Post by Logan on May 3, 2016 1:48:34 GMT -6
For businesses backing HB2, privacy and religious freedom are focal points
Before North Carolina’s House Bill 2 passed, Lighthouse Electric owner Judy Hale said she and her husband were considering moving the electrical contracting business from Charlotte to Fort Mill because they opposed Charlotte’s newly passed nondiscrimination ordinance.
Specifically, Hale found the transgender bathroom part particularly troubling.
“I myself don’t want to have to worry whether a man is coming into the same bathroom. It’s a privacy issue,” Hale said. “I don’t want to think I can’t use a public restroom facility, and I know all too many women who have said the same thing.”
Businesses that support HB2, like the legislators who ushered the measure into law, largely focus on its bathroom provision, which mandates that transgender people use the bathroom of the gender that corresponds with their birth certificate instead of the gender with which they identify, as the Charlotte ordinance would have allowed.
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article75129037.html
This issue has become more salient in my family recently. One of my sisters has an adult son who has severe autism. Because of his condition it is necessary for my sister to accompany him if he needs to use the restroom or if she has to use the restroom herself since he cannot be left alone in public.
While I understand the concerns of women who are scared that they might be raped or have their privacy violated, sometimes there are other circumstances where allowances are necessary. My sister will not use a men's restroom due to some events in her life prior to her having children and it is also difficult for her to discuss my nephew's medical condition to other women that are complete strangers.
I think that some common sense should be used and to realize that when people need to tend to a necessary biological function that the choice of restroom is not an option. Instituting laws as a backlash against transgender individuals like what has occurred in North Carolina is not necessary.
Before North Carolina’s House Bill 2 passed, Lighthouse Electric owner Judy Hale said she and her husband were considering moving the electrical contracting business from Charlotte to Fort Mill because they opposed Charlotte’s newly passed nondiscrimination ordinance.
Specifically, Hale found the transgender bathroom part particularly troubling.
“I myself don’t want to have to worry whether a man is coming into the same bathroom. It’s a privacy issue,” Hale said. “I don’t want to think I can’t use a public restroom facility, and I know all too many women who have said the same thing.”
Businesses that support HB2, like the legislators who ushered the measure into law, largely focus on its bathroom provision, which mandates that transgender people use the bathroom of the gender that corresponds with their birth certificate instead of the gender with which they identify, as the Charlotte ordinance would have allowed.
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article75129037.html
This issue has become more salient in my family recently. One of my sisters has an adult son who has severe autism. Because of his condition it is necessary for my sister to accompany him if he needs to use the restroom or if she has to use the restroom herself since he cannot be left alone in public.
While I understand the concerns of women who are scared that they might be raped or have their privacy violated, sometimes there are other circumstances where allowances are necessary. My sister will not use a men's restroom due to some events in her life prior to her having children and it is also difficult for her to discuss my nephew's medical condition to other women that are complete strangers.
I think that some common sense should be used and to realize that when people need to tend to a necessary biological function that the choice of restroom is not an option. Instituting laws as a backlash against transgender individuals like what has occurred in North Carolina is not necessary.