Most of the fighting about trans rights in the past ten years has been due to think tanks provoking a media panic. I've been out since 1999 and it only just now became a problem. There's a little preamble, but what follows won't be what you normally hear from either side.

First off, Nancy Mace's bills aren't enforceable. She was only able to enforce against Sarah McBride because she works with her and knows her personally. She is inciting threats against all women, not only through the legislation itself, but with her media strategy. But Mike DeWine's bill about students IS enforceable, for the same reason that Nancy's aren't. Let's talk about common sense.

Students in public schools are all minors. Contrary to what people hear from trans panic media, these things apply to basically zero children. In a state like Ohio or South Carolina, there's no way more than 100 children have even asked a doctor about gender related medical interventions. Most of the states that have been legislating against trans kids in sports have had 1 or 0 trans kids trying to play sports.

If you have a situation where a handful of children are self-IDing and going in whatever room they want, and they're all registered in school and the school knows their names, that's possible and maybe sensible to enforce against. It isn't happening at any real volume, but you can see how one would go about enforcing a ban on it and why it's logical. That's what we call common sense.

In a federal building, you get all types of people. They're not registered to the federal building and attending it every day, they're in housing court and shit. People only know what they're looking at, they don't have a file with your vaccination and lice check records. It's every type of person, every age, every race, every socioeconomic group, with every type of tattoo and plastic surgery.

Nancy is posting the craziest pictures of human beings that she can find, she has people collecting them and looking them up for her. But in real life, you're going to have old ladies with mustaches, beefy women like Riley Gaines or MTG, or teenagers that you do not know. The common sense thing to do in that scenario is to mind your business if everybody is minding theirs.

Meanwhile though, when Chaya Raichik sent Nancy a copy of a video from some boy streaming with his phone under a bathroom stall partition, she helped Chaya share it for money instead of calling the police. So here's what I would propose to address the concerns she's pretending to have.

I would enhance enforcement against actual sex crimes. Not just enhancing penalties, but putting more resources into making sure justice is done in scenarios like the one Nancy and Chaya didn't report, but instead chose to monetize.

And I would encourage people not to guess wild things about everybody they see. You aren't seeing anybody at all naked in a bathroom with stalls. Even in a locker room you don't know what's going on. Eyes to yourself is always the best policy in a locker room. But it'll be easier to maintain that polite inattention if real existing crimes are being reliably enforced against.

Back to DeWine and schools. Obviously there are some trans students even if they haven't had medical interventions. I was one of them, in the early 2000s. I was in Alaska so nobody bothered me, but some of these kids are probably being bullied whichever room they use. We would have schools emphasize enforcement against bullying, not just discouragement of it, and treat reduction of in-school assault as an education rubric same as reading or math scores.

South Carolina is actually being sued right now, as of the end of November, by a trans student who had been using their chosen bathroom with no objections from anybody, whose life and school were disrupted by a new law. The government does not need to cause problems that don't exist just because a few Tik Tok influencers want them to.

I would also put resources into reducing the volume of bomb threats that our nation's schools, libraries, and hospitals have been receiving as a result of the media campaign Chaya Raichik and her associates have been running. Obviously the FBI has had some trouble, so we'd look into what the options are given the first amendment's limitations on banning incitement of violence against soft targets.

These are things we can do to keep every student and every American safe. If that is our focus, there's no need to engage in the endless debates, which waste time and put every random woman in danger from bathroom vigilantes.