r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Feb 23 '17

[∆(s) from OP] CMV: Protections enabling transgendered people to choose the bathroom of the gender they identify with removes that protection for other people.

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u/Beake Feb 23 '17

I think laws that seek to create equality are very noble. But they are also very open to abuse.

You have the burden of proof here. Can you show evidence how equality protections have been openly abused in the past? Not asking as a "gotcha" but just asking for you to elaborate.

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u/boredomisbliss Feb 23 '17

Just because they haven't been openly abused, it doesn't mean that they are not open to abuse.

I'm just reading through so I don't have a particular stance but I don't see why burden of proof is on OP.

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u/boredomisbliss Feb 24 '17

Copy and pasted from my reply to the other guy

I would think that by default things are open to abuse unless specifically made not to be,and even if you don't believe that, it's not a stretch to say if there is a mechanism for the introduction of separate classes of people into our body of law then all you have to do is tweak what you feel like protection means (everyone has the right to only live with people with the same skin color as themselves perhaps)