“Our side concocted the ‘bathroom safety’ male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions.” This was from 2018, they were bragging about how they manufacturing a moral panic. www.thepinknews.com/2018/12/07/a... - ThreadSky

caseyexplosion.bsky.social • 105 days ago

“Our side concocted the ‘bathroom safety’ male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions.”

This was from 2018, they were bragging about how they manufacturing a moral panic.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2018/12/07/anti-trans-group-bathroom-predator-myth/

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pesquilinha.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

ryanburchett.bsky.social•98 days ago

We have to stop thinking people like this are making good faith arguments. They're taking advantage of the good nature of others.

anymouse68.bsky.social•105 days ago

I am Jack's utter lack of surprise...

galacticmompire.bsky.social•105 days ago

WOW WHAT A FUCKING SHOCKER

artemisnow.bsky.social•105 days ago

And we. reacted just as they knew we would.

keithf1138.bsky.social•105 days ago

Don’t forget the predators in this nonsense aren’t trans. They are cis men dressing as women to assault women. Already criminal.

shaenon.bsky.social•105 days ago

The bathroom panic was previously used to attack gay rights, women's rights, and civil rights. People keep falling for the same cheap tricks.

ghastwoodniall.bsky.social•105 days ago

It’s weird how obsessed the right are with bathrooms🤔 it’s almost like they’re the ones that shouldn’t be trusted

quantum-steep.bsky.social•105 days ago

have you seen how many of those guys are sexual predators? "alarming" is an understatement. what is wrong with these people

ghastwoodniall.bsky.social•105 days ago

There was a woman on TikTok who posted who was being arrested for predatory acts on children. The original purpose was highlighting claims against drag queens and drag queen story time. Every week, hundreds of “trusted” men charged, there were 1 or 2 trans women every few weeks, no drag queens.

nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social•105 days ago

Yes. I'm old enough to remember the 1970s-80s 'predatory lesbians in changing rooms' nonsense.

spiraldragonfly.bsky.social•105 days ago

I heard someone (a woman) make that argument in 2012, at a workplace in New England. "I don't want some woman checking me out in the locker room."

shaenon.bsky.social•105 days ago

They just did a search and replace from "lesbians" to "trans women," they're so damn lazy

And if they manage to drive trans women out of public life they'll go right back to attacking lesbians

nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social•105 days ago

It doesn't seem to occur to them that ppl just don't interact with others in toilets - they do what they need to, then get out. If you're in yr cubicle thinking abt what bits the person in the cubicle next door has, you're the one with the problem.

huskpixelmancer.bsky.social•104 days ago

RIGHT? Interacting with people in the bathroom is so uncomfortable 😭

I’m not going to interact with people when I just need to do my business.

nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social•104 days ago

And unless it's somewhere like a bus or railway station, there usually isn't anyone else there anyway.

veronikamirage.bsky.social•105 days ago

Right? Have you ever seen a woman come out of a restroom stall unclothed? Ever? And personally, I wear my gym clothing to the gym and out.

nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social•105 days ago

Exactly.

And I never go to gyms. Hated being forced to do sport/PE at school.

yblivion.cybernetic.gay•105 days ago

The bathroom panic was also previously used to attack desegregation.
And the sports fairness panic.

robinbougie.bsky.social•105 days ago

Exactly it's the sibling of the "won't someone think of the children?" argument that's been used for literally 100+ years by the conservatives to clap back against various progressive social freedoms and entertainment.

kylora2112.bsky.social•105 days ago

"We're going to ban trans women from women's spaces in the name of protecting cis women and girls at the same time we roll back SA/SH awareness/enforcement and refuse to ban child marriage."

rozone74.bsky.social•105 days ago

They refuse to listen when it's made clear to them they have been sharing their public bathrooms with trans people for decades. I would like to see the day when people stop announcing they are trans or LGBTQ. It makes no sense to me & I wouldn't guess or ask under any circumstances.

