The draft law of West Virginia Governor Patrick von Morrisey for the ban on transgender women from individual space cannot be enforced if the legislator passed it on the basis of the decision of the Court of the Fourth Circle. (Vladimir Vladimirov | Getty Images)
Governor Patrick Morrisey’s “Gender definition” placement wastes the time of everyone.
House bill 2006 It is found that “the longstanding meaning of gender, men and women in state law will reaffirm” and “women toilets, several occupancy toilets or changing rooms and changing rooms receive and receive and Sleep quarters for women in facilities in which women have traditionally received privacy and security from abuse, harassment, sexual assault and violence committed by men. “
According to this law, there is no criminal punishment, since this would violate the decision Grimm v. Gloucester school authorityWhere the fourth circuit decided that a student under title IX protection must be able to utilize the bathroom that corresponds to its gender identity. This draft law only comes into play if this decision is canceled.
This is similar to the inaccurately named “Frauenbill der Recht”, which the former governor Jim Justice pushed forward last year To make a vote last night of the regular session. The only difference is that Morrisey has added domestic violence accommodation to the list of the rooms.
The West Virginia Coalition of Domestic Violence rejects this law.
“Most women who are looking for protection were misused by their intimate partners, not by men who dress up as women in order to gain access to survivors in need of protection,” said the coalition in a press release. “The protection of women and girls is best provided by realizing that most of the forms of violence in their houses are committed to them.”
This is the myth that the Republicans are trying to sell – heterosexual men will dress up as women to join these rooms and abuse women. In states with an LGBTQ NnichtDiskrimination Act ,, There is no recording of behavior as it increases.
The problem here is Cisgenden men, not transgender women. This calculation is aimed at the wrong people.
Let’s take a look at some of the phrases in this draft law: “… in institutions in which women have traditionally received privacy and security from abuse, harassment, sexual assault and violence of men.” Why did women not provide security from men in all facilities?
Women – cisender and transgender – all deserve to feel sheltered.
However, the world does not work that way. Domestic violence accommodations are necessary. And transgender people can be more likely To experience violence of intimate partners as cisgende people.
The ban on domestic violence in accommodation before transgender women would be “a death sentence,” said Julie Britton, managing director of the YWCA Resolve Family Abuse program in Charleston.
“There are no alternative facilities, and if we are not available, the only other option would be a homeless shelter or the streets” narrated legislator. “I don’t know if we are worried about the security of women to bring trans women to the street.”
It is clear that these animal shelters continue to want to assist transgender women – why should the state prevent them from doing so? It is an unnecessary government of the government.
If the Republicans really took care that women protect against harassment and violence Invoices in both The Senate (which was withdrawn) and the house tried to remove rape and incest exceptions from the state’s almost total abortion ban.
How does a woman protect it to give her to the world after a man forced and impregnated her? In West Virginia, the parental rights of a rapist can only be narrow or terminated if there is one conviction. National only over 31% Sexual assaults are reported and only by those 2.5% From sexual abusers go to prison or prison. Only over 12% The police are reported to sexual abuse of children.
In approximate 8 out of 10 incidentsAccording to the National Network (Raininn – Rainn – only about 19.5% of the rapes, the woman knew her rapist by a stranger, which makes it more challenging for the victim to report the incident for fear of more retaliation.
Another bill that will put women in danger is Senate Bill 299What aims to ban hormone treatment for children in which gender dysphoria was diagnosed.
Children with Gender dysphoria Suffering from psychological stress because their gender identity does not match the gender that they were assigned to at birth. So much that you can sometimes feel suicidal. If doctors such as puberty blockers can prescribe hormone treatment, this relieves some of these loads. The medication Pause fleeting puberty And are totally reversible.
When the Senate SB discussed 299, they had virtual statements from people who tried to sell history who received minors who received gender -specific care. You are not. A study In the United States, researchers of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Network found little to no gender-known operations against transgender-minor-year-old.
The gender care is most often used by cisgenders. If you do not forbid hair transplants and breast enlargement surgery for cisenden people, you are not earnest with gender-controlling care. It is only earnest to hurt transgender people.
