bathroom they want to use, it’s not a response to an actual problem. It’s an age-old scam used to mobilize people against a vulnerable minority group. But attacking someone who’s different than you doesn’t make you a protector of children. It makes you a villager in a Disney movie. You know who actually needs protection? Trans people.”
Meyers followed up his statements about protecting transgender people, and not the hypothetical innocent children being paraded around by Republican politicians and pundits, with statistics pulled from
a recent Washington Postarticle debunking five major myths about the transgender community. The first myth addressed? That “transgender people pose a threat in public bathrooms.” According to op-ed columnist Jack Drescher, a practicing psychiatrist “who specializes in gender identity and sexuality,” such a belief is “flat-out wrong.”
For example, many cities and schools in the state of Maryland ban bathroom discrimination of any kind. Using
Politifact numbers, Drescher undermined this conservative claim with the fact that “there have been no reported cases of such laws leading to harassment.” Instead, bathroom bills like HB2 might actually prove dangerous for trans people, as 70 percent
claimed in one studythey’d been “harassed, assaulted or denied access when attempting to use a public bathroom.”