It is literally illegal for them to advertise single sex spaces
Great. Then your claim that these were single sex spaces is bull ◊◊◊◊. Everyone going there was aware that they were gender segregated, not sex, insomuch as they are familiar with the language and their representatives' legislation.
It was broadly predictable that someone somewhere would eventually become a groundbreaking pioneer in the art of legally protected exhibitionism, but it wasn't remotely predictable that this would happen to those patrons in that place on that day.
Pretty sure about that? We know there WI spa had a list
on that very day of transgender patrons, of which Merager was one. Were they invisible up till then?
Before you pursue your assumptions and speculation any further, you need to demonstrate what was the norm for transgender patrons on that day, and previously.
{Eta: it has been put forth that the elusive "Cubana Angel" complainant, of "there is no such thing as transgender and Jesus is Lord!" fame, set this ◊◊◊◊ up from the jump. From what I've read, I'm inclined to agree.}
Silly women assumed all the stingers were still on the other floor, as they had experienced on every previous visit.
Pretty sure you have determined where those stingers were? If so, you forgot to post it.
What was the transgender policy at that time? What was disclosed to patrons? Specifics, please. We've had quite enough made up ◊◊◊◊.
What we actually found was that the prosecution lost a case they'd've easily won two decades ago
Oh, so you want to return to the good old days, when people knew their place? Why don't we roll back the clock further, when women wouldn't be voting? Further?
If you want to provide legal or social cover for people who act upon exhibitionist urges, you should probably be aware that the
vast majority of those people are male.
Those goalposts getting heavy, are they? The argument was that this was not a male specific argument.
The current fig leaf is that "aw hey man, we are the pro women side". Well, show your support for the desires of... what's the derogatory descriptor?... ah yes, "transgender identified females" instead of telling them to ◊◊◊◊ off, you're only concerned with proper cis women.
Other than Merager apologists, who are defending specific actions performed with specific anatomy.
Dude, I agree that Merager shouldn't have been in there. But to defend that, we have to bluntly acknowledge that we are not really serious about anti-discrimination laws, and that we actually want it, at least sometimes.
This was a Korean style spa, which bucks the traditional American social norm of covering up in an open space. We generally don't parade around naked in honor of ancient Korean bathouse customs. Every patron willingly accepted this "immodest" (WI spa's descriptor) social norm. Menager was more of a sideways step in ignoring our cultural norms than a table flip of them.
