Idaho lawmakers passed a sweeping bathroom bill Friday that makes it a crime for transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender identity.

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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    17 hours ago

    Meh the golden excuse still works…

    But none of the others apply as broadly to private businesses as the Idaho bill, which covers any “place of public accommodation,” meaning any business or facility that serves the public. The legislation includes nine exceptions for situations like performing janitorial work, responding to emergencies, helping children or cases when someone has “dire need” of a restroom.

    As long as you say “I really gotta poop” you can go into any bathroom you want.

    • SwifferWetjet@thelemmy.club
      11·
      17 hours ago

      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.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        17 hours ago

        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”.