Kentucky Republican State Senator C.B. Embry has sponsored a bill that would effectively put a bounty on transgender students who are caught using the “wrong” gendered bathroom. Students who catch their trans peers using the facilities of their chosen gender would be entitled to sue the school for $2,500 worth of damages relating to “psychological and emotional damage.”
The bill would “require students born male to use only those facilities designated to be used by males and students born female to use only those facilities designated to be used by females.”
Embry says he has no problem with trans students, adding that “they’re certainly welcome to live their lives as they choose, if they want to dress as the opposite sex and the school is OK with that, that’s fine.”
In his mind, you have to draw the line somewhere, and that somewhere is the little male and female signs on bathrooms. Because god forbid we educate kids on what it means to be transgender. For Embry, it’s much easier to appease the “normal” kids while pointing a finger at the trans ones, telling them their identity isn’t real.
But before you go calling him a bigot, allow him to shove his foot a little further into his mouth. “I have a friend, and we can all say these things, who is a homosexual and she agrees that she doesn’t want men in her bathroom,” he told US News.
We’re so happy your one lesbian friend with no experience of being trans agrees with you on this. The rest of us, however, do not.
h/t Raw Story
Paul Nadolski
The utter idiocy of some people just somehow continues to shock me…
Cam
““I have a friend, and we can all say these things, who is a homosexual and she agrees that she doesn’t want men in her bathroom,” he told US News.”
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1. Lesbian isn’t the same thing as Transgender
2. Just like every right winger claims they have a gay friend, but can never actually produce them when asked.
jwtraveler
I don’t know what these transphobes think kids are doing in the bathroom. In college I lived in a co-ed dorm and male and female students peed, pooped and showered in adjoining stalls without anyone suffering any trauma.
It would be great if they were as concerned about all the kids being bullied, tormented and attacked in schools to the point where some of them commit suicide.
jwtraveler
@Paul Nadolski: Shock, yes. Unfortunately it no longer surprises me. It’s rampant.
onthemark
What if a F-to-M glues on a fake mustache like the one he has on?
Ladbrook
Aside from the obvious idiocy coming from his brain, I can’t get past the fact that he has pedo-face.
MoreProtein
He’s not only a bigot,but cruel aswell.
Josh in OR
So, a guy who looks like he hangs around school yards in an unmarked windowless van taking pictures of children for ‘research’…has a problem with kids feeling comfortable using the bathrooms that fit their gender identity. And people are taking him seriously…?
Saint Law
Those eyes, glasses, teeth and hair seem about as real as the ones you can get in a kit to make a vegetable look like a human face. The face, as has been remarked, of a paedo.
Mr Paedato: the paedo made of potato.
heavylifter
I think school kids should use the toilet according to their sex, if you have female genitalia use the female toilets, penis use the male ones.
Personally I don’t want to share the mens toilet with a female no matter what she claims about her “gender identity”. And the reality is most women would be very uncomfortable with a man using their public toilets.
It seems that trans is the new hip, edgy social justice crusade. Everyone is fashionably jumping on board without giving it any thought.
Josh in OR
@heavylifter: I’ve used the ‘ladies’ room with my female friends without any incident when we go out, and I’m 6’3″ and 300 lbs. My female friends have used the ‘mens’ room with me as well, again, without incident or issue, except from people who are caught up in Puritanical sexuality issues. JUST because a female is using a bathroom that is labeled for men (or vice versa) doesn’t mean that the men need to feel uncomfortable. If you ARE uncomfortable using a bathroom with someone of another gender or gender identity, that’s YOUR problem and you should really think about why it makes you uncomfortable rather than foisting your issues on other people.
gryphen
@heavylifter:
I highly recommend you never breed. That, by the way, is my medical opinion.
jwtraveler
@heavylifter: Frankly, I think more women should use the Men’s restrooms so they don’t have to wait in line for hours at Women’s rooms that are designed by male architects to be too small to accommodate the number of women at public events. That’s the real bathroom politics issue if anyone is looking for one.
heavylifter
@Josh in OR:
Just because you and your faghags hangout in club toilets doing drugs, does not make it normal, k?
Ummm, having your willy out at the urinal when some woman comes in. You don’t think that is something a man should be uncomfortable with. You obviously are the one with a problem.
I know, why don’t you organise an activists parade demanding all toilets be made unisex because its “oppressing”, I’m sure you would get heaps of public support, lol.
Harley
Sounds like a way for students to get easy money. Incidents could easily be “staged” in order to file lawsuits and make money. Way to go. Now the schools will have to lay off more teachers, cut more lunch programs, cut out more classes. Teaching ONLY the test. Ahhhh, America is so great.
Harley
@heavylifter: oh, and heavy lifter, why don’t you take your 450 pound ass out to the gym and loose some weight and stop trolling gay sights, closet case.
heavylifter
@jwtraveler:
The real politics there is that men have a natural advantage don’t they? So much for gender being merely “socially constructed”, lol.
heavylifter
@Harley:
You mean gay echo chamber.
Dakotahgeo
Another shit Republican/TEApublican! Is there a landfill big enough for all of them?!?
jwtraveler
@heavylifter: Huh?
Josh in OR
@heavylifter: Ooooooooh. Man, dude, you’re SO cool! I mean, assumptions about my relationships and baseless accusations of drug use and trans-phobic bigotry all in one package? PLUS internalized homophobia TOO!? Man, I dunno about anyone else, but I’m SUPER turned on by you. You’re clearly a real man, and not a sad, bitter little troll.
nymarshall
This guy looks like he got a dirty sanchez…
aliengod
The bill would “require students born male to use only those facilities designated to be used by males and students born female to use only those facilities designated to be used by females.”
What’s wrong with that? Seems like a pretty basic principle that if you have a penis you use the men’s room and if you don’t, you use the women’s. This silliness with “gender identity” is the wrong message to send to kids.
Dakotahgeo
@aliengod: You really are an alien… but hardly any kind of G/god!!!
jwtraveler
@aliengod: What silliness is that? That people should make decisions about their own lives for themselves and other people should respect those decisions? Yes, that truly is a silly idea. Better that some Pope or mullah or autocrat or YOU should make decisions for everyone and then punish, beat, banish, imprison or execute them if they don’t fall in line.
aliengod
@jwtraveler: We don’t make those decisions, nature does. It’s basic biology.
Surely you don’t believe that I, as a man, should be able to walk into the women’s restroom whenever I’d like?
Dakotahgeo
@aliengod: IF YOU’RE A MAN, OF COURSE NOT!; IF YOU ARE A TRANS PERSON OR WOMAN, BY ALL MEANS! THAT should not be difficult to figure out!
transiteer
It still surprises me as to how Conservatives go the extra mile to inflict hate and harm on others for no apparent reason than for the sheer pleasure of it. And they look like some monster off Leave it to Beaver too don’t they? Did he quote something from the Bible too – maybe I missed that – but it wouldn’t surprise me. These retards grasp at anything to show how their religion is poison, and their morals are in line with Himmler.
jwtraveler
@aliengod: If only life were as simple as your mind.