Majority rules. . .

As everyone in politics knows, elections have consequences.  Majority rules -- except, of course, when you are not in the majority.  Then it is okay to gripe and complain.  So the world has heard plenty from those who did not elect Trump.  What is curious, though, is that there are plenty of places where the majority is ignored.  One area is when it comes to women competing with trans in sports or sharing locker rooms or restrooms.  I know plenty of women.  While some complain that the whole rub against trans is white, gray haired men who have a phobia or fixation on this subject, the reality is that every woman I know believes for themselves and their female family members that trans do not belong in their sports or in their changing areas or in their toilets.  It is almost universal.  Some say it is an American issue and that Europe is much more, shall we say, progressive on the issue.  Well, who cares??  Really, who does care?? If some Europeans are more casual about nudity or trans in female areas, what does that have to do with us?  Why should women in America take a pass on their opinion simply because Europeans have a different take on it?

Majority rules is a basic tenet of democratic governance and with it a certain measure of protection for minorities.  It has served us well at least until now.  Now we face an issue where an almost statistically insignificant number of trans have the right to make females uncomfortable in athletic competition, changing areas, and restrooms.  By the way, I have yet to hear from any of the hundreds of women I know that they have any interest in being in men's restrooms.  In fact, some find the whole urinal thing a mystery and I have more than once been asked why men settle for it -- much less why any women would be interested in entering that space!  Within the subject, it is worth remembering that we live in an age in which it is not rare but very common to find plenty of restrooms which are constructed to serve an individual alone or a family helping a child take care of business.  It is not simply about access (as it was when restrooms were defined by the color of your skin).  When race segregated restrooms and such, it was about access.  There were no choices.  It was universally acknowledged that access was the issue -- not equal availability nor equal accommodations.  This, however, is about a principle.  Trans want to be accepted as the same as those who have their biological sex and the bathroom and athletic competition issues have become the litmus tests of their acceptance.  The trans movement must understand that they their path to acceptance will not be aided by trampling on the rights of the very women they want to be seen as.  

Majority rules with accommodations made for the minority.  Everyone has to use a restroom.  It should not be that hard.  Surely we have toilets enough for everyone except those who want the issue to be about something more than a toilet.