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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?
He'll still be arrested or at the least harassed, and that's the point. The goal is to prevent trans people from using any public bathrooms.
Pee on the door to it.
Public urination puts you on the sex offender registry
It'd say piss your pants in front of the bathrooms but then you've pissed your pants and some poor minimum wage teenager will have to clean it up.
Does that include public urination without the use of a penis? I know it probably does. Just giggling at the idea of some infinite loop where you can’t convict because the bathroom law doesn’t recognize a post op penis as male.
Post op is still trans. These people don't care.
The bill doesn't say "use the correct restroom". It says "people we don't like can't use any restroom"
That's how the title is worded, but it's the usual BS "you must use the one that matches your biological sex" thing.
Once, I was told by the manager of a place I was at that I had to use the women’s bathroom. A cis man followed me in and beat me, only stopping when a woman told him to get out. I was a minor at the time, 15 or 16. He was a grown ass adult. This was all the way back in 2012, I’m pretty sure. Never used public bathrooms again until I left the US last year.
So, I guess if you’re a trans man, your choices are to comply with the law and get beaten (even if you’re a child, since as we know, this is all to protect the kids after all) or to not comply and get fined/arrested.
It's two shitty choices: Use the one that people seem to see you as and be terrified someone will challenge your right to be there the whole time, or go in the one that you clearly don't look like and have your ID ready for anyone who challenges your right to be there. Dystopian police state BS!
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.