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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    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.

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

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    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

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      Shut the fuck up, regard. If we did that how the hell would we be able to attack this easy target of vulnerable people?!

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    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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      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.

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    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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      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.

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    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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    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.

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    These gay dudes need to just admit they are gay. We know they are blowing up grinder every time they get together at a con.