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Related: About this forumTexas Lawmaker Wants To Throw Transgender People in Jail for Using Public Restrooms
A Texas state legislator has filed a bill that would make it a crime for transgender people to use public restrooms according to their gender identity.
The proposal from GOP Rep. Debbie Riddle (R) would make it a class-A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a maximum $4,000 fine for transgender people to use "a locker room, shower facility, or toilet facility designated for use by persons of a gender that is not the same gender as the individuals gender."
Riddle's HB 1748 would also make it a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in prison and a maximum $10,000 fine for a building manager to "repeatedly allow" a transgender person to use such a facility according to their gender identity.
Here's how the bill defines gender:
http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef01b8d0dbeacf970c-800wi
Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/02/texas-lawmaker-wants-to-make-it-a-crime-for-transgender-people-to-use-public-restrooms.html#.VOs5lEaY_vM.twitter
Cross-posted in the Texas Group.
randys1
(16,286 posts)They are trying to write into the law that if you are transgender you should be beaten, thrown in jail, treated like filth
where is my popcorn, let me know when the patriots show up and say no, cant do that..stop treating people you are uncomfortable around like 2nd class citizens
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,856 posts)how are the potty police going to know what someone's biological gender is when they're using a restroom? Are they going to be watching people go to the bathroom? It's not only bigoted, it's a ridiculous invasion of privacy. Everybody's. Every day I find at least one new reason to hate GOP legislators.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Was bullied when she used the mens room because she looked like a girl. When she transitioned and used the girls room, she was bullied for using that restroom
marym625
(17,997 posts)What is wrong with people?
Seriously, how fucked up must they be to attack like this? And they're doing it all over.
There are no words to explain how sick and disgusting this is
randys1
(16,286 posts)because after a day on DU I find myself walking into the grocery store TALKING to myself about how fucked up righty is, and one of these days one of them is gonna hear me and then it is gonna be on.
I cant take it anymore, in fact I think we should be ashamed that we take it anymore, dammit
TexasTowelie
(112,428 posts)snidely suggested that we do chromosomal testing on kids when they begin school and then brand results of the test on the children's forearms so they are marked for life. It's a shock that Rep. Riddle didn't think of that and include it in her bill.
marym625
(17,997 posts)I am still upset about the girl in Utah (I think it was Utah) that the entire world went after. I hope she is ok. I hope that she is finally being left alone.
Remember, Fox news was the only media outlet that refused to retract a lie about her. Every other publication either deleted the story, put a retraction up or both. But not fox.
Just a horror
chillfactor
(7,584 posts)another nut crawls out....good grief.....what another waste of a human body....
TexasTowelie
(112,428 posts)There are also sanctions against building owners.
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2015/02/debbie_riddle_restroom_law_based_on_xy_chromosomes.php
marym625
(17,997 posts)Seriously, this is so twisted!
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)sheltered. They really need to get a F'en life. I'm so fed up with bullshit like this. They just can't leave people the F alone and are so damn ignorant, stupid and backward.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Just as Jim Crow was the last ditch attempt to control, dehumanize, and abuse minorities in society, those bigots are flexing their ever diminishing power through the same types of laws.. that will ultimately fail and be their future embarrassment. These laws are born of desperation on their part in an war they are losing ground on.
These measures disgust me to my core.. but at the same time, I realize it for what it is.. the death throes of their cause to marginalize, criminalize, and dehumanize us.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)gladly get arrested for the cause of need be. This is not right.
I'll wear a shirt that says "transgender" on it or something. Take this crap to the supreme court.
LostOne4Ever
(9,290 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Not only is this bill horribly bigoted and almost impossible to enforce, it screws over inter-sexed individuals in the worst possible way.
Sooner or later some CAIS woman or de la Chapelle syndrome male is going to get caught up in this. Can't these idiots take a basic genetics class before coming up with this hatefilled shit?[/font]
TexasTowelie
(112,428 posts)They have to look up to see the bottom.