You wrote that stats may not be accurate. Ok…
So now what? What does that mean in context of the rest of the sections?
I wrote that in the videos you won't watch even though I read you or link those stats were discussed and there are problems on two fronts. The first is that trans rape yields no results if you search through Google. But if you get creative, you can find all kinds of rape and sexual assault done by trans people. And so it is underreported when trans people do crimes and they are called "men" in the reports. They're called men because they are men.
Now I personally would be very interested in any legitimate series of studies that shows no issues with trans people though because that would change my mind.
But since we are dealing with men who are violent and who rape that is not how it's going to play out because men will continue to act like men even if they say they are women.
The other issue is that they're going back decades when the percentage of trans people was so low as to be nearly statistically insignificant.
That's obviously going to change when a ton of men are now deciding that they are women and since we know men harm women those rates will go up and that's what women don't want. The ease at which you can legally decide you're a woman will also factor into how dangerous these bathroom laws are. In Scotland you can become a woman just by saying so... that's all you have to do. You don't even have to fill out paperwork. Obviously lots of men who really are not trans people will be taking advantage of those ridiculous laws. But they don't have to be that easy of laws in order to encourage malfeasance from abusing them.
It literally has nothing to do with the fact that they're trans. It has to do with the fact that they are men.
That position also ignores the most important point, which is that rape should not be the only consideration for whether or not men are allowed in women's restrooms for lots and lots of reasons that also go back decades and that women have fought for and feminists have fought to gain.
Women should be able to go to women's restrooms in order to have miscarriages in order to get away from leary men in bars and call friends to come get them, in order to cry or talk or do whatever else women want to do without men invading their privacy.
The article you link says that separate spaces for trans people is not an answer, but it provides no honest argument for that. I think separate spaces are the best possible answer for everybody involved. The majority of buildings in the city already have single use bathrooms somewhere on the property. Those that don't often have private bathrooms for employees that could be opened up to trans people. I'm guessing that would solve most bathroom problems right there frankly. And then obviously I am 100% willing to pay more taxes while we retrofit single use bathrooms in all other locations that are public.
But what I can't understand is why men just want to force women to deal with all the repercussions of violent men invading their spaces.. I just don't get it. Doesn't make any sense to me at all.