Sad and horrible

(April 27, 2016 at 6:24 pm)Mathilda Wrote: This Alabama City Will Now Put Transgender People In Jail For Peeing At Target

Quote:On Tuesday night, the City Council of Oxford, Alabama unanimously approved a new ordinance that will punish individuals for using restrooms that do not match their biological sex as stated on their birth certificate. The policy is a direct response to Target indicating that trans people are welcome and will be respected in their stores.

Quote:Anywhere within the city’s police jurisdiction, it is now a criminal offense for transgender people to use restrooms that match their gender identity unless they have undergone surgery and successfully changed the gender marker on their birth certificate.

Each individual violation will result in a $500 fine or up to six months in jail. CNN reported this week that “most people urinate four to seven times during a day.”

The ordinance is actually more expansive than North Carolina’s HB2, which only applies to government buildings and public schools and universities.

Quote:In a prepared statement after the ordinance’s passage, Council President Steven Waits said that the council passed it “not out of concerns for the 0.3 percent of the population who identify as transgender,” but “to protect our women and children,” according to the Anniston Star.

The Jerry Springer Show: coming to a Southern city near you.

(April 27, 2016 at 10:47 am)Drich Wrote: Soo. in your opinion what is different between what I have been saying since the OP and what was said here?

Literally the whole thing. You (not at all surprisingly) missed the entirety of what that person said. That poster points out just how unnecessary but telling these laws are. You clearly missed the point. The laws don't fix anything. The very same threat existed before the laws, and will exist after they are challenged and found to be unconstitutional.

We teach our boys to go out and get sex, we congratulate each other on 'scoring.' We routinely talk about women as the sum total of their body parts. We further this idea in society that rape is just a thing men will do if given the opportunity, and so we must make sure women know that they are responsible for not tempting us men into showing our true nature. Transgender people using the fucking bathroom isn't the issue. They were doing it before you decided to become intentionally ignorant on the subject, they'll continue to do it. You just want to use them as a scapegoat for your glorification and intentional continuance of rape culture.

Man, fuck Alabama

Yeah..fuck Alabama

Why was it on there in the first place? The rest areas on their highways have port-a-potties.

Cool spaceship replicas too, but fucking port-a-potties!

(April 27, 2016 at 10:33 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Why was it on there in the first place? The rest areas on their highways have port-a-potties.

Cool spaceship replicas too, but fucking port-a-potties!

Ah. I wasn't aware of that.

Definitely not visiting then.

(April 27, 2016 at 6:24 pm)Mathilda Wrote: This Alabama City Will Now Put Transgender People In Jail For Peeing At Target

Quote:On Tuesday night, the City Council of Oxford, Alabama unanimously approved a new ordinance that will punish individuals for using restrooms that do not match their biological sex as stated on their birth certificate. The policy is a direct response to Target indicating that trans people are welcome and will be respected in their stores.

Quote:Anywhere within the city’s police jurisdiction, it is now a criminal offense for transgender people to use restrooms that match their gender identity unless they have undergone surgery and successfully changed the gender marker on their birth certificate.

Each individual violation will result in a $500 fine or up to six months in jail. CNN reported this week that “most people urinate four to seven times during a day.”

The ordinance is actually more expansive than North Carolina’s HB2, which only applies to government buildings and public schools and universities.

Quote:In a prepared statement after the ordinance’s passage, Council President Steven Waits said that the council passed it “not out of concerns for the 0.3 percent of the population who identify as transgender,” but “to protect our women and children,” according to the Anniston Star.

Complete and utter moronic garbage. How can such a stupid decision be reached?

How do they ever imagine this will be enforced? Have these pissweasels stopped to think for a minute about that? They never noticed trans people using bathrooms before, what makes them think they will now? What is the procedure? "He/she doesn't look legit, I'm gonna pull down their pants and check"? Are they themselves willing to submit to "nob out" procedures if someone calls them out?

(April 28, 2016 at 1:20 am)robvalue Wrote:

(April 27, 2016 at 6:24 pm)Mathilda Wrote: This Alabama City Will Now Put Transgender People In Jail For Peeing At Target

Complete and utter moronic garbage. How can such a stupid decision be reached?

How do they ever imagine this will be enforced? Have these pissweasels stopped to think for a minute about that? They never noticed trans people using bathrooms before, what makes them think they will now? What is the procedure? "He/she doesn't look legit, I'm gonna pull down their pants and check"? Are they themselves willing to submit to "nob out" procedures if someone calls them out?

Pissweasels... I like that. Imma steal it if you don't mind.

If I lived in that area - and I wouldn't, I already lived in Alabama for too long in my distant past - where was I... Oh yeah, if I lived in that area I'd make sure to call out any of the knobheads that passed this turd of a law I saw using whatever bathroom they thought proper.

I'm surprised you good southern Republicans aren't enraged by these gubmint folks tellin' you who you can and cannot let use your pisser. Why, that's un-Murrican. Oh wait, that's right, you have the same prejudice so it's all good, yes?

Steal away

This law could lead to a whole new problem of genital grabbing by people who are suspicious of others. A load of bigots all pulling each other's junk out.