File this one under: really, bitch?
State lawmakers in Kansas have introduced the “Student Physical Privacy Act,” two bills which would allow public school and university students in the state to sue their school for $2,500 whenever they saw someone they identified as transgender in the bathroom.
With only two weeks left in the Kansas legislation session, it’s apparently silly season. We have no words. Luckily, ThinkProgress is here to break down this complete waste of taxpayer time and money:
The complementary bills (SB 513 and HB 2737) declare in no uncertain terms that transgender students are going to harm other students just by using the same facility alongside them. “Allowing students to use restrooms, locker rooms and showers that are reserved for students of a different sex will create potential embarrassment, shame, and psychological injury to students,” they read.
Like bills proposed in other states, these measures attempt to define “sex” in a narrow way — in this case, “the physical condition of being male or female, which is determined by a person’s chromosomes, and is identified at birth by a person’s anatomy.” The definition ignores the many genetic and anatomic variations that can actually occur in how sex actually presents itself and, by design, erases the significance of transgender identities entirely. The explicit goal is to “maintain order and dignity in restrooms, locker rooms, showers and other facilities where students may be in various states of undress in the presence of other students.”
Even Republicans in the state realize what a waste of time and energy the proposal is. Rep. Stephanie Clayton said that the situation “demonstrates a distinct lack of focus.”
How about we take this to the next level?
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The prospect of antitrans bounty hunters scouring bathrooms looking for a quick payoff would be ludicrous if it weren’t so terrifying to transgender people in Kansas.
We hope that lawmakers in Kansas use their better judgement and respond to this foolishness with the vitriol it deserves.
bottom250
Ohhh sweethearts I can see this back firing when Trans men are using the women’s washroom.
Kris Bradley
Because encouraging people to peek at other people’s genitals won’t cause any problems at all…
David G. Abler
Si-igh
1EqualityUSA
Republicans are a joke.
Antony Nguyen
Why cant you just go to the bathroom? I dont get the stings n bathroom laws. If there was a line on either side i couls care less which room i am in i am just wanting to go to bathroom. Stop worrying about who is going to the bathroom with you new alert we all go potty
RIGay
It’s the Pee Police!! And they are coming for you!
Okay, so my 54-year old prostrate really likes when I sit to pee… does this mean I will be arrested and accused of being trans for not using a urinal?
IS THERE NOTHING BETTER THAT LAW MAKERS CAN FOCUS ON besides MY PENIS?
Antony Nguyen
So rather then go to the bathroom set up and catch unsuspecting bathroom goers to get 2,500 i hope they catch all in office
robho3
Oh vey
GC1985
Transmen should use the women’s bathroom and see how this backfires then!
You see people… this is solid example of what Trump would bring to this country. And please don’t lie to yourself and say he’s a moderate.
Frankie Trice
Sick–the witch hunts begin.
Zach Nobel
They are both men and women. Instead of paying people to catch trans people in regular bathrooms, how about using that money to build……oh idk…..maybe…and this is gonna sound CRAZY…….but…..A GENDERLESS BATHROOM?!?!?!?!?! Instead of paying people to be perverts, just build a genderless bathroom
Alex Rothwell
How can anyone possibly enforce this stupid law ? Everyone should use the toilet in peace.
Luke Ellison
Why not just have a unisex bathroom? One at a time
John Malin
Watch, the pervert legislators will be lining up to collect the money!
Benet Leigh
Will they be checking under the skirts?
Stached1
Oh well.
onthemark
@GC1985: It’s easy to imagine how this will end up.
Heidi Cruz goes to Kansas, tries to pee, and a Trump supporter accuses her of being trans.