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.
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I 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.
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.
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’.
We need a separate planet for MAGA.
Are you a republican woman with broad shoulders, a big nose, or a square jaw. Congrats, the Karens are now going to ask the cops to look at your junk.
those were the kerens
Now the hot Karens are going to want to see what the MTG-look’s Karens are packing.
Honestly the fastest way to kill this would be to report everyone in as many locations for as long as possible, gum up the works until no one responds
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
Laws like this always put non-conservative-traditional women in the crosshairs. Moreso than trans people, despite specifically attacking trans people, simply due to how many more CIS people there are than trans.
The goal is far greater than that. Cis people, and especially cis women, are going to be deliberately caught up in this, not accidentally. Once the sheep have been convinced that trans people are irredeemably evil, watch as the definition of “trans” expands ever-outward. Are you a woman that wears pants? That sounds like cross-dressing to me. Oh, you want to work a job like engineering? Learn to appreciate your biological sex, you transgender freak! Stop pretending to be a man and get a career appropriate to your biological sex.
I cant wait for all the CIS conservatives who inevitably get arrested/genital inspected
The way these organizations operate, you tend to have coordinated groups of TERF brownshirts barging into public spaces and harassing strangers with the support of the church, the majority party, and law enforcement.
If a few Republican lay-voters get swept up in the dragnet, who cares? Idaho is one of the reddest states in the country. Nobody is going to shed a tear for the 6’ tall post-menopausal country mama who gets pepper sprayed by a crack team of transvestigators, because they’ll just relabel her as Far-Left when she objects to rough treatment.
The point of these pogroms is to juice up the partisan insiders and ready them for a wider conflict. A bit of friendly fire is a small price to pay for the libidinal joy of violently oppressing your neighbors, while getting tons of updoots on social media.
Only pedophiles would think about children’s dicks as much as Republicans do.
I use a unisex bathroom in Austin that had urinals and stalls. I felt like such a badass when I kept my composition while making a peepee while three women passed behind me going in and out of the bathroom.
And when I went to wash my hands, no one looked at each other or said hi or anything. The way it should be in a bathroom. Quit talking to me while I’m trying to not pee on the floor, guys!
Right wingers are all such goddamn freaks I swear.
And snowflakes
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?
They don’t care. That goes right back to the whole point of these types of bills, which is to criminalize being transgender.
He will be arrested, and the news will report that a “trans-identified biological male” was in the women’s restroom. Fascists don’t give a fuck about internal consistency.
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).
The whole bathroom obsession just before Donvict was “elected” the first time was just so fucking weird, and has not really let up.
These people supposedly so concerned about it often tell on themselves so hard - they say something like “I’m gonna throw on a wig and a dress and say I identify as a woman so I can go into the women’s bathroom!” Practically giddy about it, partly because they think everyone else should find it a real heckuva kneeslapper.
Seriously, I know two teabaggers/magameatheads who have said that, nearly verbatim. Both times I looked at them and asked just why the fuck would you want to be in there? They don’t seem to even realize that they are telling on themselves. Most people don’t say such things because they don’t want to be creeping around ogling women relieving themselves?
I admire the female form as much as any hetero man, but ogling women in the bathroom? I cannot think of a location less sexually appealing than a restroom. Couple that with the fact that it’s not like an adults-only thing, JFC.
Also: not just elderly men, sadly.
Why haven’t we adopted gender neutral bathrooms on a global scale?
Shut the fuck up, regard. If we did that how the hell would we be able to attack this easy target of vulnerable people?!
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.
My local mall has a gender neutral bathroom. Unfortunately, only one person can use it at a time
Do they include a definition of “biological sex”? And of how that’s going to be determined?
Of course not. They have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. They just want to hurt people
What about intersex people… can they go in both?
If it comes up in court, I guess they’ll be forced to specify if they’re defining biological sex by chromosomes, genitalia, or some other biological feature. Unfortunately, the law was made by people who are completely oblivious to the complexity of biological sex. This is why people shouldn’t be allowed to make laws without knowing the science if these things. Same thing with anti-abortion laws being made by people who don’t understand biology
The people making this law have no idea that there are people who are biologically intersex and, if told, will dismiss it as irrelevant because they’re “a tiny minority”. Deaf people are also a small minority and it’s common practice to accommodate them. All people should be considered when making a law with the threat of jail time.
I think it’s even more than just people who would be classified as intersex
There are various markers for sex: DNA*, hormonal levels/profile, gonadal tissue, gametes, the shape of the genitals, and even the shape of the skeleton. Probably more that I’m just not bringing to mind right now
And it would be pretty unusual for any one individual to have all of those markers point unambiguously in one direction
So the first question is - if it’s going to be law that people have to be divided into two precise categories according to their biological sex, what marker is being used to determine which category they fit in
If pressed on this, transphobes often default to gametes, with a fudge to the effect that people who don’t produce gametes should be judged by what gametes they would produce if their reproductive systems were producing gametes
Okay, so, someone goes into one public toilet. Someone calls the police on them because they don’t think they’re a biological match. The police turn up…how are they going to determine what gametes that individual would produce if they produced gametes?
Because you can’t just select a marker and not have a test to determine who fits where, can you?
Which means, logically, what are we looking at? Genital inspections. Because that’s realisically the only test which can be administered
So does this law have an exception for children? Or are they enshrining in law that it’s okay for adults to force children to show them their genitals? To protect kids, of course. There’s no possible way that could have any negative consequences
But even that’s not the point, really, horrible and disgusting though it is. The point is that they don’t know and haven’t thought about what they actually mean when they use those terms, and they certainly haven’t thought about the actual consequences of the law
There’s basically two options - unthinking transphobia, or “I don’t actually care about this issue, but I’m making a big deal of it because I’m otherwise unelectable and if I can make people worried about ‘for the children!’ and paint the other side as paedophiles I might get elected again even by people who disagree with me on literally everything else”
And trans people suffer and are put in danger in the short-term, as do cis people who don’t fit into whatever narrow prejudices the general public have about gender expectations, and children of whatever sex/gender are put in danger in the slightly longer-term
*which in and of itself is a lot more complicated and nuanced than just X/Y
I was recently listening to a video of a call-in show where someone called in and made this argument that sex should be defined by what gametes they’re “supposed to” produce. Supposed by who? The host said that’s not science, that’s fortune telling. Someone in the comments said they were an intersex chimera (male and female twins fused together in the womb) so which sex were they “supposed to” be?
I am, as far as I know, a cisgender woman. Though I’ve never actually had my chromosomes tested. But I have facial hair, a secondary sex characteristic normally associated with men. If I don’t trim or shave regularly, I get a full beard. People who see me in public probably assume I’m trans. When I use public bathrooms, I fear being attacked because I’m mistaken for trans. Fortunately, that doesn’t seem to happen in my area. If I were in Idaho, would I now have to carry my birth certificate to prove I’m female? Would I have to have my genitals inspected? Would I have to go to court and prove I’m female?
The cruelty is and has always ever been the point.
A felony? LOL
I wonder if they are smart enough to put exceptions in for children where the father or mother may possibly take the child into the ‘wrong’ bathroom.
Wait til some MAGA Dad gets arrested for this
Wonder how long until someone tries to install AI gender detectors in restrooms.
Cheaper to use volunteers. Every Incel in Idaho will line up to be the Vulva Inspector.
Problem is, they’ve never actually seen one.
They could just install those tiny circular toilet seats, and measure whose weight is shifted farther back to prevent dong/seat contact.
The jokes on them! Dong/seat contact is my kink.
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