The form lets people reporting trans bathroom users submit up to 5 photos even though taking pictures in restrooms is illegal.

Texas’ virulently anti-trans attorney general, Ken Paxton ®, has launched a tip line that allows people to report on suspected trans people they believe are violating the state’s new bathroom ban.

In a statement announcing the tip line, Paxton said the Texas Women’s Privacy Act – which requires people in public buildings to use bathrooms based on sex assigned at birth – “was passed to ensure that women and girls in Texas are protected from mentally ill men wanting to violate their basic right to privacy.”

“It’s absolute insanity that action like this is even needed,” he claimed, “but unfortunately, in the day and age of radical leftism, it is.”

In reality, research has shown no evidence that allowing trans women access to single-sex spaces like bathrooms poses a safety risk to cisgender women.

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    “It’s absolute insanity that action like this is even needed,” he claimed, “but unfortunately, in the day and age of radical leftism, it is.”

    “Radical leftism” is treating every person like human beings, regardless of their gender, race, religion, or income.

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    Maybe we can let trans people live their lives.

    Instead, let’s report sex offenders. We could upload the epstein files to the tipline - apparently evety black rectangle represents a sexual assault committed by Trump.

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    So they want right-wing pedos and creeps to creep on strangers in public spaces because… somehow doing exactly that isn’t already illegal? Huh?

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    Texas unveils “tip line” to send nonconsentual photos of naked woman to their elected officials.

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    I’m looking forward to the invasion of privacy lawsuits that will come as a result of this.

    And I hope every motherfucker that takes a single picture is publicly listed as a sex offender.

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    Is Ken Paxton virulently anti-trans? Because this feels like the last ditched effort of a desparate man in a red state who lost access to his favorite porn sub-genre when Pornhub pulled out. Feels very voyeur trans scat fetish-esque to me.

    Guys, guys… I’ve figured it out. I just need you to send me peeping Tom photos of trans folks peeing. It’s so critical. And not just one or two. We need thousands, no, millions of photos. Send them to [email protected].

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    Maralago face looks masculine.

    There i said it.

    I don’t even know how.

    Since it’s pumped lips and lifted eye brows. But it makes the women look like they are men in drag but somehow super ugly.

    (Cause drag queens are fabulous.)

    I am totally on board for harassing conservative women with maralago or non-maralago face in the women’s restroom.

    I’ll do my best to memorize the faces/names of local women from the heritage foundation, mothers for liberty group (or whatever they are called) and any other similar groups. Any woman wearing maga clothing (why do they advertise themselves?).

    And I will 100% question them about their vagina or lack there of, while in the bathroom. I will demand to see it or threaten to call security or the police.

    Let’s see how they like that.

    Since I’m white, short, and look and sound like a woman. I will use my pussy privilege and take on this responsibility. 😇 I promise to rise to the occasion and punish these bitches as best I can.

    I’ve got a lot of feminist rage in me over all the b.s occurring and need an outlet. It’s a win win for me personally.

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      Maralago face looks masculine.

      Of course it does, you have a bunch of narcissistic billionaire men who are in love with themselves.

      The clouds above my neighbourhood are getting sick of me screaming at them everyday, they actually got together and left a letter on my porch, didn’t even know clouds could do that. On the plus side, I now know the fluffy one’s name is Lobo now. The rage is real.

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      Fire bomb the building that houses the tip line? Plant a car bomb into the Republican governor’s car? Spam the tip line for a few weeks and then forget about it? I’ma bet we only do the last one.

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    I wonder how many women will be getting photographed mistakenly (or out of malice) and accused of being trans?

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    I’m waiting to see how this blows up in their face by people just sending millions of memes and generative AI pictures inflicting a DDOS

    Edit: adjusted acronym; Denial of Service or Distributed Denial of Service

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      you mean DOS… or really DDOS.

      i think this will blow up naturally when people start get arrested/ beat up, for taking pictures of strangers in the bathroom

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    I know it might seem beneficial to flood the tip line with garbage data but they don’t care about the truth and months from now they will just say that they have evidence of thousands and thousands of perpetrators and they’ll use your garbage data as their talking point