North Carolina Passes "Anti-LGBT" Bill

[Vassenor]

The men's and women's bathrooms correspond to sex, not gender. That's why they're different because of the plumbing they're designed to handle, not they're color scheme. The sooner people get this in their heads, the sooner we can put this behind us.

I don't understand. A toilet is a toilet.

[Philjia]

Another red state hates equal rights. More at 11.

"We love freedom, just not the wrong kind of freedom!"

[Lady Scylla]

The men's and women's bathrooms correspond to sex, not gender. That's why they're different because of the plumbing they're designed to handle, not they're color scheme. The sooner people get this in their heads, the sooner we can put this behind us.

And if that plumbing doesn't fit? Be a bit of a problem trying to force a FTM person who now dangles and has a beard that could make Gandalf cry to go use the women's bathroom.

[Lady Scylla]

Here[pdf] is the text of the bill. Rather looks to me like the section added to Article 37 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes and the new Chapter 81 of Article 143 do prohibit trans people from using bathrooms based on their gender identity.

Thanks for completely ignoring my open withdrawal of that claim and continuing to argue pointlessly against it.

Most likely didn't see the edit.

[Diopolis]

The men's and women's bathrooms correspond to sex, not gender. That's why they're different because of the plumbing they're designed to handle, not they're color scheme. The sooner people get this in their heads, the sooner we can put this behind us.

Down with segregated bathrooms.

And that's a reasonable criticism to make. I would disagree, but there it is.
Screaming "transphobic!" Because it's not going your way is not. The fact of the matter is that bathrooms and locker rooms are segregated on the basis of sex and not gender and the state passed a law declaring that fact.

[Mithridia]

I can see it now; Police waiting by bathroom doors to grab crotches in the name of the law, breaking another in the name of justice.

Wouldn't work. They'd have to check birth certificates.

"While I crave your junk, I'd like to see your birth certificate."

You have to bring paperwork to take a crap. I'd cry.

[Cesopium]

Regarding the whole stall sub-discussion in this thread, after some...minor research(aka me typing in things about bathroom stalls on Google) I came up with these results.


1. Cost Reduction due to reduced structure and shared illumination
2. Air flow
3. Increased durability, as a door reaching the floor would get water damage daily
4.To help clean the floor

[Ceres-Vesta]

Another red state hates equal rights. More at 11.

I still remember when we got gay marriage legalized here. I refused to believe it until my friend handed me proof. Honestly, I would have believed that we had seceded before believing that we had legalized gay marriage.

This is not an anti-LGBT bill. Anyone can change the sex on their birth certificate.
http://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/transgender/changing-birth-certificate-sex-designations

Some states have arbitrary bullshit laws demanding you live as your preferred gender publically for a certain time.

Before surgery? In that case, it's to ensure that the person in question really wants to go through with it. It's an important decision to make, after all. Plenty of people don't need that period (for obvious reasons), but some people really do. I personally had a friend who thought they were FTM transgender, but later realized they were gender neutral.

[Lady Scylla]

Wouldn't work. They'd have to check birth certificates.

"While I crave your junk, I'd like to see your birth certificate."

You have to bring paperwork to take a crap. I'd cry.

Not to mention the money, the manpower, and the time necessary to enforce it. It can't be enforced, they're morons if they think it can. Though, I suppose if North Carolina wants to go the route of Detroit, Michigan and hang themselves with their empty wallets, by all means, they can try.

[TeamNARWiC]

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.

It's not about the transgender people, it's about potential predators.

[New Benian Republic]

Ah yes, "protecting our children".

The way they're seeing it as I think is this: Maybe little Sally doesn't want to see little Willys willy if they're little children in school showers.

[Val Halla]

Down with segregated bathrooms.

And that's a reasonable criticism to make. I would disagree, but there it is.
Screaming "transphobic!" Because it's not going your way is not. The fact of the matter is that bathrooms and locker rooms are segregated on the basis of sex and not gender and the state passed a law declaring that fact.

Bathrooms based on sex are absolutely pointless. What logical purpose do they serve?

[Lady Scylla]

Another red state hates equal rights. More at 11.

I still remember when we got gay marriage legalized here. I refused to believe it until my friend handed me proof. Honestly, I would have believed that we had seceded before believing that we had legalized gay marriage.

Some states have arbitrary bullshit laws demanding you live as your preferred gender publically for a certain time.

Before surgery? In that case, it's to ensure that the person in question really wants to go through with it. It's an important decision to make, after all. Plenty of people don't need that period (for obvious reasons), but some people really do. I personally had a friend who thought they were FTM transgender, but later realized they were gender neutral.

I volunteered and worked for an organisation that handled bullying, and notably, a lot of the people we met were LGBT. So a lot of the information for seminars and such that we gathered dealt with issues relating to such. There's a reason therapy is a requirement to obtain the medical stuff later, because cases like that do happen.