grumpyoldladygenx.bsky.social•105 days ago

junkan00.bsky.social•104 days ago

So, guys dressed up in drag to hijack and assault women in bathroom stalls is not real? 🤔

c5agalaxyforever.bsky.social•105 days ago

This is the one! Thank you. I was trying to find this. Their FB page way back when also posted they made it all up when Mass voters didn't fall for it. I tried to tell some people that it was all conjured up and turns out it was

stylusshade.bsky.social•104 days ago

Nahhhh.

unitedresistance.bsky.social•105 days ago

Truly despicable.

mystik-monarch.bsky.social•105 days ago

0.7% of registered sex offenders identify as trans. 96% are male…
Nobody ever looks at facts or research.

paul77slot.bsky.social•105 days ago

We all know it's concocted because if there were any instance of it ever happening...the GOP and Fox News would still be screaming about that one incident hourly. Their inability to cite a single instance is a clear indicator of the reality.

datamagic.bsky.social•105 days ago

did anyone ever really think it was real?

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•105 days ago

The idea that all these religious fundamentalist organisations like the FRC, Heritage Foundation, CitizenGO in Europe, and many others, who are coordinating anti-trans messaging and crafting anti-trans legislature, somehow aren't responsible? But a few loud trans people are? Laughable.

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•105 days ago

The billionaire funded Heritage Foundation who authored Project 2025 and is seeing their plans put into action by a far right political party funded by those same billionaires, while attempting to manufacture consensus via servile billionaire owned media companies, is also manufacturing transphobia.

danifroom.bsky.social•105 days ago

Heritage has also been sponsoring and funding international "pro-women" groups, especially in the UK

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•105 days ago

If you look at that and try to claim that those billionaire funded religious fundamentalist entities hold no responsibility, had no agency, but trans people are the cause of a backlash because we advocated for ourselves a little too enthusiastically?

You are a bullshit artist. Bullshit artist!

gcbagley.bsky.social•105 days ago

The FRC are born bullshit artists. It came into existence due to Southern Baptist support of segregated private academies, which SCOTUS outlawed in Runyon v. McCrary. It hitched it's wagon to the anti-abortion issue because "We don't like the Negras" wouldn't sell

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•105 days ago

Seeing as this thread is really popping off, remember when it came to light that UK "gender critical" campaigners were being flown out to have meetings with The Heritage Foundation? Those anti-trans ideologues are being funded by US religious fundamentalist organisations.

https://archive.is/jD9au

missingthejim.bsky.social•105 days ago

I knew from the moment "Obgerfell" dropped that there'd be a shift to the "T" part of LGBT, and that it'd be a weird and brutal fight either way. History has yet to prove me wrong.

guttergreedking.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

rajtham.bsky.social•102 days ago

Brits often say what happens in the U.K. is a few years behind the USA.

Same for the anti trans hate?

brassclothes.bsky.social•105 days ago

Yep. It’s all documented, same as CRT. The problem is that people are wholly unwilling to
believe that they’ve been manipulated into their worldview. The idea makes them hostile and they just double-down, turning that hostility back onto their manipulators’ intended targets. Works a treat.

vashtijoy.bsky.social•105 days ago

That's way late. The first big public meeting with the Heritage Foundation was in like 2015 or 2016.

akod.bsky.social•105 days ago

I thought the US had a big war in order to not have people from the UK meddle in their affairs.

s4lt0r11.bsky.social•105 days ago

This time it's symbiotic.

xyalon.bsky.social•105 days ago

It's easier for them to blame trans people for the current state of affairs than face up to their own apathy and inaction over the years.

redskull87.bsky.social•105 days ago

I concluded that if you give the choice to a right winger between cutting his own balls with a dull rusted blade and admit their own mistakes.
They choice the blade.
I don't have proof but I also don't have doubts.

cherrymagritte.bsky.social•105 days ago

Uncle rather than admit he is duplicitous in harming his favorite niece looses favorite niece forever… recent family history.

