I desperately need to get out of this state
I don’t want to post the “Da Fuck ya doing over there”-meme again. But what the hell.
Any allies game to go to the mayor’s office and conduct a shit-in?
Can’t legally use a bathroom? Let’s go on the floor.
There should be a name for this. “The constituent letter” or “The Pelosi kiss” or maybe “The MAGA crayon.”
Some of us remember the coed bathroom featured on the hit 90s show Ally McBeal. It seemed like a progressive but not so far fetched idea at the time. So WTF are we doing still arguing about this 25 years later? These bathroom nazis need to get a grip.
Trans identity supersedes all law, or medical context, or any other bullshit justification for dehumanizing anyone experiencing any form of Gender Dysphoria.
You as a person reading this have value. Just by your very sentience you have worth. You are loved.
We will overcome this moment in our history eventually, we may not all live to see it happen but we will. I know that’s an atom of relief in a sea of pain. Don’t let this bullshit dim your shine.
I love each and every one of you.
Can someone explain what this headline was supposed to say? The grammar is… Confusing.
It has a typo, of should be on. $10,000 bounty on trans people’s heads.
is there an easy way for us to abuse this system to get ourselves paid a bunch of money?
Fucking Texas.
This can’t possibly be the United States of—oh shit…
Despite what the law might say, there’s no evidence whatsoever that letting trans people use their preferred bathroom causes any “injury or harm” to cis people. To the contrary, there is evidence that restricting their bathroom access is harmful to trans people.
Despite what the law might say, there’s no evidence whatsoever that letting trans people use their preferred bathroom causes any “injury or harm” to cis people.
Can confirm: Having shared many a bathroom with trans folks and I have managed to survive unharmed. Who would have thunk?
What, we’re supposed to let them use the restroom that matches their identity just because it’s the moral right thing to do, costs us nothing, and the alternative harms everyone!? Sounds like someone is WOKE!!!
harmful to trans people.
And there’s the true intent of the Republican legislators.
Also there is evidence that it is harmful to cis people. Especially cis women who might be queer or straight or gender nonconforming or not. These fuckwads always forget trans men exist and just harass women more with this shit. They don’t give a fuck off you’re trans or not, it’s about control. And their especially interested in controlling women.
It’s also directly tied to fascism. Eco points to Machismo in point 12 of Ur-Fascism. “[Fascists hold] both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.” Meaning it’s not just women, trans women, gay men, people outside of traditional 1940s gender roles, but it also includes straight, cis men who just don’t seem to be straight and cis enough.
A bounty on trans people? So I get paid by the state to catch 'em and turn 'em in so they can be issued their ‘up to $500 fine’? How cost ineffective.
Ah, it’s misinformation and done so poorly, in an attempt to dramatise, they used the wrong word.
So, the $10,000 is actually for lawsuits and can start there if anyone found guilty of the crime had also caused damages. That’s very normal for laws of people being somewhere they’ve been told not to be and damaging stuff. Like if I break the toilet seat I’m standing on while peering over the top of the cubicle to watch a girl pee.
It’s articles like this that do not help a cause at all.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/odessa-tx-just-put-10000-bounties
As far as I can see, the article doesn’t misrepresent this law. It says that anyone has standing to sue a trans person for using a gender-appropriate bathroom, and the damages of at least $10,000 would be awarded if the trans person lost the lawsuit. Normally, as I understand it, you wouldn’t have standing unless someone’s activity had probably harmed you, but by waiving this the door is open for the trans person’s use of a bathroom to be judged harmful in itself. So, a bounty on trans people.
This is in a similar legal realm as the abortion bounty. There are a lot of legal experts who claim that there is no standing, while the conservative judges have held that it is a harm against society at large. So any member of society has standing.
It’s a twisted and dangerous legal framework to establish. It’s already been used to attack the second amendment as well. It’s not good for any political side.
Are you willfully ignorant or do you not understand how Jim Crow laws work?
Step 1: Identify as cat
Step 2: Turn yourself in
Step 3: Claim 10,000 bucks
Step 4: No crime was committed, goto 1
While the bounty is set to a minimum of $10,000, there is no cap on how large the bounty can be.
FYI Texas has been marked as a “do not travel” state on Erin Reed’s trans risk map: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/final-pre-election-2024-anti-trans
I have a trans teenage cousin in Texas. We’re not close, but I worry. All I can really do is let him and his mom know I exist in a “safe” state and hope they reach out if they decide to leave.
I think that was inevitable unfortunately…
I’m in one of the worst states, I’m scared about where things are going …
I go through Oklahoma just to skip Texas when driving cross country. Oklahoma is preferable to Texas. Yeesh.
Pop Quiz:
Which bathroom should he use?
I’m gonna need to see his tits first. Duh.
The one with the toilet.
That’s OBVIOUSLY a Woman and should use my Daughter’s Bathroom!
As long as it’s not my stall, I don’t care
Pssshhhhh!!! Look at this bourgeoisie mother fucker over here, refusing to share their stall with others!
Selfish. Yes, that’s the word!
The common working man poops on the left half of the toilet, and a stranger from the streets poop on the right half! AND THEY BOTH HATE THE YANKEES!!!
Because fuck the Yankees. Can’t believe I have to cheer for the god damn Dodgers …
He can use mine
Whichever he want to use. Period.
Just like everyone else.
