# Alabama's Bathroom Bill **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 9, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabamas-bathroom-bill/776725 "2017-01-09T15:42:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabamas-bathroom-bill/776725/29 "2017-01-10T00:59:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The people that are pushing for these “toilet safety” laws need to wake up and take a look at the real world. Their argument is that they’re trying to protect their womenfolk from having perverts putting on a dress and following them into the ladies room. (That idea probably mostly says how their minds work.) But how are they going to react when somebody who looks like [this](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3ZION2z6RHs/VrpTwKWDCbI/AAAAAAAA6UI/GcFQb4tZhvU/s1600/benjaminmelzer.jpg) follows their daughter into the ladies room? I’m not familiar with him so I’m probably making exactly the same point, but in another thread I pointed out that if you fight against these things, then people like [Buck Angel](http://www.letoilemagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Buck-Angel-Speaking.jpg) (seems like a super nice guy, watch the doc) are forced into the women’s bathroom, (where you want them, right?), instead of the men’s bathroom, where you wouldn’t even notice them. The over the top reactions of people putting up Hamburger Mary’s style drag queens or rednecks in bad wigs turned into memes asking if that’s who you want watching your kid go to the bathroom are just stupid…because there’s so many drag queens and rednecks in bad wigs hangout in the bathroom at Target. In fact, that’s a perfect case of even though I totally disagree with it, I understand what your getting at, but you’re doing such a bad job of making your point that your just hurting your case. [This](https://mikemstahl.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/atrgg.jpg?w=300&h=276) took literally seconds to find. As I said, just keep in mind that you really don’t see people out and about like that on any kind of a regular basis, but if ‘bathroom bill’ were some how magically enforced, I think people might be surprised who actually did end up peeing next to their daughter. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabamas-bathroom-bill/776725)._