too many taps to get to rejecting cookies so I’ll save you the click: Odessa, Texas is the city
I desperately need to get out of this state
I don’t want to post the “Da Fuck ya doing over there”-meme again. But what the hell.
Any allies game to go to the mayor’s office and conduct a shit-in?
Can’t legally use a bathroom? Let’s go on the floor.
I can legally shit in any room. I even have a card somewhere licensing me to do so. My shits are the stankiest. I can’t make it to Odessa until 11/1 (i have an appointment today) but I will gladly drop a deuce directly in his office.
There should be a name for this. “The constituent letter” or “The Pelosi kiss” or maybe “The MAGA crayon.”
The Hidalgo swim
Some of us remember the coed bathroom featured on the hit 90s show Ally McBeal. It seemed like a progressive but not so far fetched idea at the time. So WTF are we doing still arguing about this 25 years later? These bathroom nazis need to get a grip.
Trans identity supersedes all law, or medical context, or any other bullshit justification for dehumanizing anyone experiencing any form of Gender Dysphoria.
You as a person reading this have value. Just by your very sentience you have worth. You are loved.
We will overcome this moment in our history eventually, we may not all live to see it happen but we will. I know that’s an atom of relief in a sea of pain. Don’t let this bullshit dim your shine.
I love each and every one of you.
Despite what the law might say, there’s no evidence whatsoever that letting trans people use their preferred bathroom causes any “injury or harm” to cis people.
To the contrary, there is evidence that restricting bathroom access is harmful to trans people - and cis people too, like Jay, a cis woman who was harassed in a bathroom after being mistaken for a trans person.
Even if they use the “right” restroom trans people are in danger of being harassed all the same if they pass too well: https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/7/12/trans-man-brutally-assaulted-using-womens-restroom-campground
Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. The point of laws like this isn’t to protect cis women and girls, it’s just to cause as much suffering as possible, because that’s all Republicans care about.
Despite what the law might say, there’s no evidence whatsoever that letting trans people use their preferred bathroom causes any “injury or harm” to cis people.
Can confirm: Having shared many a bathroom with trans folks and I have managed to survive unharmed. Who would have thunk?
Also there is evidence that it is harmful to cis people. Especially cis women who might be queer or straight or gender nonconforming or not. These fuckwads always forget trans men exist and just harass women more with this shit. They don’t give a fuck off you’re trans or not, it’s about control. And their especially interested in controlling women.
It’s also directly tied to fascism. Eco points to Machismo in point 12 of Ur-Fascism. “[Fascists hold] both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.” Meaning it’s not just women, trans women, gay men, people outside of traditional 1940s gender roles, but it also includes straight, cis men who just don’t seem to be straight and cis enough.
harmful to trans people.
And there’s the true intent of the Republican legislators.
What, we’re supposed to let them use the restroom that matches their identity just because it’s the moral right thing to do, costs us nothing, and the alternative harms everyone!? Sounds like someone is WOKE!!!
FYI Texas has been marked as a “do not travel” state on Erin Reed’s trans risk map: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/final-pre-election-2024-anti-trans
I have a trans teenage cousin in Texas. We’re not close, but I worry. All I can really do is let him and his mom know I exist in a “safe” state and hope they reach out if they decide to leave.
I think that was inevitable unfortunately…
I’m in one of the worst states, I’m scared about where things are going …
I go through Oklahoma just to skip Texas when driving cross country. Oklahoma is preferable to Texas. Yeesh.
Pop Quiz:
Which bathroom should he use?
As long as it’s not my stall, I don’t care
He can use mine
Pssshhhhh!!! Look at this bourgeoisie mother fucker over here, refusing to share their stall with others!
Selfish. Yes, that’s the word!
The common working man poops on the left half of the toilet, and a stranger from the streets poop on the right half! AND THEY BOTH HATE THE YANKEES!!!
Because fuck the Yankees. Can’t believe I have to cheer for the god damn Dodgers …
Whichever he want to use. Period.
Just like everyone else.
That’s OBVIOUSLY a Woman and should use my Daughter’s Bathroom!
The one with the toilet.
I’m gonna need to see his tits first. Duh.
is there an easy way for us to abuse this system to get ourselves paid a bunch of money?
Fucking Texas.
This can’t possibly be the United States of—oh shit…
Step 1: Identify as cat
Step 2: Turn yourself in
Step 3: Claim 10,000 bucks
Step 4: No crime was committed, goto 1
While the bounty is set to a minimum of $10,000, there is no cap on how large the bounty can be.
Can someone explain what this headline was supposed to say? The grammar is… Confusing.
It has a typo, of should be on. $10,000 bounty on trans people’s heads.
And high fives from everybody for the heads of the people who put up the bounty!
