The legislation takes aim directly at trans individuals using the restroom or locker rooms, threatening those who “knowingly” and “willfully” enter facilities designated for the “opposite biological sex” with prison time. A first offense would count as a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. Those caught using the bathroom in repeated offenses, however, could be convicted as felons and face up to five years in prison.

It'll be interesting to see how this aligns with the Full Faith and Credit clause for someone who updates their birth certificate from another state that allows for that then uses the bathroom that aligns with said certificate.

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[+] 215 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 175 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    You are loved. You are fine the way you are. The world has a place for you. You are not alone.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I know Idaho is bleak right now but there are many areas much more accepting than Idaho.

    It’s hard but I strongly encourage moving somewhere more blue. As someone that lives in a blue stronghold the cults is much more accepting than these places.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Boise isn’t down for the count yet. Last year when the state started coming after Pride flags on government property the Mayor and City Council adopted the Pride flag as our city flag. The state legislature has been trying to figure out how to override that ever since. We ran the Hammerskins out of town when they tried to have a music festival, we’ve put MAGAt business owners out of business, we’ve got a lot of teachers and librarians operating malicious compliance to the anti-woke mandates, and I’ve seen more than a few bigots get their teeth knocked out and heads stomped. They might have taken over our state but they haven’t taken over our city.

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    [–] 76 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    What the actual fucking fuck? Is it better to piss in the streets? Shit their pants on a crowded bus?

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  • [–] 113 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Ah, those will be felonies too. The point is to make it illegal to exist if you're trans. And the point of that is cruelty, an insatiable need that Republicans have.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    In future MAGAmeriKKKa, we will be a nation of laws, and we will have many more laws than today, and they will be punished harshly. Those who violate the law will be incarcerated in one of the detainment centers being constructed at this moment. Then they will be leased out to corporations as Federal 13th Amendment work Slaves.

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    [–] 68 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Our country sent a cruise missile into a school full of children last week.

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  • [–] 61 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Are you a republican woman with broad shoulders, a big nose, or a square jaw. Congrats, the Karens are now going to ask the cops to look at your junk.

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    [–] 60 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    We need seperate bathrooms for MAGA, I don't feel comfortable sharing a bathroom with them as they are peeping toms and pedophile supporters.

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    [–] 55 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    We allow our pet dogs to piss anywhere. Yet if you can’t find a “public” bathroom, or find some business to buy a pack of gum for 25c, in order to be a customer to use their restroom, and you piss in an alley around the corner, you face charges like indecent exposure. All because you had to do some very basic natural function but society had placed obstacles and then labels you a criminal. Yet somehow everyone is so goddamn concerned over which bathroom you use.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    The U.S. constitution is so old that the writers didn't see it being a problem (presumably) to not have an explicit right to bodily autonomy.

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  • [–] 50 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    I cant wait for all the CIS conservatives who inevitably get arrested/genital inspected due to this law, and the inevitable crying of "It wasnt supposed to affect me, I feel so humiliated and attacked over this egregious invasion of my body" with zero self awareness or irony.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm scared of laws like this because I'm a cis woman and I have natural facial hair

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    [–] 50 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    So this is obviously stupid. I use the other gender bathroom when one bathroom is in use and I really have to go. Is that really something that should cause jail time? Really?

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  • [–] 56 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Clearly, this is the most important issue impacting your typical working American family today.

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    [–] 49 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I use a unisex bathroom in Austin that had urinals and stalls. I felt like such a badass when I kept my composition while making a peepee while three women passed behind me going in and out of the bathroom.

    And when I went to wash my hands, no one looked at each other or said hi or anything. The way it should be in a bathroom. Quit talking to me while I'm trying to not pee on the floor, guys!

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The coolest bathroom experience I have ever had was when I attended my sister's graduation ceremony from university.

    There was a white tie dinner party after the ceremony, and every one was dressed up, it was a super happy and friendly atmosphere, full of beautiful men and women.

