North Carolina Passes "Anti-LGBT" Bill

[Galloism]

So?

So, if you have a penis and were not born intersex, you're male and you use the male restroom. Simple as that.

Why do we want to keep segregation, though?

There doesn't seem to be any good reason for it.

[Lady Scylla]

So?

So, if you have a penis and were not born intersex, you're male and you use the male restroom. Simple as that.

How d'you propose we enforce that? Y'know, without intruding on someone's privacy, and getting slapped with a lawsuit. It's not enforceable, and the legislation doesn't make any sense. It's fallaciously dishonest.

[Des-Bal]

TRANSGENDER people don't want to rape anyone. Well, statistically, some of them probably do. But no more than any other group. The problem is that anyone could claim to be transgender, and say that they haven't had a sex-change operation yet. Then go and do whatever they want in the bathroom of the opposite sex. Filming, eavesdropping, anything (Can't really see actual, foll-on rape happening in a crowded public restroom though). A better law would be to keep people who claim to have not yet had a sex-change operation to the restroom of their biological gender upon birth, and allow all other members of the transgender community to use the restroom of their own gender.

Anyways, I do sort of hate how they say the bill is to "Protect women". I'd feel violated if someone had taken pictures of me naked too. It also implies that FTM people don't exist, or that only men are capable of sexual assault. Which is an implication that manages to insult everyone at once.

Good law, it will stop all those rapists who have a moral objection to lying. Unless of course this is actually going to graduate into looking at people's genitals as they go in.

[The Shadow Republik]

So here's my question to you: What makes it right to discriminate against transgender individuals?

There's no more discrimination involved in this bill than there are in boys being restricted from girls bathrooms and vice versa.[/quote]
i agree with the bill saying i mean you wouldn't let a straight man into the girl's bathroom and vise versa but i think it would freak someone out if a female looking person walks into the men's room and a male looking person walked in the the girls rooms so i'm neutral on the problem because i don't care. plus I think people fighting about this is kinda stupid. and i'm not a bigot i just wish people would realize that everyone is equal under the law but there are some laws that protect both genders.

[Lady Scylla]

Why does every debate on this always come down to THEY JUST WANT TO RAPE US?

TRANSGENDER people don't want to rape anyone. Well, statistically, some of them probably do. But no more than any other group. The problem is that anyone could claim to be transgender, and say that they haven't had a sex-change operation yet. Then go and do whatever they want in the bathroom of the opposite sex. Filming, eavesdropping, anything (Can't really see actual, foll-on rape happening in a crowded public restroom though). A better law would be to keep people who claim to have not yet had a sex-change operation to the restroom of their biological gender upon birth, and allow all other members of the transgender community to use the restroom of their own gender.

Anyways, I do sort of hate how they say the bill is to "Protect women". I'd feel violated if someone had taken pictures of me naked too. It also implies that FTM people don't exist, or that only men are capable of sexual assault. Which is an implication that manages to insult everyone at once.

Pretty much. That alone should make it abundantly clear what the legislation is actually targetting.

[Khadgar]

So a bunch of perverts cause transgender people to no longer be able to use the correct bathrooms. Why do people keep electing pervs?

[Des-Bal]

How d'you propose we enforce that? Y'know, without intruding on someone's privacy, and getting slapped with a lawsuit. It's not enforceable, and the legislation doesn't make any sense. It's fallaciously dishonest.

I imagine they'd enforce it the same way they enforce keeping men out of women's bathrooms.

[Lady Scylla]

How d'you propose we enforce that? Y'know, without intruding on someone's privacy, and getting slapped with a lawsuit. It's not enforceable, and the legislation doesn't make any sense. It's fallaciously dishonest.

I imagine they'd enforce it the same way they enforce keeping men out of women's bathrooms.

Which, essentially means it's unenforceable. Trans peeps are extremely 'convincing', so unless you're walking around in a dress with a Paul Bunyan on your face, it's unlikely any eyebrows will be raised.

[New Chilokver]

Clearly the solution is to replace all segregated bathrooms with unisex stalls. *nods*

[Friedensreich]

I guess I do not support nor reject this law. It doesn't really affect me in any way, or any people I know.
But it makes me wonder why North Carolina is passing it in the first place. Were they having problems with transgender people going into bathrooms that aren't the gender specified on their birth certificate? Or, did some random Republican in North Carolina's government just proposed it on a whim to start a controversy?

[Washington Resistance Army]

Clearly the solution is to replace all segregated bathrooms with unisex stalls. *nods*

But the sexual predators will be everywhere

[Boineburg]

I imagine they'd enforce it the same way they enforce keeping men out of women's bathrooms.

Which, essentially means it's unenforceable. Trans peeps are extremely 'convincing', so unless you're walking around in a dress with a Paul Bunyan on your face, it's unlikely any eyebrows will be raised.

I guess I'll just remind everyone that this bill nullifies anti-discrimination laws passed by local governments beneath the NC state government. It's not specifically trying to enforce any laws prohibiting transgenders from using whatever restroom they want.

[Philjia]

Clearly the solution is to replace all segregated bathrooms with unisex stalls. *nods*

Makes more sense. Maybe throw in some urinals, but otherwise there's no particular good reason to keep segregated public bathrooms.

