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The people who make these laws completely forget that trans men exist.
No they didn’t. The point of these laws is exactly what has happened in this article. It’s to force trans people in general to make an impossible choice and be pushed out of existing in public society. There is literally nothing about these laws that is expected to improve anyone’s safety - that’s just the cynical rhetoric used to stop liberals objecting.
I don't think they care. It's all about scoring cheap political points
The fact police weren't even informed about the law says a lot about the priorities
The fact police weren’t even informed about the law says a lot about the priorities
It would be a hard sell to make me believe the police didn't know what was going on here. They're playing innocent in a difficult situation at best.
Okay, this is exactly the kind of malicious compliance that I can get behind. Fucking legends.
Travelling the state, shitting for a cause. Big ups to the GOATs!
It's funny because it's barely even malicious compliance, it's just following the law 😭😭
yes, that's what malicious compliance is
Well yeah but isn't it usually taking advantage of small technicalities within a law to cause disruption? This is literally taking the law at face value, as it was intended
Love it but I prefer “You best respect my trans homies, before I change your pronouns into was and were”
I know those ain’t pronouns but they can’t read so fuck it
A slight rewrite can fix that
“ unless you wish to identify as was/were, you’d best respect my trans homies”
Wow I love that sign.
I wonder if I could get that as a bumper sticker.
That was the point, they wanted a loss loss situation for trans people.
Almost as though the goal was to criminalize trans people for existing.
Why is there such a hang up with where people pee or shit? Not to diminish trans struggles, but this should be a non-issue for law makers, not a state-by-state referendum on where a minority of people use the can.
Gender-neutral toilets for all – problem solved. It would also increase hygiene.
"This tiny group of people are responsible for all the terrible things in your life. I will punish them for you."
It works for immigrants, too. Manufactured outrage is a useful tool for amassing political power.
It's previously been used against women, Jews, Muslims, gay people, gypsies, communists, any number of groups. Give the people a group to hate so they don't start side-eying the small minority who have everything while the rest of us work and starve.
No real attempt to answer your question yet, so I'll do my best:
An unknowable percentage of these people believe that people using the wrong restroom is a gateway to sexual assault.
An unknowable percentage of these people don't believe that, but believe that it's effective propaganda to assert it.
Combined, you more or less get MAGA.
Any guy that spends enough time skiing or snowboarding has seen a girl wearing a helmet and goggles use the mens room because there's no line, and I've never seen anyone care.
Or been to a busy bar
Assholes don't care about bathrooms or they would simply make unisex ones with private stalls, open areas sinks, and complete view to the outside hallway. The safest and most reasonable option, but no here we are getting cops involved because people love being cruel.
Bonus points if having a small sink in a stall. Makes the process more hygienic and is invaluable in certain situations (mess, periods etc.)
I went into a bathroom, and there was either a trans or CD person presenting as female using the urinal. It threw me off, and I thought I went into the wrong bathroom for a sec. Took me a second for my brain to realize, wait, that's a urinal, so I'm definitely in the right place. Because I'm not a piece of shit, I laughed off the awkwardness of seeing a female using a men's urinal and went about my day, but these conservatives who get all mad about trans women using the women's room will 100% be just as outraged when they are in the men's room and see one at a urinal.
Yeah the last time I used a men's room was basically that scenario, except the guy saw me, went to check the sign, then came back in.
I may have done that too 😂
The point is to put trans people in danger
Were they bothering anyone else using that restroom? I doubt it. Maybe the ones who watch everyone coming and going into such facilities should be investigated. Mind your own business, everyone has to relieve themselves. People are ridiculous.
As a dude with long hair, I walked into the stall and then heard the dude that I passed asking the service staff about me. He obviously did not see my beard. People really are ridiculous.
I am very much in favor of unisex toilets plus separated urinals. But we all know that you can't argue with people who create such laws specifically to make the lives of others miserable.
Start calling the cops for every person that uses the bathroom. After all, we can't be sure about their biological sex.
THIS is a fucking powerful protest, good work fellas. <3
Fuck all the transphobes. It's such bullshit and tiring. And I'm a cis white dude, so I don't have to put up with this shit myself, and it's still tiring just to hear about it for decades and decades and decades. (Putting up with it is much worse is what I'm saying.....)
Mad respect to those that stood up (or.... sat down, tee hee hee) in protest. These guys are in the perfect position to make this statement and point out how ridiculous it all is.
Agreed. Pretty clever protest that reveals this was never about "banning the wrong gendered-person from using their preferred bathroom." It was always "ban the wrong-gendered person", and the corpo-protecting pigs played right into it.
Is it illegal to use an opposite gendered restroom if I’m not trans?
Like if I’m a dude and look clearly like a dude and I walk into the women’s restroom is that illegal? What if it’s an emergency and then men’s room is full??
This whole thing is so stupid.
As a father, there were times when my children were in diapers that I had to do exactly that. Because it wasn't until very recently that states started passing laws requiring changing stations be installed in both restrooms. And I wasn't about to change my child's diaper on the filthy floor of a toilet stall. Women were always very understanding about the issue.
It also wasn't until very recently that states started passing these laws about who can use which restroom. It's stupid and, as you can see from this story, it causes a lot more problems than it ever seeks to solve.
Depends on the state. Around here (Maryland) there is no law against it. If the owner wanted to make a deal of it, they could maybe argue tresspess for entering despite the gendered sign telling you not to.
In practice, I've seen (presumably) cis men in the women's restroom to use the changing station as builders around here apparently are not familiar with the concept of fathers.
An extreme faux pas, for sure; but acceptable with the right excuses, respect, and announcement.
Meanwhile making women who type ":3" 30 times a day go to the mens room when no one would bat an eye otherwise is just... Insanely unproductive.
Brave dudes! Good shit
Trying to find and point out logical gotchas to this hatred are a fools errand; the conservatives don’t care. Their base lacks empathy, so good luck appealing to any sense of decency that they [do not] have.
There needs not be any sort of train-of-thought, other than “Fuck the [derogatory words]”. They use words like “science”, “biology”, and “safety” to cloak their hatred in the appearance of law and order. It’s all a game for them, designed to erase us.
They will absolutely come for the rest of the LGBTQ+ community once we are gone. Obergefell will be next. And unless the establishment democrats grow a spine, or are replaced by progressives that will stand up for us, the steamrolling will continue.
That said, protests like these need to happen, and I commend those brave dudes.
First it was the blacks, then more and more people had black friends.
Then it was gays, but more and more families had out gay people.
Now it's trans people, but this is a passing thing.
Who will these weirdos go after next?
These things pass because we organize, inform and fight. They don't pass on their own.
Oh, of course they do. But there is more to it than that.
In the 50s not many gay people were out so it was easy for the Christian right to convince the masses they were child molesters and weirdos worthy of hell. By the 80s, Pride and community unity helped people come out of the closet and not be ashamed or afraid to show the world who they were. Lots of people were coming out of the closet and everyone had at least one gay person in their life. Now it's harder to convince someone that gay people are bad because they're exposed to more gay people and they see they're just like everyone else.
The mob is stupid. Awareness alone doesn't cut it. They need exposure as well.