I dont want to live in this reality any more.
I’m questioning more often why gendered restrooms even exist.
If they are passing legislation for things they believe are a myth, then when is the anti-bigfoot legislation coming? What about Chupacabra leash laws? Vampire curfew? Ghost noise ordinances?
My point is, I guess, that people typically don’t pass laws against things they think aren’t real in the first place.
Actually that sounds right up a politicians alley. Can’t have Bigfoot protest cuz he’s not real.
what about the witches.
Witches are real.
They killed Charlie Kirk
I just wish I was allowed to live as an equal in peace as I feel fit to live.
I hope each of those who voted this way never is able to use a public restroom again
So many headlines over the past year are things I remember seeing out of China and Russia over the past decade
Russian politicians claim the same thing about gays. I believe it was in Chechnya
Seems cruel and unusual. Also does this mean a guy can’t clean the women’s bathroom and vice versa?
Reading through the bill, they use the term “biological sex” without defining it
What amateurs are writing these laws? Not even defining terms? I get the vagueness of it is the point, but there are a lot of edge cases that will be in limbo from this
AI, probably. Thats how they determined what grants to cut, after all.
How far away are we from gay people just being stoned to death in public in the US?
Trans people havent been stoned to death yet, so the gays still have some more time left.
Like, October?
Remember when you could get in a car with your mother/wife/sister/girlfriend/daughter/neice/grandma/aunt and drive across the country and they’d have the same human rights from sea to shining sea and now they gain and lose basic human rights as they cross state borders?
Yeah, Republicans did that. They are traitors and the enemy of the American people.
If trans people are a myth then the law is made up.
My first thought! Okay they are a myth so what’s the point of your bill?
You legislating against Bigfoot?
No?
Washington has a law against hunting Bigfoot (but this is to keep people from shooting other people “accidentally” who may or may not be dressed as Bigfoot)
Would I be allowed to shoot people dressed as a deer?
“I thought that hairy, man-sized biped was a deer” is a lot less compelling as a legal defense.
IDK about y’all, but in that scenario, I’d just shoot the cop.
Dead cops can’t arrest anyone, trans or not.
We could compromise! Abolish the police. No one gets hurt that way!
I don’t think “no one gets hurt” is an option in a state where Nazis have taken aim at a bloc of people.
These fucking fascists want to play with fire. They shouldn’t expect to escape unburned.
And murderers magically vanish I suppose?
If the police prevented murder no one would get arrested for it :)
False dichotomy. Police prevents some murder, which is worse than preventing all of it but a lot better than preventing none of it.
Incorrect. The police commit more murders than they prevent. Have a day.
Where’s your source?
Wait… if trans people are a myth, doesn’t that mean that anyone going into the women’s restroom is a woman and anyone going into the men’s restroom is a man?
They’re gonna wish we were a myth soon.
Serious question: if they are a myth, why the need to ban trans people from anything?
I hereby ban dragons from Starbucks! And the bank! And from driving! Muahaha, I’m so fucking evil!!
Their logic, such as it is, is that since trans people don’t exist, anybody in the “wrong” bathroom is there for nefarious reasons.
It’s false to anybody with a brain, because trans people do exist. In fact, even if you think gender dysphoria and trans identity are not how they’re commonly described, harsh punishments for using the “wrong” bathroom still don’t make sense, because the logical conclusion would be that those people are misguided or deluded, not predatory.
Still, it behooves us all to understand the emotional reasoning behind gender-segregated bathrooms: in most cultures (at least Western ones, but I think it goes further) there is a deep-seated idea that certain things are wrong if done in the presence of people of the other gender. Cultures with very different attitudes to nudity, for example, still have gender-segregated baths and saunas. I don’t think there’s any logical reason for this, but people (especially conservatives) feel the need to preserve it: the idea of gender-neutral bathrooms is crazy to them.
What, then, do you do with people who say their gender is other than what you, the dominant culture, say it is? Do you let them use the bathroom/shower/sauna they say they should? But then ANYONE could say their gender is different, and you wouldn’t have gender segregation at all! Oh no!
And actually, I agree with this. I think if you’re going to let people pick which bathroom they use according to their self-identification, gender segregated bathrooms are pointless, so we should get rid of them. Of course, this is not a popular view even among moderate left-wingers in Western countries, never mind Republicans, so we have this stupid culture war.
Agree. The fuck is wrong with a bathroom that has le gasp a urinal AND a toilet in one?!
Gender truly is a fuck.
When my college moved to gender-neutral bathrooms they took every urinal out. It was a 60% loss in places to pee. Gender aside, it was a stupid decision.
That’s The thing i was asking myself too.
Thank you very much for banning me. Now I can go finally touch grass and not read the Internet and fascist going ons.
Seriously dude (dudette? Non binary dragon??), don’t come back, because it’s a billion dollar fine and hundreds of years in horny jail
Is the wording in this really that trans people can’t use certain bathrooms, or that people must use the bathroom that aligns with their sex?
Trans people who’ve medically transitioned ARE using the restroom that aligns with their sex. Trans women are biologically female. Trans men are biologically male. And frankly, I’m tired of pretending otherwise.
What’s the difference?
One acknowledges the existence of trans people and the other doesn’t.
Both discriminate
Your question wasn’t about discrimination, it was about acknowledging the existence of trans people.
My question was obviously about discrimination. You are being deliberately obtuse.
I don’t feed trolls. Fuck off
if they are a myth, why the need to ban trans people from anything?
not about the acknowledging existence of trans people
Okay, buddy.
They probably don’t care about trans people existing, just blaming the smallest minority group for distraction until it doesn’t exist anymore, then going to the next bigger one.
Now why’d you have to go and ban me from everything? grrrr
Idk i dont understand how real people that are alive ans you can talk to them are a myth. Like they’re gonna throw myths in prison?? It makes zero sense.
I could see the vigilante justice response to this would be the theft of gender labeled bathroom signs. It then becomes a 50/50 gamble whether any human that needs to empty their bladder goes to prison for 5 years. Even just opening the door to see if there are urinals or stalls-only should run afoul of this law. Bonus points for activists following lawmakers that voted for this when the lawmaker needs to use a bathroom in an unfamiliar place.
The vigilante move is to protect your trans homies by taking out the cop who is trying to arrest someone for being fuckin trans.
