The ongoing race to be as cruel as possible to LGBT people just reached new depths: one little town in Alabama is working on a law that would send you to jail for six months or fine you $500 for peeing in a bathroom that officials don’t approve of.
Yup, that’s right: half a year behind bars if you don’t look like what they think you should look like.
The ordinance seems to have been written by seven-years-olds, or at least someone with a commensurate mental capacity. It says, sic throughout:
Citizens have a right to quite solicitude and to be secure from embarrassment and unwanted intrusion into their privacy… single sex public facilities are places of increased venerability and present the potential for crimes against individuals utilizing those facilities which may include, but not limited to, voyeurism, exhibitionism, molestation, and assault and battery.
Ugh, just awful. Where to even begin? For one thing, if they’re so concerned about perverts using the opposite gender’s bathrooms … why aren’t they worried about perverts using the same gender’s bathroom? Like, isn’t this just telling criminals, “Hey, if you’re going to commit a crime, just make sure you do it in the men’s room”?
How about we take this to the next level?
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For another thing, as has been explained time and time again, trans women are women. So we’re not talking about men in the women’s room. We’re talking about women in the women’s room. Whether they’ve had surgery or changed their birth certificate or even present visually as female… if a person says they’re a woman, they’re a woman.
And of course, there isn’t any real risk of trans people causing problems in bathrooms, or even of non-trans people using inclusive policies as a shield, because that never happens.
But laws like this DO pose a threat to LGBT people. Not just trans people — anyone who seems gender-nonconforming is at risk, as evidenced by this video that recently resurfaced that appears to show a woman being ejected by police from a bathroom simply for being a butch dyke.
Nevertheless, the bill passed the city council unanimously, so if you’re trans and living in Alabama you might want to raise a fuss. You can start by showing up to the next city council meeting, following them into the bathroom, and demanding to see some ID.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Nothing new here. It’s always been illegal for these men to go into the women’s restroom. This law just confirms it.
crowebobby
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: But she’s not a man, you moron! She’s not even a “trans” woman; she’s just s GIRL who looks like a boy.
Daniel-Reader
Since most crimes are committed by cisgender heterosexual males (even against other cisgender heterosexual males) outside the bathroom, when are lawmakers going to pass an ordinance that criminalizes cisgender heterosexual males for leaving the bathroom? And since a 16 year old cisgender girl was killed in New Jersey by another cisgender girl in a bathroom, when are lawmakers going to protect cisgender girls from other cisgender girls in the bathroom? Oh that’s right… it is already illegal to use a bathroom for doing anything other than going to the bathroom. These politicians are just demonizing one group rather than face reality. Hypocrites!
tricky ricky
@Daniel-Reader: CISGENDER: a term of derision created by transsexuals who claim to be women but still have a penis to mock gay and straight people who are comfortable with the sex they were born.
a 16 year old girl (heterosexual) was killed by another 16 year old girl (heterosexual) in a fight involving several people in a school in a disagreement over a boy. you can shove your cisgender bullsh*t. your comment for the most part was just plain old fashioned stupid.