At last , Sanity

It's more so that perverts can't *pretend* to be transgender in order to sexually harass or assault biological women and girls.

Get your dick chopped off and I'm sure nobody would have a problem with you using the ladies room. But a lot of self-identified trans people barely even make an effort to pass, like the Gamestop dude.

Next stop: women's bathroom gender police.

As with any rules, their intention is to not make things easy for the criminals. Allowing non trans men to pretend they're trans just by saying so, with no other effort, is blatant misogyny, since you clearly don't care about the safety of real women.

But that's no surprise, the whole trans movement has become misogynistic the last couple of years, trying to uncreate women.

"Nothing about this will make it any more difficult for anyone born male to put a wig on, go inside, and do whatever."

Except for real women's ability to scream and call for help without having to fear being labeled transphobic and getting doxxed and canceled, maybe even charged with a hate crime.

In terms of actual assault or rape, it just might. The potential confusion as he approaches can lead to a costly moment of indecision in which he'd have time to silence her.

But rape isn't the only problem, there are other crimes that can be committed, such as sexual harassment and indecent exposure. Sexual assault can even occur and the woman might be afraid to say something because it's her word against his, remembering that sexual assault can be something as brief and unprovable as groping a butt or breast.

If she complains about something like that to management or the cops, he can just say she's a transphobe making up stories to get him in trouble.

And with biological women being dehumanized by the trans movement these days, it's not out of the question that the woman could be arrested and charged, especially here in Canada.

You think fear of being labeled transphobic might be greater than fear of actual rape??? It's not out of the question that SHE could be arrested and charged? Wow Canada must be far crazier than I thought. I don't think that's true here.

"If she complains about something like that to management or the cops, he can just say she's a transphobe making up stories to get him in trouble."

If it hinges on word against word, there still isn't really anything preventing the other person from saying that.. They could say oh the woman was actually the one who drug THEM into the bathroom and assaulted them they just tried to defend themself, or she's a transphobe and they were never even in that bathroom to begin with, and so on.

Yes, I already answered that.

There's a *possibility*. Not for every woman, since they're not a monolith, not all the same, but there is every chance that for some women, the fear of being canceled can outweigh the fear of being raped, even if only for a few seconds, long enough for the indecision to have disastrous consequences.

Three excellently pedantic and specious questions.

Indeed, why not just make it easy and say "a woman is someone born with an XX chromosome."

No ambiguity there.