Email to Frank Artiles

Quoting http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2015-04-07/story/gay-advocates-say-florida-proposals-deserve-same-backlash-indiana

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The sponsor of that legislation, Rep. Frank Artiles, R-Miami, said he has been demonized by gay rights advocates who mis-characterized his intent.

“This has not been easy, I’ve had some terrible attacks on my character and terrible attacks on me personally,” he said Tuesday. “I would not be doing this unless I truly believed that I’m doing the right thing, which is protecting society from the deviants that fall into a loophole because of a badly worded ordinance.”

Artiles said his bill is intended to keep women safe from men who pose as cross-dressers to gain access to public restrooms with the intention to harass or assault. He filed the proposal after the Miami-Dade County Commission refused to remove bathroom protection language from a human rights ordinance.
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I call bullshit on this being a realistic risk. Prove me wrong or retract your idiotic fucking bill.

What are the statistics of cross-dressers being involved in sexual assaults (as perpetrators, not victims)?

Is the incidence of cross dressers more significant than, say, Catholic priests molesting altar boys and being moved out of the government's jurisdiction by the Vatican, only to rinse-and-repeat commit the same atrocities?

I'd wager that the latter (the atrocities of the Church) happens significantly enough to actually have real statistics. The former (cross-dressers targeting women in their restrooms) is unlikely to even be a blip on the radar.

Data or GTFO.

Some reading material on risk assessment:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/05/rare_risk_and_o_1.html
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/overreaction_an.html

P.S. I live in Orlando, FL I'm not some Internet random. I'll debate this with you face-to-face if you'd prefer that to the impersonality of the digital aether.

P.P.S. If you can't handle "terrible attacks on my character and terrible attacks on me personally" stay the fuck out of politics and keep your dick out of your fellow citizen's lives.