    Anyway, I had to go to the toilet, so I found the men's room and opened the door...

    ...and immediately got confused...

    ...the first thing I saw was a beautiful woman in a crowd of other beautiful men and women!

    The party kept going!

    And the most remarkable thing was that the wall between the women's and men's rooms wasn't there.

    Instead there was a really cool central sink and booths on either side.

    It was brilliant!

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago

    Only pedophiles would think about children's dicks as much as Republicans do.

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  • [–] 36 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Right wingers are all such goddamn freaks I swear.

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    [–] 35 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Is this a girl toilet or a guy toilet?

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    [–] 34 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Now what is going to happen when a post-op trans man, who fully looks like a man, complies with this law by going into a women's bathroom?

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    [–] 31 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Oooh! Oooh! I remember this one!

    Next, businesses will have to create a separate restroom that says "TRANS ONLY" so things can be "separate but equal"...

    ಠ_ಠ

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    [–] 30 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    Do they include a definition of “biological sex”? And of how that’s going to be determined?

    Of course not. They have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. They just want to hurt people

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    [–] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Why are elderly men so obsessed with what goes on in women's restrooms? It's always about trans women and almost never about trans men (not that this is the main problem).

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    [–] 26 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Jaysus christo this is fucking weird and insane. And there is such an obvious, easy answer for the whole "problem" (of course there is no actual problem, this is insane fear mongering and hatred, but still..)

    America: GIVE PEOPLE (ALL PEOPLE) PRIVACY IN PUBLIC BATHROOMS. Stop using "stalls" with gaps so large there may as well not be any dividers. Just look at a European bathroom where the toilets are in their own small rooms with doors that run from floor to ceiling. Seriously, you could remove the gender separation entirely and it wouldn't affect anything.

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    [–] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    A felony? LOL

    I wonder if they are smart enough to put exceptions in for children where the father or mother may possibly take the child into the 'wrong' bathroom.

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    [–] 25 points 6 months ago

    It won't be interesting to see. People caught up in this will get their lives ruined. Even if they get acquitted, they'll have lost everything.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Gendered bathrooms should be banned. Things being gender-exclusive should generally be illegal (regarded as bigotry/hate).

    JUST PUT REAL WALLS INSTEAD OF STALLS

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    [–] 22 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Where can I place bets on when a place has a broken men's or women's toilet and someone gets arrested for using the only functioning option.

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    [–] 18 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Wonder how long until someone tries to install AI gender detectors in restrooms.

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    [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    I mean Republicans can't govern. So if they weren't persecuting a minority to appease their bigot base, what would they be doing?

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Wasn't there an executive order that said all people must use women's bathrooms?

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    [–] 17 points 6 months ago

    My home state made the news again! What do we have today? Another way for me to be a felon by existing where I grew up? Neat I love that! Keeping it classy Idaho, as always.

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    I live in Idaho, and the comments here are as ignorant as ever.

    If you are trans/different/nonconservative in any way, let me say this very, very clearly:

    THEY WANT YOU DEAD.

    Not in prison, not a slave, not a member of society at all.

    They want you DEAD.

    Stop pussyfooting around this. Passing laws like this is merely a step towards their true goals. I am not being melodramatic, I cannot ring the warning bell hard enough after the conversations I have had with conservatives here. They are doing everything they can to slow-burn us into massacring our own people and even WANTING to think the best of these bad-faith psychos is bad FOR US ALL including THEM. They are essentially children that have been taught that having any moral code is weakness and that lying and cheating is strength. They do NOT have positive intentions and they ARE thinking about the long game. You will not convince them of anything using just words and arguments, not unless you find a way to put a LOT of money in their pockets, and you would have to first convince them that Trump didn't already do exactly that.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Man, I did not know Idaho was so dominated by lunatics.

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    [–] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Meanwhile, Texas is busy sentencing people of supporting terrorism because they are related to antifa. Being a pedophile with aspirations to crown himself a king, straight to the White House with the sledgehammer to knock it down.

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