The trans bathroom wars are back (and it’s getting nasty!)

The trans bathroom wars have officially consumed Congress, after Republican Nancy Mace introduced legislation seeking to prohibit a newly-elected transgender member of Congress, and other trans people who work there, from using their preferred bathroom. Is this a common-sense measure or an unnecessary overstep?

Plus, Piers Morgan destroys a woke guest who plays identity politics on live TV and a TikTok has an obnoxious message for white men. As always, I round out the show with your comments!

00:00 Intro
00:39 Bathroom wars take over Congress
08:36 Piers Morgan destroys woke guest in wild debate
16:15 Woke dude lectures white men about privilege
21:11 The comments

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[brandi]

First 2 seconds. Woman says she doesn't want men in bathroom with her. Man immediately proves her point

[shannon]

I think the main reason a lot of women are fed up with the bathroom stuff, is because our concerns are outright ignored. For me personally, a transwoman that totally passes isn’t an issue (because if they pass, I literally will not be able to tell they’re a man). The issue is that anyone can “claim” they’re trans, even if they look fully male, with a full beard and baritone voice, and now they’re suddenly allowed in bathrooms with women. They don’t need to pass at all, they don’t even need a gender dysphoria diagnosis! There are a ton of statistics out there showing the unfortunate high number of women who are survivors of rape, domestic violence, and even just sexual harassment. Even if the actual statistics for bathroom assault is rare, it doesn’t mean it never happens, and just being in a vulnerable, compromised position (like on the toilet in a public bathroom) with a stranger male is scary to think about as a woman. It could absolutely even trigger a panic attack for survivors. There’s a reason women almost always accompany their female friends to the bathroom when we’re out in public; it’s not just to chitchat, there’s safety in numbers. We’re taught from a young age not to go anywhere alone. The fact that this is being debated just makes it feel like people are dismissing women’s very real, justifiable instincts for safety/self-preservation.

[DutchIsraeli]

I just find it crazy that misgendering someone is deemed "violence" but this kind of horrific, insane threats are fine.

[jennarobinson]

Regarding the trans bathroom debate-

It's not just safety, it's also a matter of privacy away from males while we deal with our periods and all that entails (for example menstrual cups that need to be washed in a sink etc), many women breastfeed in bathrooms when there aren't better alternatives, and we bring our young children in with us.
Legally allowing males into women's spaces is also a safeguarding issue with the above point about children in the bathroom. In schools for example, this would then mean that biological male teachers that identify as trans would be able to use the same bathroom of female children, which would have never been allowed before for obvious safeguarding reasons.

[Rinna]

As a woman myself I think we genuinely need to call out the hypocrisy of bringing up statistics whenever bathroom assaults are brought up. Women in general many times do not report assaults that happen to them outside of the bathroom. Why? Because of fear of backlash and not being believed. Now imagine if a woman was actually assaulted by a man in a dress in a woman’s restroom and she decided to say something. She’d receive even more backlash including from the “support all victims” community. Like can we please stop ignoring the obvious. Stats are not taken in full because many people can recognize that the number is much higher. The bathroom doesn’t make that change and heck it probably makes it worse. Women’s concerns need to stop being ignored:

[romonarussum]

I respect you, Mr. Polumbo. However, as a woman with a lot of trauma issues, I feel very uncomfortable with men in the woman's restroom. A few years ago, a man came into the restroom and I was totally uncomfortable. I told him to get out (he didn't)and afterwards I complained to management. I was totally ignored. The management defended him. I went up and told him off since management did nothing. Women should not have to subjugate our comfort, privacy and safety so a man's feelings don't get hurt.

[jeidafei]

It's not just safety, Brad. In a single stall, fine. In a multiple-stall bathroom with a communal handwashing area, seeing a man makes most women uncomfortable. Or even the knowledge that the woman you see can actually be a man, and that the space is no longer exclusively for your sex. Even if he's fully dressed. Even if he mostly passes as a woman.

Toilets are a private place. To see someone in there whom you know has a different body to you, knowing he hears your private sounds, he can picture you doing your private stuff...it's unnerving. I have a twin brother, and I wouldn't want even *him* in the bathroom.

I think men don't like women in their spaces too. But for women, there's also the instinctive fear as the weaker sex. How easy it is in a secluded space for a man to overpower a lone woman and lock her inside a stall. This, men will never understand. Which is why in this case, it's not so wrong to say "you're a man, you don't get it".

