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So According To DeSantis' New Bathroom Law This Man Has To Use The Women's Restroom? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2023 OP
HooHoo Inspectors from North Carolina opening up an office in Florida Bernardo de La Paz May 2023 #1
LOL! 2naSalit May 2023 #31
Yeah, back then (2016) and now too! . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2023 #32
South Park literally had an entire episode about this subject! Initech May 2023 #33
Okay, equality Smackdown2019 May 2023 #2
Dont get me wrong.. Smackdown2019 May 2023 #3
Or simply put Jerry2144 May 2023 #13
Ever been to Japan? BidenRocks May 2023 #22
Cant say i have.... maybe one day though Smackdown2019 May 2023 #23
Squat potties are interesting BidenRocks May 2023 #34
No shit. Staff bathrooms in hospitals are unisex Warpy May 2023 #43
My guess is that you're not particularly familiar with Equal Protection Clause jurisprudence. onenote May 2023 #36
Chaz Bono too, Cher's trans son BlueWaveNeverEnd May 2023 #4
Imagine Chaz entering the ladies' room with all the republican daughters. keithbvadu2 May 2023 #35
They also want this guy in a restroom with your sister, wife, & daughter. CaptainTruth May 2023 #5
GOP - Genital Obsessed Perverts CaptainTruth May 2023 #6
Excellent! 3catwoman3 May 2023 #11
Honestly, I don't think it's the Trans men they are worried about TexasBushwhacker May 2023 #7
They are worried about the pretty woman that Delmette2.0 May 2023 #20
That is true too TexasBushwhacker May 2023 #25
Exactly !! Delmette2.0 May 2023 #27
This Is Exactly RobinA May 2023 #38
Thank you for your excellent reply. Delmette2.0 May 2023 #39
who is going to check and inspect , eh? how does that fix freeways and other AllaN01Bear May 2023 #8
Republicans making stupid laws for problems that don't exist Warpy May 2023 #9
Most trans folks will continue to use the restroom that matches their appearance. DemocratSinceBirth May 2023 #10
No shit and most of us are sane enough not to care Warpy May 2023 #29
I see a lot of lawsuits when they misgender the wrong person. DemocratSinceBirth May 2023 #40
Their motive BOSSHOG May 2023 #17
It's manufactured outrage to keep base riled up. Moral panic. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2023 #18
It's what being a Republican politician is all about. GoodRaisin May 2023 #44
In France I was surprised to learn men/women use the same facilities. No problems except... Joinfortmill May 2023 #12
Some places around me put up a sign between the two restrooms Captain Zero May 2023 #15
4U2P Higherarky May 2023 #28
Mommy, Why is that man using the women's restroom? MagickMuffin May 2023 #14
As if Europe needs more to laugh at us about. Lady Freedom Returns May 2023 #16
yes, you know, "to protect women" Skittles May 2023 #19
But it serves its purpose chowmama May 2023 #21
Arent restrooms once called powder rooms? Smackdown2019 May 2023 #24
Keep the girls and women safe. keithbvadu2 May 2023 #26
Jokes on them! vercetti2021 May 2023 #30
Looks like Ron DeSantis wants to provoke fights. raging moderate May 2023 #37
Why? Am I missing something? Chakaconcarne May 2023 #41
Because he was born a woman. DemocratSinceBirth May 2023 #42

Smackdown2019

(1,192 posts)
2. Okay, equality
Thu May 18, 2023, 07:30 PM
May 2023

One could argue the other way and say separation of sexes is prohibited under the 14th Amendment for Equality Laws. So, the argument could be, all bathrooms be unisex; no separations of male or female......

Ponder that for a moment..........

Any person can argue that all bathrooms are entitled to be used by anyone, for Equality clause of the 14th amendment......

Smackdown2019

(1,192 posts)
3. Dont get me wrong..
Thu May 18, 2023, 07:31 PM
May 2023

I perfer for separations stay as is...but the GOP thugs could potentially cause a snafu in their own faces on this.......

Smackdown2019

(1,192 posts)
23. Cant say i have.... maybe one day though
Thu May 18, 2023, 09:01 PM
May 2023

What are the facilities over there like? Heard they are strange...

Warpy

(111,417 posts)
43. No shit. Staff bathrooms in hospitals are unisex
Fri May 19, 2023, 02:36 PM
May 2023

while visitor facilities are divided. It always struck me as a little weird, especially since both featured toilets and sinks, no urinals.

