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Utah House passes transgender bathroom ban
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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 new genital scanner tech proposed by silicon valley start up, shit-right, will allow public restrooms to determine who can and can't use the bathroom within a 99.9% degree of certainty according to company spokesperson. With the use of AI enabled 3d scanners and cloud based large data set machine learning you will never have to worry about the gender of a person in the stall next to you again. A short 30 minute 3d scan will be taken by trained technicians, uploaded to the secure off-site cloud computing server where shit-rights AI advisor will analyze and determine the gender of the bathroom user within a 5 minute window. Finally a safe and non-humiliating way to use the bathroom. In case anyone hasn't seen it adultSwim did something similar back in the day.