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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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[–] PunchingBag@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I live in Idaho, and the comments here are as ignorant as ever.

If you are trans/different/nonconservative in any way, let me say this very, very clearly:

THEY WANT YOU DEAD.

Not in prison, not a slave, not a member of society at all.

They want you DEAD.

Stop pussyfooting around this. Passing laws like this is merely a step towards their true goals. I am not being melodramatic, I cannot ring the warning bell hard enough after the conversations I have had with conservatives here. They are doing everything they can to slow-burn us into massacring our own people and even WANTING to think the best of these bad-faith psychos is bad FOR US ALL including THEM. They are essentially children that have been taught that having any moral code is weakness and that lying and cheating is strength. They do NOT have positive intentions and they ARE thinking about the long game. You will not convince them of anything using just words and arguments, not unless you find a way to put a LOT of money in their pockets, and you would have to first convince them that Trump didn't already do exactly that.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

"Idaho" can't be that stupid when it comes to basic logic, unless hateful religion is involved somehow.

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

Only pedophiles would think about children's dicks as much as Republicans do.

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right wingers are all such goddamn freaks I swear.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

And snowflakes

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is this a girl toilet or a guy toilet?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's actually a really easy answer.

It's female.

les toilettes - in french.

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's male in Spanish lol. Does that make toilets non-binary?

el baño / el inodoro

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

as a woman I see so many boys in the women's restroom, it is very common

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Wait til some MAGA Dad gets arrested for this

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about intersex people... can they go in both?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 31 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Oooh! Oooh! I remember this one!

Next, businesses will have to create a separate restroom that says "TRANS ONLY" so things can be "separate but equal"...

ಠ_ಠ

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

No no, you see they want the trans women in the mens room so we're easier to sexually harass and assault.

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[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So now what? Use the "India method" and use the streets as toilet?

[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Can we maybe not put down minority groups while trying to support different minorities?

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

You do know that the India government had to do a campaign to say "poop on the toilet", right? And 1200 million people is not a minority.

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The title is a lie. They are still allowed to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender assigned at birth. From the article:

The Idaho House passed legislation that could make it a felony for transgender people to step foot in a bathroom matching their gender identity.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

The title isn't technically true but it is practically true in many cases. What is a post-op trans person supposed to do? They don't look like the sex they were born as and will surely look out of place if they use the bathroom they're legally supposed to. It will also lead to trouble for people like me, who are cis but can be mistaken for trans (I'm a woman with facial hair). And what about intersex people?

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 2 points 23 hours ago

Oh, I don't dispute that it is a horrible law! It just doesn't justify the title lying about it.

[–] fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 213 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wow at this rate the only transgender bathroom left will be Charlie Kirk's gravestone.

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 days ago (7 children)

We need seperate bathrooms for MAGA, I don't feel comfortable sharing a bathroom with them as they are peeping toms and pedophile supporters.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Plenty of Pedo Protectors and Pedos in the red run Idaho oblast.

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Plenty here on lemmy, too.

[–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Why haven't we adopted gender neutral bathrooms on a global scale?

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

I mean Republicans can't govern. So if they weren't persecuting a minority to appease their bigot base, what would they be doing?

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Gendered bathrooms should be banned. Things being gender-exclusive should generally be illegal (regarded as bigotry/hate).

JUST PUT REAL WALLS INSTEAD OF STALLS

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[–] 7112@lemmy.world 175 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You are loved. You are fine the way you are. The world has a place for you. You are not alone.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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?

[–] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Our country sent a cruise missile into a school full of children last week.

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[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Man, I did not know Idaho was so dominated by lunatics.

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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).

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 55 points 2 days ago (6 children)

We allow our pet dogs to piss anywhere. Yet if you can’t find a “public” bathroom, or find some business to buy a pack of gum for 25c, in order to be a customer to use their restroom, and you piss in an alley around the corner, you face charges like indecent exposure. All because you had to do some very basic natural function but society had placed obstacles and then labels you a criminal. Yet somehow everyone is so goddamn concerned over which bathroom you use.

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