LGBT Transgender Bathroom Discrimination

Tommy and Paris discuss the latest news regarding LGBT and Transgender Bathroom Discrimination, where North Carolina and Mississippi are passing laws that ban transgender … protections for LGBT people and forces trans people to use the bathroom that matches the sex they were born as.

Proponents of anti-trans bills, which are sweeping the country, purport a twofold argument about safety: 1. A man is a man no matter how he dresses, so letting him into the women’s bathroom is absurd. 2. Male perverts and pedophiles disguised as women (faux transgender people) will troll women’s bathrooms and sexually assault our wives and daughters.

But the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Human Rights Campaign and the American Civil Liberties Union say there is no statistical evidence of violence to justify the laws. They argue the bills are irrational, conflict with federal law and veritably endanger trans people. A slew of corporations, from Target to PayPal, agree.

North Carolina’s House Bill 2, which eliminates local non-discrimination protections for LGBT people and forces trans people to use the bathroom that matches the sex on their birth certificate in schools and publicly-owned buildings, doesn’t contain an enforcement plan.

Plus, Tommy tells road stories from being on tour as a roadie to being on he road as the headliner.  Also we learn how you can survive a drought.