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.
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’m scared of laws like this because I’m a cis woman and I have natural facial hair
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.
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).
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.
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?
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.
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 don’t care. In their minds, trans men are women and they don’t respect women enough to care at all.
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
Thomas Jeffersons wife wrote him a letter when he was off 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. 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.
Crazy Mericans…
Wow at this rate the only transgender bathroom left will be Charlie Kirk’s gravestone.
Give the kid a rest, will ya? He’s already had it up to his neck in gun violence.
Honestly if there were a law where they had to, and it wasn’t a travel inconvenience, I’d support the bill.
My home state made the news again! What do we have today? Another way for me to be a felon by existing where I grew up? Neat I love that! Keeping it classy Idaho, as always.
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Here, nowI know Idaho is bleak right now but there are many areas much more accepting than Idaho.
It’s hard but I strongly encourage moving somewhere more blue. As someone that lives in a blue stronghold the cults is much more accepting than these places.
Boise isn’t down for the count yet. Last year when the state started coming after Pride flags on government property the Mayor and City Council adopted the Pride flag as our city flag. The state legislature has been trying to figure out how to override that ever since. We ran the Hammerskins out of town when they tried to have a music festival, we’ve put MAGAt business owners out of business, we’ve got a lot of teachers and librarians operating malicious compliance to the anti-woke mandates, and I’ve seen more than a few bigots get their teeth knocked out and heads stomped. They might have taken over our state but they haven’t taken over our city.
Moscow Idaho is also still holding out for a bit longer. Lots of trans people going there as a stepping stone to get to Seattle, it’s got Inland Oasis running pride and drag events and doing a lot of work making queer spaces. It is currently being literally invaded by christo fascists so I worry it’s a matter of time but for now at least it’s still a decent place (especially compared to most other parts of Idaho though I know that bar is so low you’d need a shovel to find it). I wish Boise all the best in their resistance
