Idaho lawmakers passed a sweeping bathroom ban Friday, approving legislation that would make it a crime for transgender people to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, even inside privately owned businesses.
If Republican Gov. Brad Little signs the bill, Idaho will have the strictest bathroom ban in the nation, subjecting people to time behind bars if they knowingly enter a bathroom, locker room or changing area that does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and sentenced to a year in jail for a first offense, or a felony with up to five years in prison for a second offense.
And who is checking? Seriously. Is there a guard at the door demanding entrants flash their genitals? And if they’ve already undergone surgery, what then?
This smells more like a don’t ask and don’t you ever fucking tell, or else, push.
The point is to make trans people scared, and most likely, give excuses to incarcerate trans people when they find them.
Logic does not play any part of these bills
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It’ll be volunteer checkers, we have no shortage of them here. They’ll use it to harass anyone who doesn’t meet their expectations, which also means that cisgender women who aren’t conventionally “attractive” and effeminate but cis gay men can be hounded as well. It’s all their favorite victims in one and they can avoid consequences for false reporting by pretending like they did so in good faith. Interestingly, the Idaho police lobbies spoke out against this legislation because even they could see that it’s so aggressive and so difficult to gather evidence they didn’t want to deal with it. Shocking, I know.
The police don’t want to deal with it because they know enforcement and prosecution is going to be a widely unpopular clusterfuck and they’re going to be left dealing with the brunt of it. The rhetoric loses its luster when they start going after well-liked community members and people that just had to pee.
Meh the golden excuse still works…
As long as you say “I really gotta poop” you can go into any bathroom you want.
Gotta tell you, as a man man, beard n all, I have used the women’s bathroom a few times in “I’m gonna literally piss myself” moments. The absolute most reaction I have gotten beyond an eyebrow raise was a laugh at my “sorry, emergency I promise I’ll sit!” when a woman and myself made eye contact. I live multiple hours from the capital and probably two from the closest “major” city that Joe Blow Nowhere would recognize.
I really do think the average American doesn’t give a shit as long as you’re doing your business and getting out. Maybe I’ve just had good luck.
It’s not about bathrooms…
It’s about the segregation.
If they see someone who looks trans, they’ll harass them regardless of what bathroom they go in.
You’re immediately giving the excuse. A person who was trans would have to do that Everytime they went into the bathroom they don’t identify with, but legally have to use.
The goal isn’t for ing them in either bathroom, it’s a blank check to harass and I timidate people not confirming to the 1940s gender constructs.
They’ll keep going and eventually be yelling at women for wearing pants because that’s “men’s clothing”.
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it truly smells like crap