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Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:01 PM Mar 2013

Arizona considering a transgender potty law

MSNBC did a short piece on a totally insane law being considered in Arizona. It would state that you must use the public bathroom that's consistent with your gender on your birth certificate. It would be a misdemeanor to break this law, punishable by fine or imprisonment for six months.

Jeezus fucking Christ. Who would be insane enough to think up something like this?

Every time you think the hopelessly demented can't get any crazier, they do.

And no, this is not a piece from The Onion.

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upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. There goes all the women who pee in the men's room at sports events
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:08 PM
Mar 2013

I guess they will just have to hold their beer a little longer or go to the bushes

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
4. Answer: Conservatives in Arizona are insane enough to think up something like this.
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 12:25 PM
Mar 2013

Here's a little DU satire I wrote about the nature, compassion, and intelligence of Arizona's state republican legislators:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=645807

Warpy

(111,251 posts)
6. Oh, FFS.
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:23 PM
Mar 2013

In the hospital, the staff bathrooms are asexual. Hospital rooms are assigned according to the person's legal sex. A transitioning sex reassignment person usually gets a private room because until the surgery and the legal change, they're neither one nor the other.

I've walked into the Jane and found a drag queen here and there. Hey, you gotta go when you gotta go and unless they pee in the sink because there are no urinals, it's OK with me. I've never seen any of them do that, the tuck requires privacy to undo and readjust so they use stalls, it's just the principle of the thing.

It's better than having them risk assault next door in the John.

 

talkingmime

(2,173 posts)
7. Is that an amendment to a race-based potty law?
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:35 PM
Mar 2013

They're going to need a LOT of potties, and the port-a-potty business must be drooling over this sort of thing!

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
8. Arizona is devolving
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:40 PM
Mar 2013

let them succeed from the nation and fend for themselves if they don't want to progress and evolve let them live off the grid and go back to their "good old days "

dmr

(28,347 posts)
9. 'Papers-please' to prove yourself eligible to use the toilet?
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:57 PM
Mar 2013

You better hold it lest you go to jail!

Small government indeed.

More like insane and bigoted.

vankuria

(904 posts)
10. Wonder how they'd enforce it??
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 02:07 PM
Mar 2013

Hire "potty marshall's" in every public bathroom? That outta go over well with the taxpayers! And what if a mom brings her young son into the ladies room, so she can assist him?

Just when you think it can't get any stupider...



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