Utah House passes transgender bathroom ban

Uhhh, once the door closes, HOW DO YOU KNOW IF A TRANS PERSON IS IN THERE?

Wouldn’t surprise me if they tried sending people with mirrors on sticks into johns, to save the children of course.

A long time ago I was asked by a friend my opinion of transgender people using their restroom that corresponds to their true gender (the one that does not correspond to their birth sex). My answer was this:

I don’t give a fuck who you are, I don’t wanna shit next to you. All bathrooms should be individual, floor to ceiling walls, so I can shit in peace.

The real ban should be on group shitting.

I was going to go through YEARS of expensive and intense therapy JUST so I could go into the girl's bathroom and RAPE people but I've been FOILED by this new law!

If it looks like a man, sounds like a man, and pees like a man, it does not belong in the women's restroom! Trans men look like men, sound like men, and sometimes even pee like men and this bill will force them to pee in women's restrooms! If you want to keep bearded people out of the women's restroom, you should have voted against this bill.

In every state that passes a bathroom ban I think we should just piss on Republican lawmakers cars instead.

We gotta go somewhere, fuckers.

Everyone involved in passing this law should be barred from working in government. We're facing an existential crisis from climate change, an ongoing gun violence crisis, mounting wealth inequality, rising right wing extremism that's already reached coup levels, and more, and this is what they're spending time on?

Three Republicans joined all Democrats in voting against it.

At least three republicans have some tattered remains of a soul, maybe.

Let me take this time to remind all of you that Jury Nullification is an unavoidable part of our legal process. If you're on the jury, you can give any verdict you want. You don't have to show your work! So that means you can say "Not Guilty" for any old reason.

Now, this can be used for Evil, like a southern jury not convicting a white man for murdering a black man. But it can also be used for good! You can nullify laws that are unjust. If someone is being charged for marijuana crimes, for an unrelated example, you can just say Not Guilty. They can't do anything to you.

So go forth and nullify, friends, any and all unjust laws. Tell your friends.

House Bill 257 aims to prohibit individuals from using gender-designated facilities that differ from their sex assigned at birth in government buildings, correctional facilities and domestic violence shelters unless they have undergone a transition-related surgery and legally amended the sex on their birth certificate.

My first instinct is to tear apart the logic of this, because this wildly doesn't even adress the lived reality of many trans people. I pass as a cis woman and I can't remember the last time I was misgendered, but I also am not getting surgery. Unless they start doing genital checks at the door, I don't see how this would even affect me? Now I know I'm privileged for that, I'm just calling attention to an arbitrary metric that SURGEY makes using my bathroom acceptable, but it's the only metric cis bigots can even comprehend.

But I know logic isn't the point, hatred is the point. Congrats Utah. You put meaningless discrimination on the books. Hate you too buddy.

The thing that scares me about these laws being passed is that they serve to embolden those who want to hurt us. MAGA uses this as a hate feedback loop. They are winning. Any anti-LGBT bill that passes is a W for them and a step closer to the edge of society for us. It’s not going to stop.

Focusing on the real issues, yes indeed. Uh-huh.

So, I guess, instead of his and hers, they just make a bunch of individual rooms? No gender bathrooms, just like you have at home. I mean, that would solve all the problems right there.

As always, the Republicans focused on the important stuff.

Oh I just read an article about a pastor getting into trouble for helping the homeless. Now I get to read an article about the Mormo--sorry Utah government using it's power to attack the LGBT for existing. This is more aligned with my preconceived notions about Christianity.

Well, all 6 transgendered people in Utah gets fucked.

Congrats you fucking backwards ass state for spending so many resources ensuring you punish a handful of people and leaving school children, vets, homeless, and other people to die.

Oh good. SLC is full of homeless folks struggling to survive, I’m glad our government is doing the important work to make sure bathrooms are safe.

while existing ones must be studied to assess “the feasibility of retrofitting or remodeling” facilities to improve privacy.

Well that's a nice silver lining...

The Supreme Court told Indiana they weren't going to hear such bullshit.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-snubs-fight-over-transgender-student-bathroom-access-2024-01-16/

I know that case was about schools, but it doesn't look like SCOTUS would care to hear this one either. In other words, if a lower court shoots this down, SCOTUS might say, "Not going to hear it. Lower court's ruling stands."

When they say taxpayer funded do they mean state buildings? Under federal law this is discrimination and couldn't apply to federal buildings.

Thank you for clogging up the Supreme Court with another reason to say no. Religion does not dictate everyone’s lives. Even worse that no religion actually has any word to say on the subject. Dumb shit Nazis will have to cry another day.

The first amendment is getting torn to shreds

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Utah’s Republican-controlled House voted Friday to pass a sweeping proposal to keep transgender people out of restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity in taxpayer-funded buildings, sending the measure to the state’s majority GOP Senate for consideration just three days after the start of the session.

The proposal would require new government buildings to include single-occupant restrooms and changing rooms while existing ones must be studied to assess “the feasibility of retrofitting or remodeling” facilities to improve privacy.

Utah Republican Rep. Kera Birkeland, the bill’s primary sponsor in the House, argued this week that the measure is necessary to increase privacy and protect women and children from “bad actors.”

“We still have deep concerns that the proposed legislation will place transgender Utahns at risk in public bathrooms,” Equality Utah, a statewide LGBTQ advocacy group, wrote Friday in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Four states — Kansas, Montana, North Dakota and Tennessee — have similar laws on the books, which LGBTQ rights groups have argued broadly allow discrimination against transgender people.

In a statement following Friday’s vote, Utah Democratic Party Chair Diane Lewis called the passage of House Bill 257 “a shameful, discriminatory attack on a community that is already extremely marginalized and vulnerable.”

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will governor cox remain consistent and veto this one too?

In the years that have passed since bathroom bills started surfacing, what has the DNC done to counteract and protect the rights of trans individuals?

Isn't this common sense? I mean, I have an 8 year old daughter, I don't want her in a restroom with some MAN who identifies as a woman. That's just ridiculous.