Research shows the only thing Republican lawmakers have to fear when it comes to inappropriate behavior in bathrooms is—wait for it—themselves.
At least three Republican legislators have been arrested for soliciting or performing sexual acts in a bathroom, according to NewNowNext.
But lawmakers in North Carolina, Arizona, Florida, and Texas have been pointing the finger at trans people. Those states continue relying on the claim that sexual predators will be able access to women's bathrooms if trans people are allowed to use facilities that match their gender identities instead of the sex assigned on their birth certificates.
Media Matters, a non-profit organization dedicated to monitoring media for conservative misinformation, found that no actual incidents involving predatory transgender people have occurred. What stories have circulated in the press have all turned out to be false and perpetuated by hate groups.
There has never been a single reported case of sexual abuse perpetrated by a transgender person in a bathroom.
Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality told NTRSCTN that there has never been a single reported case of sexual abuse perpetrated by a transgender person in a bathroom.
Instead, it seems to be Republican legislators who pose the real bathroom threat.
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