Re:Regarding the Compact
by TimorousBestie on Friday October 10, 2025 @07:59PM
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> And if someone violates that rule and is reported, they need to punish that person appropriately, just as they punish for any other violation of stated rules and regulations.
So how and where exactly is it established that a violation has occurred? If not Seal Team Six and DNA testing (the latter wouldn’t solve the problem conclusively in any case). How exactly are you, random bystander, supposed to know if an arbitrary stranger is male or female?
Real people get this judgment wrong about cisgendered strangers all the time, this isn’t a hypothetical.
Do you intend for the accused to display their genitals as an affirmative defense? To whom? Is every random accusation going to cause an interaction with the police and a gross violation of privacy?
Because that’s what it sounds like you’re suggesting here.
In practice it means that MIT has to say "men bathrooms are for biological men, and women bathrooms are for biological women".
They don't have to post Seal Team 6 operators to guard bathrooms or require DNA testing in order to access bathrooms.
And if someone violates that rule and is reported, they need to punish that person appropriately, just as they punish for any other violation of stated rules and regulations.
And the reason this is needed because many schools adopted the opposite rule: they explicitly state that men can use women's bathroom and they punish women who complain about that.
See e.g.: https://vermontdailychronicle.com/klar-randolph-school-offic...
> One well-documented example is that of Blake Allen, a 14-year-old high school student at Randolph Union High School in Vermont. In 2022, Blake and her teammates on the girls' volleyball team complained about a transgender student (biologically male) using the girls' locker room and bathroom, citing discomfort and an alleged inappropriate comment made by the student while the girls were changing. The school suspended Blake for three days for "misgendering" the transgender student after she referred to them as male in discussions about the incident. Her father, Travis Allen, was fired from his coaching position for supporting her and posting about the issue on social media.