Bathroom Bans

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So you want to learn more about bathroom bans?

This topic is often framed with fear. It helps to slow it down.

What’s the actual claim?

That allowing transgender people to use restrooms matching their gender identity increases assault risk.

What’s the reality?

• Assault is already illegal everywhere.
• Criminal behavior is not determined by signage.
• Trans people are statistically more likely to be harassed than to harass others.

Questions that open conversation

• “If someone intends to commit assault, would a sign stop them?”
• “Who is statistically more likely to experience harassment in bathrooms?”
• “Are we solving a documented problem — or responding to fear?”

Sources for this topic

• Safety & anti-violence organizations
• Civil rights policy organizations