“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”

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[–] 231 points 1 week ago (1 child)

That was the point, they wanted a loss loss situation for trans people.

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  • [–] 139 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Almost as though the goal was to criminalize trans people for existing.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    That's crazy, you irrational accusatory liberals will never have any credibility as long as you keep accusing your enemies of doing bad things and having evil motivations based entirely on the things they do and reasons they give internally for doing them. If you cant assume good faith of Heinrich 'skeletor' schlafly-morgoth and his industrial sea otter rape program maybe you just don't have a place in civilized debate.

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    Love it but I prefer “You best respect my trans homies, before I change your pronouns into was and were”

    I know those ain’t pronouns but they can’t read so fuck it

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    [–] 94 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Okay, this is exactly the kind of malicious compliance that I can get behind. Fucking legends.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It's funny because it's barely even malicious compliance, it's just following the law 😭😭

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    yes, that's what malicious compliance is

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  • [–] 88 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

    Assholes don't care about bathrooms or they would simply make unisex ones with private stalls, open areas sinks, and complete view to the outside hallway. The safest and most reasonable option, but no here we are getting cops involved because people love being cruel.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    We have that at the PDX airport!

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    [–] 86 points 1 week ago (1 child)
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    Were they bothering anyone else using that restroom? I doubt it. Maybe the ones who watch everyone coming and going into such facilities should be investigated. Mind your own business, everyone has to relieve themselves. People are ridiculous.

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  • [–] 90 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    As a dude with long hair, I walked into the stall and then heard the dude that I passed asking the service staff about me. He obviously did not see my beard. People really are ridiculous.

    I am very much in favor of unisex toilets plus separated urinals. But we all know that you can't argue with people who create such laws specifically to make the lives of others miserable.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Start calling the cops for every person that uses the bathroom. After all, we can't be sure about their biological sex.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago

    Seems logical to show the stupidity, but it could also backfire. You know how once cops get called to a scene, they have to find something wrong or someone to arrest. And that could easily be you since you called them. When people in legit danger have called the police and ended up getting shot, I'd say nope, leave them out of it.

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    [–] 73 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    Why is there such a hang up with where people pee or shit? Not to diminish trans struggles, but this should be a non-issue for law makers, not a state-by-state referendum on where a minority of people use the can.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    "This tiny group of people are responsible for all the terrible things in your life. I will punish them for you."

    It works for immigrants, too. Manufactured outrage is a useful tool for amassing political power.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago*

    It's previously been used against women, Jews, Muslims, gay people, gypsies, communists, any number of groups. Give the people a group to hate so they don't start side-eying the small minority who have everything while the rest of us work and starve.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    No real attempt to answer your question yet, so I'll do my best:

    An unknowable percentage of these people believe that people using the wrong restroom is a gateway to sexual assault.

    An unknowable percentage of these people don't believe that, but believe that it's effective propaganda to assert it.

    Combined, you more or less get MAGA.

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    [–] 62 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    THIS is a fucking powerful protest, good work fellas. <3

    Fuck all the transphobes. It's such bullshit and tiring. And I'm a cis white dude, so I don't have to put up with this shit myself, and it's still tiring just to hear about it for decades and decades and decades. (Putting up with it is much worse is what I'm saying.....)

    Mad respect to those that stood up (or.... sat down, tee hee hee) in protest. These guys are in the perfect position to make this statement and point out how ridiculous it all is.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Agreed. Pretty clever protest that reveals this was never about "banning the wrong gendered-person from using their preferred bathroom." It was always "ban the wrong-gendered person", and the corpo-protecting pigs played right into it.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago*

    As much as I get a little tired of men claiming to be victims of prejudice, though, I do have to admit that this seems to be one of the valid areas (among others). Transphobes are clearly not wanting transwomen in women's spaces, but then they also don't want transmen there. You can't have it both ways, at a minimum.

    But I find my brain trying to be sympathetic (to the transphobes' fear of 'men' in women's spaces, be that transmen or transwomen, they seem to think all of them are "men") - and I have to say to that part of my brain (that has had decades of transphobia propaganda that I disagree with, but it still gets in the brain - in our culture) "What? No, fuck off. Humans with human rights. Everyone needs to pee. Good grief, just.... can we make bathroom stall doors actually private and unisex all the bathrooms? Because who gives a fuck, people need to pee in peace, LET THEM PEE IN PEACE"........

    It's very frustrating living in this culture.

    (I'd still argue, btw, that women face FAR more problems with misogyny than men do with misandry - but on the other hand, all misogyny and misandry is wrong, so it's hard to have nuanced debate sometimes)

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  • [–] 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Is it illegal to use an opposite gendered restroom if I’m not trans?

    Like if I’m a dude and look clearly like a dude and I walk into the women’s restroom is that illegal? What if it’s an emergency and then men’s room is full??

    This whole thing is so stupid.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago

    An extreme faux pas, for sure; but acceptable with the right excuses, respect, and announcement.

    Meanwhile making women who type ":3" 30 times a day go to the mens room when no one would bat an eye otherwise is just... Insanely unproductive.

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    [–] 38 points 1 week ago

    Brave dudes! Good shit

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  • [–] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The people who make these laws completely forget that trans men exist.

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    [–] 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I went into a bathroom, and there was either a trans or CD person presenting as female using the urinal. It threw me off, and I thought I went into the wrong bathroom for a sec. Took me a second for my brain to realize, wait, that's a urinal, so I'm definitely in the right place. Because I'm not a piece of shit, I laughed off the awkwardness of seeing a female using a men's urinal and went about my day, but these conservatives who get all mad about trans women using the women's room will 100% be just as outraged when they are in the men's room and see one at a urinal.

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    [–] 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Trying to find and point out logical gotchas to this hatred are a fools errand; the conservatives don’t care. Their base lacks empathy, so good luck appealing to any sense of decency that they [do not] have.

    There needs not be any sort of train-of-thought, other than “Fuck the [derogatory words]”. They use words like “science”, “biology”, and “safety” to cloak their hatred in the appearance of law and order. It’s all a game for them, designed to erase us.

    They will absolutely come for the rest of the LGBTQ+ community once we are gone. Obergefell will be next. And unless the establishment democrats grow a spine, or are replaced by progressives that will stand up for us, the steamrolling will continue.

    That said, protests like these need to happen, and I commend those brave dudes.

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    [–] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    First it was the blacks, then more and more people had black friends.

    Then it was gays, but more and more families had out gay people.

    Now it's trans people, but this is a passing thing.

    Who will these weirdos go after next?

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