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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

This has always been the point.

It has never been about which restroom trans people use, it was always been about being able to harass and vilify trans people.

The right doesn't want to just enforce gender binary, they want to erase anything and anyone that falls outside it.

[–] lambipapp@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

American freedom is about getting arrested when peeing in the wrong public bathroom.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Don't expect any logic from regressives. What they want is not for trans people to use a specific bathroom. They want all trans people dead.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

having talked to some, they seem to want trans people detransitioned. Which is somehow more disgusting.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thats only their current public agenda. Trans people not existing at all is their end goal though, and every step on that path they will keep going further until there are death camps

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

Trans death camps are not something I can envision in today's political climate, but if the west tilts irreversibly into fascism it's quite possible.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So that's slightly better than wanting them dead I guess

Its really worse actually.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's effectively the same, but a slower more painful death.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

At least it gives time to fight for their rights, once they're dead it's over

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They dont care what bathroom a person uses. It's not about the restroom ... it's about legal harassment.

Also ... what the fuck are people doing to get gender checked and arrested? There is no law about obeying the gender sign (at least not in my state or any state I have been in). Is walking into the wrong bathroom a crime or something?

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The bar owner harassed them personally. They charged them with trespassing and public intoxication, despite the fact they consumed no alcohol and were not breathalyzed.

Fuck these corrupt police, and fuck that bar owner.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hopefully when MAGA falls out of fashion in 3.5 years there is still enough time for lawsuits and punishment.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Fascism doesn't fall out of fashion

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

good luck with that one.

[–] pack_of_racoons@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has increasing been made a crime in various states to various degrees. See the woman who was arrested in the Florida statehouse and the college bathroom ban in Ohio.

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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 245 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Once again, the point is to harass trans people out of public life altogether.

This isn’t about logic or fear, it’s hate and domineering. They’re nazis. No excuses.

[–] BedbugCutlefish@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

Yeah. This kinda stuff might help sway some people but for the fascists drafting these bills, this is not a contradiction. The bathroom they want trans people to use is none. They want trans people to not exist.

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trans people are the 2025 jews.

[–] tamman2000@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The original Nazis came for the trans folks before the Jews.

It's fucking disgusting how similar it is and how few people see it

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

first it was intellectuals, but they fled, then its lgbtq+ then the jews at the final stage.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

And TERFs/alt right conservatives are working to cover up/deny this.

I saw someone say that the Nazis invented the transvestite passes. That Nazis invented being trans.

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True.

We talk often of the jews, but lgbt+ people, rom and Slavic people were also in the same troubles.

Talking about Trump and how much is in search of appreciation, I would love to show him what's books from the future will tell about him. The 00's American Hitler (well, until this point he will be probably prod), which all the people hates the most and which everybody will try to do not be associated.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

Republican laws working as Republicans intend.

Cruelty and oppression was always the point.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 59 points 2 days ago (16 children)

This is dumb as f.

Just make all male bathrooms gender neutral. Bam crisis averted.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i once took a shit in a unisex bathroom in a park in portland…
oddly enough, it was exactly like taking a shit in any other bathroom…

[–] LemmyIsReddit2Point0@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Changing only men's bathrooms is just asking for backlash. Just make every toilet an individual unisex half bathroom with floor to ceiling walls and doors. A toilet, a sink, and a mirror. No more silent mode shits, no more pee shyness. If raising the national minimum wage only made products go up by a few cents some bathroom construction loans will barely do the same. I'll pay an extra 10 cents for my burrito... Oh that's right they already have individual bathrooms. Airports, malls, amusement parks, stadiums, music venues? ¯\(ツ)/¯ get gud

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not dumb. It's exactly what they want: to remove trans people from public spaces entirely.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

I would consider arbitrary rules that are intentionally impossible to follow based on hate is very very dumb.

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[–] vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 99 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 74 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I know this is the least bad part of the story, but it stuck out anyway:

After a lengthy drive to the bar, Strobel said he stepped inside to use the men’s room. However, there were no stalls—only urinals, rendering it inaccessible to him as a trans man.

Precisely where are men supposed to shit in this establishment?

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

That's what sinks are for

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[–] xeekei@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We all knew this would happen.

[–] owl@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

None of this would happen if we just did it in public. Just saying. /s

[–] xeekei@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, no, not falling for this one again. I just got off the list.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're obsessed with trans women.

That trans men also exist breaks them.

This would never have happened had a trans woman entered the men's.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't be surprised if this idiot of a bar owner doesn't even realize trans men exist and assumed this dude was amab and female identifying or something.

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