06-10-2016, 06:35 AM
But back narrowly on topic:
Under British common law - which forms the basis for the penal codes in every U.S. state except Louisiana - the crime of burglary entails entering upon a premises on which a person has no legal right to be, with the intention of committing a crime. Picking a lock, smashing a window, etc., is not necessary.
With the foregoing in mind, if it is illegal for a biologically-born male to be in a women's rest room, if that male commits even a relatively minor "sex crime," i.e., peeping or flashing, it becomes a felony - burglary. But, as a practical matter, no transgender would ever be arrested for merely being in the ladies' room, unless one of the ladies commits the crime of peeping herself; otherwise, how would she know that someone was not a "real" woman? And since taking a piss or a crap in a facility designed for same is (obviously) not a crime, the intention-of-committing-a-crime criterion for burglary is not met if that is all the transgender does in there.
So what's the fuss - unless the libs don't want to see bathroom pervs charged with burglary, which might very well provide an added deterrent to such activity?
Under British common law - which forms the basis for the penal codes in every U.S. state except Louisiana - the crime of burglary entails entering upon a premises on which a person has no legal right to be, with the intention of committing a crime. Picking a lock, smashing a window, etc., is not necessary.
With the foregoing in mind, if it is illegal for a biologically-born male to be in a women's rest room, if that male commits even a relatively minor "sex crime," i.e., peeping or flashing, it becomes a felony - burglary. But, as a practical matter, no transgender would ever be arrested for merely being in the ladies' room, unless one of the ladies commits the crime of peeping herself; otherwise, how would she know that someone was not a "real" woman? And since taking a piss or a crap in a facility designed for same is (obviously) not a crime, the intention-of-committing-a-crime criterion for burglary is not met if that is all the transgender does in there.
So what's the fuss - unless the libs don't want to see bathroom pervs charged with burglary, which might very well provide an added deterrent to such activity?
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892