[Des-Bal]

I disagree.

That's great because the argument that without beginning transition early a transgender person is not likely to pass is one of the few convincing arguments that parents should ignore their personal feelings and not forbid their children from starting the process while they live at home and if possible suppressing puberty. Since that's not actually an issue I guess there's no counter to the my house my rules argument.

[New Benian Republic]

And that's a reasonable criticism to make. I would disagree, but there it is.
Screaming "transphobic!" Because it's not going your way is not. The fact of the matter is that bathrooms and locker rooms are segregated on the basis of sex and not gender and the state passed a law declaring that fact.

Bathrooms based on sex are absolutely pointless. What logical purpose do they serve?

Not having children see other children's genetalia.

[Lady Scylla]

And that's a reasonable criticism to make. I would disagree, but there it is.
Screaming "transphobic!" Because it's not going your way is not. The fact of the matter is that bathrooms and locker rooms are segregated on the basis of sex and not gender and the state passed a law declaring that fact.

Bathrooms based on sex are absolutely pointless. What logical purpose do they serve?

Men are rapists, didn't y'know? They just don't have any self-control.

[Crockerland]

Ah yes, "protecting our children".

The way they're seeing it as I think is this: Maybe little Sally doesn't want to see little Willys willy if they're little children in school showers.

Group showers in schools should be illegal anyways.

[Ifreann]

This is not an anti-LGBT bill. Anyone can change the sex on their birth certificate.
http://www.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/transgender/changing-birth-certificate-sex-designations

So I was correct then.

Furthermore;

North Carolina
Statute: N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 130A-118(b)(4), (e) (2005).

Text: (b) A new certificate of birth shall be made by the State Registrar when . . .

(4) A written request from an individual is received by the State Registrar to change the sex on that individual's birth record because of sex reassignment surgery, if the request is accompanied by a notarized statement from the physician who performed the sex reassignment surgery or from a physician licensed to practice medicine who has examined the individual and can certify that the person has undergone sex reassignment surgery.

Obviously anyone can get sex reassignment surgery. Takes twenty minutes and most places will give you a complimentary head massage.

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Here[pdf] is the text of the bill. Rather looks to me like the section added to Article 37 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes and the new Chapter 81 of Article 143 do prohibit trans people from using bathrooms based on their gender identity.

Thanks for completely ignoring my open withdrawal of that claim and continuing to argue pointlessly against it.

You're welcome. Thanks for hanging around to get mad at people posting pertinent facts.

[Neutraligon]

I really fail to see how this law defends women as the governor claims. Women's restrooms have stalls, so in order to peep one would have to look under the stall, which tends to be noticeable, or climb the stall, which also tends to be noticeable. In north Carolina women are allowed to breastfeed in public, so showing nipples to breastfeed is hardly a problem (http://ncbfc.org/breastfeeding-laws-regulations/), FInally if someone where to attempt to sexually assault a woman in the restroom, little signs are hardly going to stop them, and having someone who is or might be physically stronger than that woman also using the restroom at the same time (a mtf) would offer them more protection. This law fails in every way imaginable. I also notice that people don't seem to care if a woman attempts to peep in the men's restroom, I wonder why.

[Lady Scylla]

So I was correct then.

Furthermore;

Obviously anyone can get sex reassignment surgery. Takes twenty minutes and most places will give you a complimentary head massage.

Clearly.

[New Benian Republic]

The way they're seeing it as I think is this: Maybe little Sally doesn't want to see little Willys willy if they're little children in school showers.

Group showers in schools should be illegal anyways.

Yes they should they're terribly disgusting.

[Wallenburg]

Bathrooms based on sex are absolutely pointless. What logical purpose do they serve?

Not having children see other children's genetalia.

Stalls tend to have doors.

[Diopolis]

And that's a reasonable criticism to make. I would disagree, but there it is.
Screaming "transphobic!" Because it's not going your way is not. The fact of the matter is that bathrooms and locker rooms are segregated on the basis of sex and not gender and the state passed a law declaring that fact.

Bathrooms based on sex are absolutely pointless. What logical purpose do they serve?

Modesty, they're set up to handle different sex's plumbing, etc.

[Lady Scylla]

I disagree.

That's great because the argument that without beginning transition early a transgender person is not likely to pass is one of the few convincing arguments that parents should ignore their personal feelings and not forbid their children from starting the process while they live at home and if possible suppressing puberty. Since that's not actually an issue I guess there's no counter to the my house my rules argument.

Let's not get cocky. And that was one hell of a run-on sentence. What?

[Khadgar]

The way they're seeing it as I think is this: Maybe little Sally doesn't want to see little Willys willy if they're little children in school showers.

Group showers in schools should be illegal anyways.

Oh they're educational. Stalls would have been nice though.