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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew bill: Deputized Texas ‘bathroom cops’ risk felony if they allow trans to use bathroom
http://lexiecannes.com/2015/02/24/new-bill-deputized-texas-bathroom-cops-risk-felony-if-they-allow-trans-to-use-bathroom/If youre transgender and caught in the wrong bathroom, itll only be a misdemeanor up to 1 year in jail and maximum $4,000 fine.
According to a report in Towleroad, it was Republican state House Rep. Debbie Riddle who introduced the bill which says the gender of an individual is the gender established at the individuals birth or the gender established by the individuals chromosomes.
This is another in a string of ridiculous bathroom bills, each with a particular twist in this case, the jailing of individuals who find themselves newly deputized as bathroom cops but unwilling to perform that duty.
"Bathroom cops"?!
randys1
(16,286 posts)trans people.
If they do something we dont approve of we should be able to beat them (is their thinking)
I mean arent they making laws in some states that says you CAN discriminate against them?
Wouldn't a building manager have to PHYSICALLY stop you from using the bathroom?
All homophobia is violent and none of us should tolerate an ounce of it.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)The bathroom cop stands by the door and requires you to submit to a patdown to find out whether or not you have the "correct" equipment? "Sorry, ma'am, I can't let you in until I check you for possible guy parts. Just doin' my job..."
Swallowing cameras to do gynecological exams. Cancer is a fungus that can be cured with baking soda. And now this.
I think I'd like to move to another planet where there are no Republicans.
The facepalm just isn't adequate any more.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)It is the Red Planet, after all.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)BATHROOM COPS?
Is there no end to the idiotic phobias?
Maybe Debbie should be the first to be checked out by a bathroom cop.
Rex
(65,616 posts)State law.
You know we are only minutes away from the idiocracy tipping point.
Anyone will be subjected to either a look see, and a good old fashioned feel up.
Brawndo, here we come.
unblock
(52,317 posts)the bathroom cops have to either demand a birth certificate or administer a dna test.
Rex
(65,616 posts)After being verified, maybe stamp our butts or something so we just have to flash a little skin.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)A GOP jobs bill.
Rex
(65,616 posts)We got to drop trou so they can see my junk and verify I am in the correct bathroom?
BRAWDNO! HAS THEM FUCKING ELECTROLYTES! YES SIR!
Any fucking day now...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)They may already be working on a piece that can be tacked on at the beginning stating that fact.
Rex
(65,616 posts)It seems Texas wants to race Florida and Arizona to see who can get there first.
woodsprite
(11,924 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)even dress herself in the morning??? Palin looks like a Rhodes scholar next to this creature and Palin can be outsmarted by most lower plant life.
onyourleft
(726 posts)...even possible? I thought they had cornered that market until I read about the swallowing a camera guy.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)"Please submit your sample and in a few months we'll let you know if you're approved to pee in this facility. Thank you for understanding."
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Response to KamaAina (Original post)
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HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)Are we suffering an epidemic of trans people sneaking into the "wrong" bathrooms?
How have I managed to escape this scourge unscathed?!?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)in the "brain"boxes of these cretins.
I don't even have words for just how completely fucked up these people are.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Debbie Riddle is a notoriously absurd state representative. She coined the term 'terror babies' and opposed a bill allowing breastfeeding in public due to its immodesty and further, claimed undocumented workers in Texas were the cause of its budget shortfall at the turn of the 21st century.
In 2003, she said, "Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education, free medical care, free whatever? It comes from Moscow, from Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell. And it's cleverly disguised as having a tender heart. It's not a tender heart. It's ripping the heart out of this country."
She's unbalanced and a borderline racist.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)How are they going to enforce it?
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)is the bonehead woman in Texas that thinks this is a great idea. What is awful is everyone in the line having to show their junk.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)demand that you show your shit, or feel you up to make sure you aren't lying.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)indicates I'm trans like a tshirt that says "trans woman"?
I'm willing to go to bat and take this to the supreme court for the cause...
I've had facial surgery, been on hormones for a decade, breast implants etc I used to work a good middle class job until Scott Walker.... so I'd have to fly down to Texas or another such state...
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)n/t
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Sissyk
(12,665 posts)WTF??
How can anyone even know who goes in what bathroom? She has a hate and fear of trans people so easy to see.