[Ifreann]

In addition to the content of the bill, I think the Republican Party, the party of freedom and small government, deserves a round of applause for dictating to municipalities what anti-discrimination and minimum wage laws they may pass.

[Cannot think of a name]

I love the implication that there is a sexual predator out there who is willing to do illegal harassment and assault but isn't willing to go into a bathroom their not allowed to. "Oh man, if I was just allowed in that bathroom I'd do sooooo much harassment...if only there was a loophole..."

[Philjia]

I love the implication that there is a sexual predator out there who is willing to do illegal harassment and assault but isn't willing to go into a bathroom their not allowed to. "Oh man, if I was just allowed in that bathroom I'd do sooooo much harassment...if only there was a loophole..."

Which is, arguably, why unisex bathrooms actually make more sense from a safety standpoint.

[Vassenor]

Which, essentially means it's unenforceable. Trans peeps are extremely 'convincing', so unless you're walking around in a dress with a Paul Bunyan on your face, it's unlikely any eyebrows will be raised.

I guess I'll just remind everyone that this bill nullifies anti-discrimination laws passed by local governments beneath the NC state government. It's not specifically trying to enforce any laws prohibiting transgenders from using whatever restroom they want.

So why is the governor saying exactly that? Going on and on about how it'll keep "sexual predators" out of women's bathrooms.

[Des-Bal]

Which, essentially means it's unenforceable. Trans peeps are extremely 'convincing', so unless you're walking around in a dress with a Paul Bunyan on your face, it's unlikely any eyebrows will be raised.

They really aren't especially if they didn't partake in surgery or hormones at a young age. I am not convinced the policies would be impossible to enforce.

[New Chilokver]

Clearly the solution is to replace all segregated bathrooms with unisex stalls. *nods*

Makes more sense. Maybe throw in some urinals, but otherwise there's no particular good reason to keep segregated public bathrooms.

Urinals would probably have to go in a seperate room though.

[New Benian Republic]

I can understand why they want the bill but I can also see it from the LQBTQA+ community.

[Setgavarius]

So a bunch of perverts cause transgender people to no longer be able to use the correct bathrooms. Why do people keep electing pervs?

Because they're ignorant and afraid I guess? Beats me.

I guess I do not support nor reject this law. It doesn't really affect me in any way, or any people I know.
But it makes me wonder why North Carolina is passing it in the first place. Were they having problems with transgender people going into bathrooms that aren't the gender specified on their birth certificate? Or, did some random Republican in North Carolina's government just proposed it on a whim to start a controversy?

It's on a whim, in a Republican state, to oppose the existence of transgender people the moment they knew that they did exist. NC most likely conflates sex and gender on birth certificates; and generally the most recognized trans demographic would like to have their "sex"* changed.
*Especially if they're gonna get SRS.
Disclaimer: this is all from my mind and has a good chance of being inaccurate. I apologize for promoting bullshit with this post.

Clearly the solution is to replace all segregated bathrooms with unisex stalls. *nods*

b-but my only-male pedo rapists! :gasp: Reds would hate that.

[Boineburg]

I guess I'll just remind everyone that this bill nullifies anti-discrimination laws passed by local governments beneath the NC state government. It's not specifically trying to enforce any laws prohibiting transgenders from using whatever restroom they want.

So why is the governor saying exactly that? Going on and on about how it'll keep "sexual predators" out of women's bathrooms.

He didn't propose the bill to my knowledge. That's just his reason for supporting it.

[Vassenor]

Which, essentially means it's unenforceable. Trans peeps are extremely 'convincing', so unless you're walking around in a dress with a Paul Bunyan on your face, it's unlikely any eyebrows will be raised.

They really aren't especially if they didn't partake in surgery or hormones at a young age. I am not convinced the policies would be impossible to enforce.

So how do you enforce it then?

[Philjia]

Makes more sense. Maybe throw in some urinals, but otherwise there's no particular good reason to keep segregated public bathrooms.

Urinals would probably have to go in a seperate room though.

Yeah.

Now that I think about it, urinals are the only reason you should be publically exposed in a bathroom at all. Why are they sex segregated?

[Lady Scylla]

Which, essentially means it's unenforceable. Trans peeps are extremely 'convincing', so unless you're walking around in a dress with a Paul Bunyan on your face, it's unlikely any eyebrows will be raised.

I guess I'll just remind everyone that this bill nullifies anti-discrimination laws passed by local governments beneath the NC state government. It's not specifically trying to enforce any laws prohibiting transgenders from using whatever restroom they want.

The session, which was abruptly convened by Republican lawmakers on Tuesday, came in response to an antidiscrimination ordinance approved by the state’s largest city, Charlotte, last month. That ordinance provided protections based on sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity, including letting transgender people use the public bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, not gender at birth.

The state bill, put together so quickly that many lawmakers had not seen it before it was introduced Wednesday morning, specifically bars people in North Carolina from using bathrooms that do not match their birth gender, and goes further to prohibit municipalities from creating their own antidiscrimination policies. Instead, it creates a statewide antidiscrimination policy — one that does not mention gay and transgender people.