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[–]aloris342 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is good, but if we really want to gather usable evidence that eliminating women-only spaces causes harm, then these reports need to be verifiable. Obviously, we cannot have a situation where victims are asked to post their stories with their names attached, because that could be very risky for them. But maybe we could discuss whether there is a way for the victims to gather evidence without putting themselves at risk. For example, we need to help victims to know what kind of evidence they should be keeping in their private records: name of the establishment, date of the incident, names of any witnesses or other people present (if known), etc. Maybe they could take a photo of the outside of the establishment so they can document where they were and when they were there (obviously, for legal reasons, they would not be able to photograph the relevant areas). That way, if they wanted their experience to become part of the body of evidence later, they would have some written documentation. I doubt anything will be good enough for the people who are in charge of regulating all of this (of course the problem with eliminating the sex-specific nature of restrooms is that there is no way for a woman to prove what happened to her). But I think we have to prepare to gather evidence where we can, and work with the situation we have.