[AnonSlothy]

Cant say i agree with you Brad. Just because a man can just walk into the bathroom and assault a woman, doesnt mean we shouldn't have rules against it. Now when women have complained about being stalked or flashed in bathrooms and changing rooms, they have no recourse. Gyms kick them out for transphobia, they lose their jobs. Now if a woman sees a man in her bathroom, she cant leave and involve management, she either has to find a new bathroom, or open herself up to potential harm.

[ELalaurette]

i can't fathom making 50% of the population uncomfortable to make less than 1% comfortable.

[amyslowikgrossman]

It's not so much the bathrooms, but the locker rooms. There have been numerous reports of men using the trans excuse for access where women are showering and undressing. I have personally encountered men in locker rooms at busy public pools watching little kids and you're not allowed to say anything about it even when there are facilities for individual bathrooms. They were camping out in there. When my friends with me went back later to use bathroom they were still there.

[lizmercer]

If a man drops his pants in front of a minor, will there be consequences if said man “identifies” as a woman? This question coming from a transphobic lesbian, as I’m not interested in dating trans women. Could we just please bring common sense? In my limited experience, the transsexual people I know just want to fit in. They are not advertising their biological sex for clout and praise. They have worked hard to “pass”.

[vidras]

That trans person attacking Nancy Mace is making our point for us.

[ShadowLord]

In countries with unisex bathrooms, the stalls go from ceiling to floor. There's a difference.

[franbrowning]

Being against a bio men in a women’s space is not anti LGBTQ as someone who has been ra—- twice i don’t want this

[JessicaScott-ygzl]

Brad - You don't get the bathroom safety issue. The way "trans-inclusion" is implemented gaslights girls and women into disregarding their instincts and punishes them if they question the presence of a man in the women's restroom. It also makes voyeurism and exhibitionism basically non-crimes if the man claims he's trans. And let's not pretend some men don't have fetishes and are thrilled by the opportunity to violate women's boundaries - wank in ladies room, hide cameras for footage to share with their buddies, revel in the female discomfort their presence elicits. Women fought for these spaces and they're not yours to give away.

[jerriesmay]

Brad you are all the way wrong on this. Women don't feel the need to take selfies in the Ladies Room; however, Sarah McBride did. "She" took a selfie in a Ladies Room and posted it on X as some sort of flex/power play. I'm glad "she" has agreed to abide by the rules set out by Speaker Johnson. Sarah McBride's feelings do not override the rights and comfort of women to have their own single sex spaces.
And I love Buck Angel, Blair White, Sarah Higdon and Marcus and ALL of them respect women and women's spaces. Invoking transsexuals that "pass" does not win this argument, it isn't their fault, it's the Trans Activists fault. The self-id crowd that claims all you need to be a woman is to say you are. Those are the the dangerous ones, and some others might feel some backlash too, it's unfortunate because Buck and Blair have been fighting this all along. You are advocating for the guy who threatened Rep Mace with death to be able to use the ladies room and just never mind the women in danger as long as his feelings aren't hurt.

[Karly-dybl]

How is that guy threatening to bash her face in NOT BEING INVESTED NOW! That is a terrorist threat! Unbelievable

[TheBusyHoneyBee]

If there is no safety issue what is the problem of biological males and trans women use the same bathroom?

[courtneylane]

So heres the thing. As women, we have all probably used the restroom with a trans woman, and had no idea. Why? Because ACTUAL trans women wouldn't be caught dead with a 5 o'clock shadow, or any other indications that they were once men. I have no problem with trans women (real trans women) usuing my restrooms. Like girl do yiu. What i have a problem with are very masculine presenting ppl who get violent when asked to use another facility. THAT is not a representation of the trans community at all and anyone who thinks thats ok is wrong.

[MTx]

I’m really starting to understand why some people were against marriage equality because it seems like as soon as we got to that point, all the kookery started. The people that were against it said exactly this would happen. And I say this as someone who was *for* marriage equality.
4:15 seriously Brad, should we wait for incidents? And it’s not just about _safety_ either. Why do women like Nancy Mace who have been SA-ed have their feelings disregarded for those of people like Sarah? Maybe we shouldn’t have to change societal norms to for those that are “bizarre and dysfunctional” 5:32

Leave things alone. People are tired of these slippery slopes.