Similarly black people aren't allowed in certain neigbhorhoods, or to own expensive cars in many places. They get stopped repeatedly, and every busybody is aggravating, and every encounter with police is life-threatening. Most decide that it's not worth the risk.

I think that when a society has a lot of laws and rights that aren't real -- things that are illegal but allowed, and things that are legal but not allowed -- the result is a delusional society with little grasp of reality. I complained about this all through school because the adults demanded that children memorize things that were demonstrably false like freedom of speech. It drove adults batshit when I shrugged and told the other kids, "Test it." They tested it, disproved the claims, and then also bitched about being required to parrot false things. That was one of the few topics where anyone actually listened to me, but they were already suspicious and it was easily disproved.