Measure to ban trans Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from women's bathroom fails
Measure to ban trans Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from women's bathroom fails
Congressional Republicans led a similar effort two weeks ago against Delaware’s Sarah McBride, the first transgender person elected to Congress.
Imagine spending all your time and energy preventing someone from going to the bathroom.
Their entire platform is based on control.
Don't forget the part where they ideologically oppose the gov and claim that "free market" for-profit economics of corporate dictatorship will cure what ails ya.
If they do their jobs and don't actively sabotage the gov people might figure out the grift; that they are greedy narcissistic criminals financed by private for-profit interests to destroy democracy and extract wealth from the people...
But think of the children (who don't even use those bathrooms) /s
Even if the children would use it:
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womens bathrooms have stalls only, so the children won't see trans womens genitals.
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trans men can't practically use the urinal until they had bottom surgery and therefore have to use the stalls in the mens room as well.
The only thing left is them implying all trans people are rapists, which is as absurd as implying it for all cis people.
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It's almost like they don't want to address any real political issues.
I mean, segregation was a pretty big thing in this nation...
Question I put to anyone supporting this...
Why would you ban Buck Angel from using the mens room?
They do actually want to ban Buck Angel from using the men's room, and this is the point I always use to illustrate the real hatred underlying this issue. They want people like Buck to be forced into the choice between facing arrest for using one bathroom, or facing violence for using the other. That's the only point of these measures - to make violence and legal threat the only two options available.
The goal is to ban trans people from existing in public.
I agree. I am a trans woman. The bathroom bans are something I really worry about. That's something that can really effect your ability to travel. People read me as a cis woman. And I clearly don't belong in the men's bathroom.
I think the cis population really hasn't thought much about how the mechanics of navigating that space actually works. Most trans people try to take the least disruptive path possible as they transition. Most people keep using the restrooms of their birth sex until people start treating them weird in that space. Eventually people start doing a double-take when they walk in, see you, and check the sign on the door.
I simply will not travel to an area with a bathroom ban. It's just too risky. I either break the law, use the women's room, and hope that no one for some reason clocks me and makes a fuss about it. Or I use the men's room and now I'm visibly using the wrong restroom and causing a disruption. And here's the kicker - I would effectively have to prove that I'm trans. My legal documents say "F" on them. I don't have a single male gender marker in my records. I could easily end up being arrested as legally they would see me as a trans guy trying to use the men's room. It's a mess. And that's before you consider the possibility of assault, which is an unavoidable risk when you're forcibly outed to a bunch of strangers - in this cultural climate.
Now, make a bill that all Republicans must share the same trough style urinal. Male, female, man, woman.
Edit: in addition, all Republicans must subject themselves to inspection for genital verification just because.
Shape, size, defects, disease, estimated mileage, and other attributes shall be tracked and logged in a public database.
Attempts to use a bathroom in a different state shall be a criminal offense.
Equality
Camera, TV.