Im still frustrated at the lie and gaslighting that bathrooms were ever some strictly gendered space. Growing up, women going into the mens room happened a lot at sport events. Fathers would take their kids into the lady’s when the men’s didn’t have a changing table.
Most people want to do what they need to do an get out.
And if someone’s gonna assault you, the swing door with a stick figure with a dress aint gonna stop them.
We’re more likely to see more assaults with the bathroom ban in effect.
We’ll see it when trans folks are trying to follow the law, and then they will be screamed at for being “in the wrong bathroom” and then you’ll end up with people getting assaulted and/or demands to see their genitals. As the article astutely points out, you literally can’t win being trans in this scenario. All options result in people thinking you’re in the “wrong” bathroom. Doesn’t matter you followed the law, they’re going to hurt you anyway.
Not to mention, this will hurt cisgender people, too. Any cisgender people who don’t match western beauty standards will be under scrutiny. Straight ciswoman who happens to be pretty butch? She’s gonna get the shit kicked out of her for being in the “wrong” restroom. Then she’ll be falsely arrested until she can “prove” she’s a woman.
I can tell you, a man in a woman’s restroom checking everyone’s genitals to make sure the women are “safe” already screams that the restroom is unsafe because there is a man wanting to see every persons genitals in there for fucks sake.
The cruelty is the point.
I’m so sick of living in a country where people are so fucking hateful.
It’s astonishing to see the hatred getting so big that it starts affecting the very people who hate and they don’t even care. This law is just an excuse and a weapon to hurt people with governmental support.
There’s definitely gonna be some headlines about all the weird and creepy ways this will be enforced or controlled
Can’t wait for the first cis dad to be threatened with arrest for taking his daughter to the loo.
Umm what the actual fuck? Did Florida just lowkey ban all trans people from their state? How is this constitutional? How do you even say someone is trans when they have an updated birth certificate ffs? This is pure insanity.
This is literally insane. I’m baffled how things like this become enforceable laws. It’s almost hilariously flawed. I’m sure many people will be very uncomfortable with bearded men in the women’s room, and the many other awkward scenarios that could happen. It’s also downright dangerous for trans and even cisgender people
Honestly I didn’t think Florida would be so progressive. They’re forcing both men and women to share bathrooms with each other?
