The legislation takes aim directly at trans individuals using the restroom or locker rooms, threatening those who “knowingly” and “willfully” enter facilities designated for the “opposite biological sex” with prison time. A first offense would count as a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. Those caught using the bathroom in repeated offenses, however, could be convicted as felons and face up to five years in prison.
It’ll be interesting to see how this aligns with the Full Faith and Credit clause for someone who updates their birth certificate from another state that allows for that then uses the bathroom that aligns with said certificate.
Jaysus christo this is fucking weird and insane. And there is such an obvious, easy answer for the whole “problem” (of course there is no actual problem, this is insane fear mongering and hatred, but still…)
America: GIVE PEOPLE (ALL PEOPLE) PRIVACY IN PUBLIC BATHROOMS. Stop using “stalls” with gaps so large there may as well not be any dividers. Just look at a European bathroom where the toilets are in their own small rooms with doors that run from floor to ceiling. Seriously, you could remove the gender separation entirely and it wouldn’t affect anything.
You are not thinking of the next (idiotic) issues: hypothetical people doing drugs in the stall and hypothetical people having sex in the stall.
Of couse if it was closed neither of the two would be an issue but, as far as I know, these are the motivators for the stupid stalls
Neither of those are bad actually; they are indeed idiotic issues
People doing drugs? They should be allowed to. Banning them doesn’t work; the government should just properly regulate them. Like how the EU is dealing with cigarettes. And in that case people would be less inclined to hide drug use.
People fucking? I mean like maybe it’s not the best place to do it. But if it’s properly closed off it’s not like anyone will see it; it’s not indecent.
My local mall has a gender neutral bathroom. Unfortunately, only one person can use it at a time
You are not thinking of the next (idiotic) issues: hypothetical people doing drugs in the stall and hypothetical people having sex in the stall.
Of couse if it was closed neither of the two would be an issue but, as far as I know, these are the motivators for the stupid stalls
All the hypotheticals are just a race to the bottom.
I can’t stand how so much of this country thinks bringing everyone down to combat a supposed extreme minority became the accepted solution to fucking everything.