leonalurid.bsky.social•105 days ago

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•105 days ago

That's my little treat to connoisseurs of fine cinema

bonuseruptus.bsky.social•105 days ago

Every one of these places have job openings, should someone want close physical access to the architects of our misery.

charlotteinny.bsky.social•105 days ago

Someone with a lot more patience and fortitude than I have should get a job at one of those and start deploying the CIA sabotage field manual on day one.

megaholt.medsky.social•105 days ago

If I was able to keep my mouth shut and play nice, I might consider that, but I am not that good of an actress.

cassandraoftroy.bsky.social•105 days ago

It is as big a scam as the trans athlete scam.

kintarius.bsky.social•105 days ago

📌

ozzelot.bsky.social•105 days ago

I mean all myths are made up, that’s what makes them myths…

devotaj.com•105 days ago

I mean of course, but damn.

ladyamaretto.bsky.social•105 days ago

Can we say duh?

variousandsundry.bsky.social•105 days ago

Yeah no fucking shit. It was never about the bathrooms.

jpofferz.bsky.social•105 days ago

Why are you getting so aggressive at Casey over saying this? Especially when it’s part of a wider point they’re making if you read the whole thread

variousandsundry.bsky.social•105 days ago

I’m just aggressive sometimes, but it wasn’t intended to be at Casey. I was commenting on the headline. My bad.

jpofferz.bsky.social•105 days ago

Ah I see

glendamiles.bsky.social•105 days ago

For real! The countless times I tried to dig into this big lie with faux-panicked histrionic believers only confirmed that blind faith and "addicted to rage" phenomenon is very real!

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransPeople

ostrasyn.bsky.social•105 days ago

In Australia, one of the major organisations opposing marriage equality quickly rebranded from "Marriage Alliance" to "Binary Australia" to continue their "fight for traditional values."

manticorn.bsky.social•105 days ago

It's a battle they knew they'd lose. Because genital-determined fate is gross and makes no sense.

ericleitzen.bsky.social•105 days ago

I got some things I can manufacture for em

dawnlaurier.bsky.social•105 days ago

These orgs have always known they could operate in the open b/c their die-hard supporters love hearing it, their stalwart opponents notice & warn of it, but the big mushy middle they're trying to sway cannot imagine planning or staying on top of anything at such a granular level.

starlite.bsky.social•104 days ago

🤬

ginamyhill-jones.bsky.social•105 days ago

Duh.

lalouve.bsky.social•105 days ago

Their aim was to isolate trans women from other women. And with some, the whole “they’re not really women” has worked. I’m a student of history and know humanity has been here before. We mustn’t let them divide us. All women are women. We all have the same opponent: wealthy patriarchy.

wolfbainskyhunter.bsky.social•105 days ago

Ahh yes. Someone would go through all the crap, time, effort and expense to perv on women.

Or could go somewhere with a bucket of cleaning supplies, rubber gloves, and a "do not enter. Being cleaned" sign.

veronikamirage.bsky.social•105 days ago

What gets me is that most of the trans women that I know are straight. Why, suddenly would your sexual attraction change because you walked into a women's restroom. It makes no sense.

rosaluxlux.bsky.social•105 days ago

Or get a job as a pastor and offer "private counseling"

kylora2112.bsky.social•105 days ago

Now all a creepy dude needs to do is just go "I'm a trans man so I belong here."

jpofferz.bsky.social•105 days ago

Wild how you were blatantly told by the very anti-trans groups you support this very argument you are using was made up by them to stoke panic and fear against lgbtq people, and you’re still somehow so dumb to continue to parrot it

kylora2112.bsky.social•105 days ago

I'm guessing you completely misread my post.

jpofferz.bsky.social•105 days ago

If it’s supposed to be sarcasm, it didn’t land since it sounds pretty accurate to what bigoted dumbasses would say 🤷🏾‍♂️

rubens.bsky.social•105 days ago

I think they mean a predator would say he's a trans man, ergo AFAB, so he'd be able to use the women's restroom unbothered by transphobic POS

facedog.bsky.social•105 days ago

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