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Taking away the freedom of movement from a targeted minority? Seems familiar.
"In addition to invalidating transgender residents’ state identification documents, the new law will require people in government-owned buildings to use restrooms and other multi-occupancy private spaces in accordance with their sex assigned at birth."
Please, PLEASE, do this. Get those real big hairy Bear ftms to go into the womens bathrooms and be all masculine. This will last all of 1 day until the ciswomen are severely pissed off and demand changing it back. I wish I was ftm and big, bearded, and hairy all over, just to see the looks on conservative womens' faces as they really rethink their values.
Huh? They'll just call the cops and get you thrown in jail for perversion.
I fully share the "burn it down" sentiment. Trans men get beaten for doing exactly this. A trans man was beaten for using the women's restroom because it was the only one with a toilet..
I know the trans-masc community knows not to put themselves in danger for this. No one's going to "prove" anyone wrong. All that will happen is the people who want trans people dead will get trans people dead.
This is the intent. Give them an impossible choice and punish them for doing anything but staying at home.
In same camp of supporting the sentiment, I played this out in my head.
Okay, but what if they’re open carrying a large gun?
[Bad outcome]
Okay, what if they open carry and have a body camera (that they turn off while in the restroom, obviously)?
[Bad outcome and ignored by media - bad outcome]
Okay, what if there’s a group that’s open carrying and have body cameras?
[Bitch, did you just determine they had to form a militia to go to the bathroom away from home? Sigh.]
I don’t know the solution, other than for people to mind their own fucking business.
You are not the first person to say this.
And as I understand it, trans men are as a group kida sick of being volintold to put themselves in harms way. It's great that you recognize that they are men and are treated as such in your "men should do danger" sexism, but don't suggest someone else do what you're not willing to do yourself.
Get few skirts and maybe some makeup, dress yourself in drag, and then make a habit of asking every restaurant or shopping mall or store what bathroom you should use.
(Sure, you'd likely get harassed and banned and maybe arrested, but there's a minority being oppressed and standing beside them is what strong allies do.)
Someone is almost certainly going to be killed because some vigilante saw the "wrong" person using the restroom.
Sadly, this is what they want. They want that to happen so MAGAt women can falsely accuse those ftms of assaulting women in the restrooms and mobs of MAGAt men can then attack them and beat them half (or more) to death for using the women's restroom.
I imagine one of the next steps is to legislate that outward appearance should match the birth certificate gender as well.
Better still. Cis women with strong jawlines should dress like they're men in drag, and go looking for bathrooms. Then absolutely freak out and make a huge scene in public when they get challenged.
They do not care, none of this is about "fairness" nor will lead to any embarrassment on their part, they WANT to shame cis women who aren't "pretty enough" by their cartoonish mara-lago standards, they WANT to investigate women's genitals and make women feel violated. If they could, they would have groups of men molesting girls and women outside every bathroom in the USA. This was never about actual safety of anyone, it's always been about reinforcing control and power.
For proof, they sure don't seem to care about investigating trans men using the men's restroom. They have a perception of power and where it belongs and are doing everything to clutch onto that power and hold onto it as our world changes.
The lawsuits would be SO MUCH FUN though.
I was all for this idea until I read the reply. And they're right unfortunately
But think of the $uffering you would endure and how much you could make them cough up afterwards!
There are so many places in 'Murica that genuinely seem to want to be remembered badly by history
The right wing keeps thinking if we just remove these people it will be better, when that doesn't work, they move on to a new group over and over again until you're the group that's causing the problem and they remove you.
Next up, gays, women, people who speak Spanish, college graduates, left handed people and red-heads.
Interracial Marriage too, easy-peasy to set up: "We have intelligence reports that REALLY BAD TERRORISTS are using marriage to immigrate into the USA, so we are now investigating every marriage between native citizens (whites) and people of other nationality (not white) and invalidating marriage certificates so we can kick these baby-eating monsters out of the country!"
edit: I'm really not kidding here, I am getting called a fearmonger for this prediction the same way I was called a fearmonger about warning they would repeal Roe Vs Wade and make their own paramilitary federal brute squad/police force. But they JUST announced that they would be ramping up de-naturalization efforts up with a monthly quota of thousands of people per month having their citizenship revoked, as opposed to this being an exceptionally rare thing only for fringe cases.
Even if that doesn’t happen, isn’t this bad enough? Fighting this shouldn’t be contingent on it potentially happening to other groups.
It's always more persuasive to appeal to self interest rather than altruism.
Altruism is the sprinkles on the cupcake of self interest
How very American.
Last hired, first fired
Death to 
and its Nazi regime
There's no better ~~Republican~~ Nazi than a dead one.
Every lawmaker who voted for this is guilty of treason.
lawmaker
guilty of treason
Paraphrasing the words of Mark Carney at an absolutely bonkers world financial summit recently, the illusion of liberal rule-of-law is over.
Lawmakers are above the law. We stopped caring if they represented our actual values so we started letting criminals run the prison.
Land of the free, hey?
Freedom of hate speech. *that's about it
Free to do as they're told.
Those printers screwed that all up.
It's supposed to read:
Land of the Fee,
Home of the Slave.
Oops, better remove this Bar Logo.
Obligatory
Whoever told you that is your enemy
Fucking hellhole of a country.
Blue states like Colorado should be making it easier for people stuck in the shithole states like Kansas to get CO driver's licenses with accurate gender markers
Maybe the government should quit giving a fuck about gender on documents at all.
Common names are easy to parse gender until they’re not. I just met an elderly man named Courtney. My niece’s legal name is “Jaime”, which is a common male name amongst Mexicans. My elementary school had a Pat of both genders. Sam as well.
Then there are names from other cultures that speak non-Germanic, non-romance languages. Good luck knowing Mandarin or Cantonese names by reading them. Same with some Irish and welsh names. Same with names from Africa.