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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 26 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't expect any logic from regressives. What they want is not for trans people to use a specific bathroom. They want all trans people dead.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

having talked to some, they seem to want trans people detransitioned. Which is somehow more disgusting.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

So that's slightly better than wanting them dead I guess

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 42 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

They dont care what bathroom a person uses. It's not about the restroom ... it's about legal harassment.

Also ... what the fuck are people doing to get gender checked and arrested? There is no law about obeying the gender sign (at least not in my state or any state I have been in). Is walking into the wrong bathroom a crime or something?

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The bar owner harassed them personally. They charged them with trespassing and public intoxication, despite the fact they consumed no alcohol and were not breathalyzed.

Fuck these corrupt police, and fuck that bar owner.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully when MAGA falls out of fashion in 3.5 years there is still enough time for lawsuits and punishment.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

good luck with that one.

[–] pack_of_racoons@sh.itjust.works 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It has increasing been made a crime in various states to various degrees. See the woman who was arrested in the Florida statehouse and the college bathroom ban in Ohio.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago

Dystopian. That's fucked.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 30 points 17 hours ago

Republican laws working as Republicans intend.

Cruelty and oppression was always the point.

[–] xeekei@lemmy.zip 20 points 17 hours ago

We all knew this would happen.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure that recent UK Supreme Court case ended up making it illegal for trans men to use any public restroom. My understanding is that it forces trans women to use the men’s but has a carve out saying that trans men can’t use the women’s.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Can you provide a source? I'm curious to read more.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)
[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 230 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Once again, the point is to harass trans people out of public life altogether.

This isn’t about logic or fear, it’s hate and domineering. They’re nazis. No excuses.

[–] BedbugCutlefish@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Yeah. This kinda stuff might help sway some people but for the fascists drafting these bills, this is not a contradiction. The bathroom they want trans people to use is none. They want trans people to not exist.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think bathrooms are such a common issue with bigotry because shitting is a vulnerable state where in nature makes us vulnerable to tooth and claw type predators. Therefore it's a psychological shortcut to appeal to danger and panic.

Forgive me for making an evolutionary psych argument, but I feel comfortable that I'm not overreaching.

[–] tamman2000@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I heard it's why dogs often stare at you while they poop. They're like "You got my back, right?"

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

So do cats stare me when im pooping

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 53 points 23 hours ago (13 children)

This is dumb as f.

Just make all male bathrooms gender neutral. Bam crisis averted.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's not dumb. It's exactly what they want: to remove trans people from public spaces entirely.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 2 hours ago

I would consider arbitrary rules that are intentionally impossible to follow based on hate is very very dumb.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

i once took a shit in a unisex bathroom in a park in portland…
oddly enough, it was exactly like taking a shit in any other bathroom…

[–] LemmyIsReddit2Point0@lemmy.world 29 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Changing only men's bathrooms is just asking for backlash. Just make every toilet an individual unisex half bathroom with floor to ceiling walls and doors. A toilet, a sink, and a mirror. No more silent mode shits, no more pee shyness. If raising the national minimum wage only made products go up by a few cents some bathroom construction loans will barely do the same. I'll pay an extra 10 cents for my burrito... Oh that's right they already have individual bathrooms. Airports, malls, amusement parks, stadiums, music venues? ¯\(ツ)/¯ get gud

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

At work they put in a bunch of these during a renovation a few years ago. Only problem is we hit hard times and didn't renovate more bathrooms so these are far away. I make the trek over to them when I need to poop though. So much nicer than the men's room.

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[–] vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 67 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I know this is the least bad part of the story, but it stuck out anyway:

After a lengthy drive to the bar, Strobel said he stepped inside to use the men’s room. However, there were no stalls—only urinals, rendering it inaccessible to him as a trans man.

Precisely where are men supposed to shit in this establishment?

[–] LiveLoveLaff@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

Real men dont wipe their booty 🕳️, so they just #2 in the garbage can

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 12 points 20 hours ago

On the manager's desk would be ideal if you can get away with it

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

That's what sinks are for

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 17 points 22 hours ago

They really need to get bathrooms out of their gross heads.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 48 points 1 day ago

They're obsessed with trans women.

That trans men also exist breaks them.

This would never have happened had a trans woman entered the men's.

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