When the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance was defeated, the ostensible reason was that Non-Discrimination Ordinances (NDOs) which include gender identity allow criminals to pretend to be transgender in order to gain access to bathrooms for nefarious purposes, and that sexual assaults and rapes in women's rooms would increase. The problem is, absolutely nothing in that sentence is actually true. NDOs don't make Illegal Behavior Legal It is illegal, regardless of whether an NDO is in place, to enter a bathroom to harm or harass people. When sexual predators do commit sexual assault in bathrooms, they don't need to pretend to be transgender and exploit NDOs to do so. People commit also acts of...
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