The only plae I ever saw a sex divided bathroom useful for women was in old department stores that had pull down changing tables in the ladies'. No area to sit and nurse, but at least a place to change a diaper..

And that, I imagine, was the main reason for separating the bathrooms, men getting squicked out by infant care.

keithbvadu2

(37,011 posts)
35. Imagine Chaz entering the ladies' room with all the republican daughters.
Thu May 18, 2023, 10:07 PM
May 2023

Would the republicans accept it?

TexasBushwhacker

(20,232 posts)
7. Honestly, I don't think it's the Trans men they are worried about
Thu May 18, 2023, 07:51 PM
May 2023

It's the Trans women going to the women's restroom. One of these women is trans and this "law" says she should use the men's restroom. The other is cis.




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RobinA

(9,903 posts)
38. This Is Exactly
Fri May 19, 2023, 07:57 AM
May 2023

the crux of their whole problem. They could care less if I, a 65 year old female, walk around saying I'm and looking like a man. They are afraid they will be attracted to a person living as a female but formerly a guy. In their mind, this would mean that they were gay, which to them would be the end of the world as they know it. It's Caitlyn, not Chaz, who has their panties in a wad.

Warpy

(111,417 posts)
9. Republicans making stupid laws for problems that don't exist
Thu May 18, 2023, 08:05 PM
May 2023

What else can you expect except horse shit like this?

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,719 posts)
10. Most trans folks will continue to use the restroom that matches their appearance.
Thu May 18, 2023, 08:08 PM
May 2023

I suspect a lot of non trans people are going to get caught up in this idiocy and get harrassed.

Warpy

(111,417 posts)
29. No shit and most of us are sane enough not to care
Thu May 18, 2023, 09:14 PM
May 2023

and yes, that will be the outcome, short cis men getting beaten up in the gents and the fluttery variety of woman screaming to store management because a woman with a buzz cut was spotted in the ladies'.

It's so fucking stupid.

BOSSHOG

(37,144 posts)
17. Their motive
Thu May 18, 2023, 08:38 PM
May 2023

To make stupid hateful people happy. Pathetic way to go through life. Trying to make other people miserable is the only way to make conservatives happy. It’s an illness.

GoodRaisin

(8,933 posts)
44. It's what being a Republican politician is all about.
Fri May 19, 2023, 02:49 PM
May 2023

This is how Republican politicians spend their time instead of addressing real issues. “Look the other way” while corporations rob us blind making money off of sick people and poisoning the environment.

Joinfortmill

(14,493 posts)
12. In France I was surprised to learn men/women use the same facilities. No problems except...
Thu May 18, 2023, 08:23 PM
May 2023

for the surprised look on my face when the dude came out of the stall next to me.

Captain Zero

(6,853 posts)
15. Some places around me put up a sign between the two restrooms
Thu May 18, 2023, 08:30 PM
May 2023

and took down the male/female signs.

The new sign says " If you gotta go, then go. Use either restroom and lock the door."

This restroom stuff is such bullshit.

MagickMuffin

(15,976 posts)
14. Mommy, Why is that man using the women's restroom?
Thu May 18, 2023, 08:26 PM
May 2023



Daddy, Why is that woman using the men’s restroom?


This will allow anyone to just claim they were born as a certain sex to gain access to any restroom they want.

I worry about transgendered women having to use the men’s restroom, How many will be assaulted?


chowmama

(416 posts)
21. But it serves its purpose
Thu May 18, 2023, 08:51 PM
May 2023

Which is "Hey look over here, stupid!" (And don't look at all the crap I'm doing to eff your lives over, you idiots.)

If there's a dramatic bunch of sirens, fireworks, and explosions to the left, nobody notices the Grand Theft Everything going on to the right.

raging moderate

(4,314 posts)
37. Looks like Ron DeSantis wants to provoke fights.
Fri May 19, 2023, 07:47 AM
May 2023

State Legislator Neil Anderson of Andalusia, Illinois, just proclaimed that he will "beat the living p- out of" any man who enters the same restroom as his daughter. That is, any person who looks like a man to him.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,719 posts)
42. Because he was born a woman.
Fri May 19, 2023, 01:43 PM
May 2023

Florida Republicans passed legislation Wednesday that would make it a misdemeanor trespassing offense for someone to use certain bathrooms that don’t align with their sex at birth.




https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/florida-gop-transgender-bathroom-bill-00095168

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