I dont want to live in this reality any more.
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.
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
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.
what about the witches.
Witches are real.
They killed Charlie Kirk
Actually that sounds right up a politicians alley. Can’t have Bigfoot protest cuz he’s not real.
If they’re a myth, why make a law against a supposed myth? Oh, it’s a talking point of you wanting to make them a myth. Republicans are a myth.
I appreciate the sarcasm, but their actual “thought process” (yes, that belongs in quotes) goes something like this:
- Real trans people don’t exist.
- Therefore, anyone claiming to be trans is either in need of mental healthcare to “fix” them, or else they are lying.
- If they are lying, then their attempt to use an opposite gender bathroom means they must be doing so for reasons that put other people in danger.
- In order to “protect” people from the lying liars, we need to make it illegal for someone to be in the “wrong” restroom.
To put it simply, because they don’t think trans people exist, a person using the wrong gendered bathroom is there to sexually assault people.
Because signs apparently stop rapists.
Which is weird, because people like them are statistically far more likely to commit sexual assault than trans people or drag Queens.
I guess it’s yet another example of right wing projection.
Exactly. And as we’ve already seen in some places, a passing trans person trying to use the “correct” bathroom according to law is more likely to get harassed or even assaulted as a result. These laws don’t fix an actual problem, they just create an environment where innocent people will be punished for the crime of existing in a public space.
Well, that’s the explanation they give publicly. In reality, they just want to hurt and oppress people.
Some do, probably, yes. Some actually believe in this chain of “logic”. Those people really do believe that trans people are a threat to the safety of others. Odds are good those people have never talked to, or possibly even met, a trans person.
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.
Intelligence in Republicans is a Myth.
I’m questioning more often why gendered restrooms even exist.
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
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.
Can’t define something like that when they know it’s subjective.
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.
How far away are we from gay people just being stoned to death in public in the US?
Like, October?
Trans people havent been stoned to death yet, so the gays still have some more time left.
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?
Another reason to avoid Idaho.
Not that I needed one.
I wouldn’t want to go in an extreme bathroom anyway. Sounds gross.
If the law said I don’t exists I would go and rob a bank instead… Nobody would believe them
They’re gonna wish we were a myth soon.
