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.
Wonder how long until someone tries to install AI gender detectors in restrooms.
Now what is going to happen when a post-op trans man, who fully looks like a man, complies with this law by going into a women’s bathroom?
I cant wait for all the CIS conservatives who inevitably get arrested/genital inspected due to this law, and the inevitable crying of “It wasnt supposed to affect me, I feel so humiliated and attacked over this egregious invasion of my body” with zero self awareness or irony.
I cant wait for all the CIS conservatives who inevitably get arrested/genital inspected
The way these organizations operate, you tend to have coordinated groups of TERF brownshirts barging into public spaces and harassing strangers with the support of the church, the majority party, and law enforcement.
If a few Republican lay-voters get swept up in the dragnet, who cares? Idaho is one of the reddest states in the country. Nobody is going to shed a tear for the 6’ tall post-menopausal country mama who gets pepper sprayed by a crack team of transvestigators, because they’ll just relabel her as Far-Left when she objects to rough treatment.
The point of these pogroms is to juice up the partisan insiders and ready them for a wider conflict. A bit of friendly fire is a small price to pay for the libidinal joy of violently oppressing your neighbors, while getting tons of updoots on social media.
I’m scared of laws like this because I’m a cis woman and I have natural facial hair
Laws like this always put non-conservative-traditional women in the crosshairs. Moreso than trans people, despite specifically attacking trans people, simply due to how many more CIS people there are than trans.
Why are elderly men so obsessed with what goes on in women’s restrooms? It’s always about trans women and almost never about trans men (not that this is the main problem).
Also: not just elderly men, sadly.
The whole bathroom obsession just before Donvict was “elected” the first time was just so fucking weird, and has not really let up.
These people supposedly so concerned about it often tell on themselves so hard - they say something like “I’m gonna throw on a wig and a dress and say I identify as a woman so I can go into the women’s bathroom!” Practically giddy about it, partly because they think everyone else should find it a real heckuva kneeslapper.
Seriously, I know two teabaggers/magameatheads who have said that, nearly verbatim. Both times I looked at them and asked just why the fuck would you want to be in there? They don’t seem to even realize that they are telling on themselves. Most people don’t say such things because they don’t want to be creeping around ogling women relieving themselves?
I admire the female form as much as any hetero man, but ogling women in the bathroom? I cannot think of a location less sexually appealing than a restroom. Couple that with the fact that it’s not like an adults-only thing, JFC.
We need seperate bathrooms for MAGA, I don’t feel comfortable sharing a bathroom with them as they are peeping toms and pedophile supporters.
pedophile supporters
You can reduce your character count by removing the unnecessary ‘upporters’.
Well, not all of them are. In particular, not all are sexual criminals.
But all of them see no problem with either.
These gay dudes need to just admit they are gay. We know they are blowing up grinder every time they get together at a con.
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
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.
Using the wrong bathroom = one year in jail!?
New fear/social anxiety unlocked.
Every time I hear stuff like this I wonder what they expect trans Men to do.
Go to Women bathroom? Go to Men bathroom?
They have in mind trans women and while this is disgusting in itself, even following their perverted logic they would clash with their perverted logic on trans men
They expect them to leave the State or “detransition.”
Because conservatism is an ideology for weak-minded, self-centered bootlickers who hate when people use their freedom in ways which they disapprove.
They don’t care. In their minds, trans men are women and they don’t respect women enough to care at all.
Put everyone who enforced this on a list.
After the regime, they go straight to the execution line with ICE and the previous admin.
execution line??
It won’t be interesting to see. People caught up in this will get their lives ruined. Even if they get acquitted, they’ll have lost everything.
We allow our pet dogs to piss anywhere. Yet if you can’t find a “public” bathroom, or find some business to buy a pack of gum for 25c, in order to be a customer to use their restroom, and you piss in an alley around the corner, you face charges like indecent exposure. All because you had to do some very basic natural function but society had placed obstacles and then labels you a criminal. Yet somehow everyone is so goddamn concerned over which bathroom you use.
The U.S. constitution is so old that the writers didn’t see it being a problem (presumably) to not have an explicit right to bodily autonomy.
Brother I hate to be the bearer of bad news
John Adams’s wife, Abigail, wrote him a letter when he was off with the boys at the Continental Congress. She was picking a bone about the lack of protections given to women from their husbands and likened the relationship to that of the colonies and Britain. She was suggesting women should be codified to have more rights. He wrote back something like, “As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh.”
The founding fathers were just as misogynistic as any MAGA fuckhead.
didn’t see it being a problem (presumably) to not have an explicit right to bodily autonomy.
I mean, the bulk of them did own other human beings as property…
I live in upstate NY. Back in the 1980s (yeah, I’m old), we had this little bar up on University called The Generic Bar * the G Bar. Anyhow they had 3 bathrooms, Boys, Girls and Both. Our local mall has three as well but they call one of them “family” restrooms which I think can be used for anyone as they are private. In my entire life as a female, I have never felt threatened in a public bathroom (well, maybe a little intimidated by an attendant to leave a tip). It is ridiculous. Like, maybe Idaho should make some public safety laws on gun ownership like require training and maybe insurance. In the event your gun is not secured, and it stolen or used by another in a crime, the victim (or their family) could collect on that insurance… I am just saying, perhaps they have bigger problems.
Our country sent a cruise missile into a school full of children last week.
They sent two or three missiles in the school. It was a double-tap strike meant to maximize casualties. Some reports say it was a triple-tap.
Wow at this rate the only transgender bathroom left will be Charlie Kirk’s gravestone.
Honestly if there were a law where they had to, and it wasn’t a travel inconvenience, I’d support the bill.
