Tennessee's transgender bathroom law has penalties, its sponsor reveals

[SheltieLover]

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/tennessees-transgender-bathroom-law-penalties-sponsor-reveals-rcna1059

The penalty, which wasn't mentioned during hearings and debate, could mean jail time for business owners who let trans people use the bathroom of their choice.

May 28, 2021, 9:02 AM CDT
By The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The sponsor of Tennessee’s new law requiring businesses and government facilities to post signs if they let transgender people use the bathrooms of their choice now says owners and officials who refuse could face up to six months in jail — a penalty that went unmentioned during legislative hearings and debate.

The question of who would do the enforcing remains murky as well.

Republican Rep. Tim Rudd, who sponsored the bathroom sign bill, said a class B misdemeanor could apply to those who won’t post the signs within 30 days of being warned they’re breaking the law. That seems to contradict what Rudd told fellow lawmakers in March. He said then that the bill version that would become law “does not provide any fines or penalties at this point.”

More at link.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Insanity.

[vercetti2021]

2. Suck it Tennessee

The fuck if I'd ever drive through your shithole state. I'll drive around it if I gotta protect myself from your transphobic, fascist laws

[Comfortably_Numb]

4. Texas has joined the chat. Our douche bag Lt Gov Patrick wants a special session

bc his Wingnuttiest hateful shit didn’t get passed in the regular session. A bathroom bill was his priority. Voter suppression and “constitutional carry” for drumph humping magats wasn’t enough. A special level of shitbird.

[vercetti2021]

5. If that bathroom bill is passed

I'll be looking for ways to leave the state. I'm not about to risk my life because the fascists here wanna make it hell for me

[Comfortably_Numb]

13. It's insufferable... you can feel the hate in this shithole state.

[vercetti2021]

14. I can

I'd probably leave to New Mexico or Colorado. I don't feel safe anymore here

[Comfortably_Numb]

15. My son's in Denver and I'm heading there this spring...

Enough!!

[vercetti2021]

16. Might need refuge with yall

Seriously

[Comfortably_Numb]

17. I hear you loud and clear.

[Initech]

3. This is some Nazi level bullshit.

[hurple]

6. So... if Rupaul in full drag enters a Male bathroom...

I bet that would go over real well...

Not

[Oneironaut]

8. Just FYI - RuPaul Identifies as a Male

I get the point, but in case you didn't know: RuPaul isn't trans, and Male drag queens usually identify as Male.

[hurple]

11. I know...

Just trying to use the most public figure I could think of to make the point.

[Mr.Bill]

12. How about if Chas Bono

is required by law to use the same bathroom as a 12 year old girl?

[hurple]

18. Just to show how little I think about this crap...

I forgot chas bono even existed. 😂

Good choice.

[MineralMan]

7. Kinfolk said, "Move away from there!."

[Generic Brad]

9. Not as easy as it sounds

I am fortunate to have found the most progressive, ethical, humane employer I have ever worked for. I didn't find that in the other three liberal, progressive states I have previously lived in (MN was one of them, sir). I'm on a blue island in a sea of red these days.

I'll do my part and keep voting for and promoting sane candidates here. And I won't quit until we overturn this "law". Not every part of Tennessee is batshit crazy.

[yardwork]

10. Republicans always lie.

[spanone]

19. Our state is circling the toilet bowl.