[quote=@NightinGem]"Sure you can be fired for being gay or transgender in the US and we're constantly trying to limit your rights to adopt and to scapegoat trans people as pedophiles and force them to use the bathroom their genetalia corresponds to, despite the fact that this won't limit sexual assault and is more likely to cause trans people to be assaulted themselves! But hey! We're not killing you like in the Middle East." 

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Pulse. They're killing you over here, too! But moving on.

You (almost certainly) have more perspective on the bathroom issue than I do. Tell me something. From my ignorant EVIL CIS WITE MALE POV, the [i]very first time[/i] I [i]ever[/i] heard of this as a problem was shortly after the SCOTUS legalized marriage. Never [i]once in my entire life[/i] had I heard a whisper about it before -- and suddenly it was the biggest social injustice in the country that bathrooms in 2016 were like bathrooms in 2015. It has [i]never made sense[/i] to me -- how the [i]fuck[/i] would anybody know what your genitals look like in a bathroom? Are people checking your genitals in the bathroom? What is or was or has been preventing a trans person from just doing their thing? I do not understand and I would like to understand. I can guess but my guesses are all lobbyist-money related.