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albaby1, what you say has the appearance of rationality. You mention "groups" and "balance the interests of both groups" as if those groups weights were the same. They are not. It's about a tiny minority making an overwhelmingly larger majority feel uncomfortable. It's about one trans woman in a female facility making an eventually much larger number of women there feel uncomfortable.
I think you are aware of that extreme number imbalance between the groups you mention, that it's about a few individuals versus a huge group. That number imbalance results in an extremely unbalanced scale, with much more weight on the scale's "women" side.
That your arguments side of the scale is rather light you try to balance with your safety argument, this way putting more weight to the minority's interests (a in your eyes rather "harmless" "feeling uncomfortable" versus a "really dangerous"), to kind of evenly balance the weights of the groups on the scale. But this is just a trick and highly debatable --- contrary to the hugely different numbers of those groups (even talking about "groups" I think is deceiving, as it distorts that it's about a huge group versus some individuals).
What do I want to say with that? That it's not about rationality, also not about "safety", that this is just a lawyer's way of arguing his side, that in truth it's about "Zeitgeist" (A German word but I think used in English too), about opinion, about how far a society goes to protect the interests of minorities. Historically it was always the same (if I am not mistaken - which I very well might be): About the interests of the majority. As smaller a minority was as less the majority did listen to them, as less the majority was willing to sacrifice the interests of many for the interests of a few.
This just changes***. Either this "Zeitgeist" changes or modern media make it appear so. The current trend is that the interests of a minority count as much as that of a majority. While this is so more and more minorities appear, claiming the same rights in their field as the majority. Maybe this is an effect of modern media which allow minorities to appear more visible and larger as they in fact are, so that there is less awareness about the true differences in size between those "groups".
***Please note: Of course I am aware that I will be condemned for this post as everyone standing behind this changed "Zeitgeist" will see it as an attack on it. But if you read it objectively you'll see that it's just my explanation of what's happening today, without telling you my opinion about it. Everything else is made up in your mind :-)
