Not strictly blaming the judge. More incredulous that there are laws that mean kids can be convicted of distributing child porn if they send a picture of themselves in a bra to their boyfriend, but in Oregon a grown ass man gets off scott free when taking pictures of a teenagers underwear.

Blaming technology a bit of a cop out that too many courts use- would it be illegal if this was done with a 35mm camera? Or a Polaroid instant? The "technology" of taking pictures isn't new, nor is the idea of sharing them. If the law doesn't make this illegal it isn't just because of technology, very often…

Right? How about harassment? Aggravation of a child?

Look, the law is an organic thing and you CANNOT tell me that this fucking judge couldn't have used existing laws and case law to interpret this properly as a privacy violation or an assault.

Yep, unlike Trayvon Martin he had an actual criminal record and yet somehow Florida considered the unarmed kid he murdered the only "thug" in this situation. Gosh, I wonder why?

I wish it were easier for law enforcement to move ahead with domestic violence charges even without help from the victim. This guy's clearly a menace, and he won't stop until he kills someone.

I realize things were tough in your apartment, but I am not ok with any person of any gender or identity pissing into my kitchen sink.

So they think women's restrooms are like the shower room in Porky's?

Even this explanation doesn't really hold water with me. Like, if you are the kind of pervert who really desperately needs to peep in on women's bathrooms and change rooms to get your rocks off, dressing as a woman is such a round about and unnecessarily complicated way of doing it - AND one that would make it way…

Regardless of whether it has happened a handful of times or not, it is already a crime. It doesn't matter that the assault happened in a bathroom and it doesn't matter what the perpetrator is wearing. Not allowing certain people access to certain areas because of one possible combination of biology and dress does…

The irony of you referring to me as "bigoted and stereotyping" is unbelievable. I'm an actual trans person, with actual experience being both correctly gendered and misgendered in bathroom situations.

still, it's nice to see a bunch of people suddenly give a crap about the threat of sexual assault to women. except where it's actually happening.

Can't be prosecuted for what? Peeping? Raping someone? Kidnapping a child? Pretty sure those are still crimes even if a trans person does them, much less a man in drag. And again, bathrooms are already not regulated. There is no doorman on public bathroom checking the junk of who goes in. There is nothing to stop men…

You don't really need to elaborate, though. Just because you now pulled up three verified cases (and I know of a fourth) still is nothing, statistically speaking. The reasoning is still not valid, and I'm a bit shocked that you would feel you need to elaborate on it at all. It's lending credence to a bad argument,…

The problem with this hypothetical is that what the hell is going to stop men who want to do that from doing so anyway? Not too many bathrooms have doormen watching who comes in or out. Bathrooms are risky places for assault and abduction because they are often isolated. Walking into an empty bathroom and wait till a…

Yeah, considering cis men can assault, rape, or photograph women (oftentimes publicly) without opening themselves up to being victimized themselves or having their masculinity challenged, and with very little fear of actually being punished, I really don't get this. Any man can just simply walk into multi-stall…

I live in a shitty apartment with a male roommate. Our landlady is the worst; we've had a broken oven for two years. We briefly had no toilet - it exploded - and we just peed everywhere we could and traded lists of nearby places to poop.

Gawd, this. A million times this! Do these people honestly believe that there are would-be rapists walking around thinking, "I'd love to sexually assault someone, but I'm not allowed to go in that bathroom!" Because, as we all know, rapists are generally rule followers. *headfuckingdesk*

It does not happen often. It has happened once. A cis man pretended to be a trans woman in order to access women's shelters in Canada. He then went on to actually assault the women there. And the shelters banded together, and issued a statement saying something like, "The trans women we serve are amongst the most at…