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LeftInTX

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36. This applies to city facilities

Fri Oct 25, 2024, 02:22 PM

Oct 2024

If anything they can use it against employees where they have access to their gender(s), birthdate etc. Texas has open birth records. My kid's birthdays, parents' names, birth location etc are all online.

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City Bans Trans People From Using Restrooms That Don't Match Their Sex Assigned At Birth [View all] surfered Oct 2024 OP

Did we not all grow up (going back decades for lots of us) driving cross country and finding the gas stations hlthe2b Oct 2024 #1

Yes, and we also grew up in houses with just one bathroom. MineralMan Oct 2024 #2

The christian right. nt Hotler Oct 2024 #21

They also grew up sharing bathrooms at home. MineralMan Oct 2024 #34

This ordinance does not apply to businesses LeftInTX Oct 2024 #13

I'm referencing the concept, not the specific ordinance. This is not something NEW to most Americans. hlthe2b Oct 2024 #14

Yep - I had the opposite happen too FreeState Oct 2024 #38

You are forgetting other cases TommyT139 Oct 2024 #31

Yes. I know. I'm on my phone. LeftInTX Oct 2024 #35

Elsewhere TommyT139 Oct 2024 #41

Ok. As long as I'm not on my phone! LeftInTX Oct 2024 #42

For all practical purposes, this is unenforceable. But the intended purpose is to make people afraid * Oopsie Daisy Oct 2024 #3

I have never ever been afraid of or had issues with Quiet Em Oct 2024 #17

Because the men pushing this are projecting their own voyeuristic fantasies onto others. Oopsie Daisy Oct 2024 #20

So how is that going to be enforced? Will there be an official position of Crotch Monitor? Ocelot II Oct 2024 #4

This applies to city facilities LeftInTX Oct 2024 #36

It's still bad even if it doesn't apply to private businesses. Ocelot II Oct 2024 #37

I know it's bad. And it's illegal. LeftInTX Oct 2024 #40

How exactly are they going to enforce it? 4th Oct 2024 #5

So let me get this straight HAB911 Oct 2024 #6

Right. And when that person uses the women's bathroom these same people will scream bloody murder Wiz Imp Oct 2024 #39

Exactly. If what the TERFs and God-botherers are afraid of is trans people providing cover for male sexual predators, meadowlander Oct 2024 #43

If it's about preventing sexual abuse, then they need to ban Jerry2144 Oct 2024 #7

Try and check my "fitness" to be using a women's room. I dare you. Scrivener7 Oct 2024 #8

Texas is an "open carry without permit" state WestMichRad Oct 2024 #9

True surfered Oct 2024 #10

This is insane. area51 Oct 2024 #11

A policeman at ever door? How the fuck do you identify a "trans" person? Ferrets are Cool Oct 2024 #12

It doesn't apply to businesses LeftInTX Oct 2024 #16

Performative legislating. maxsolomon Oct 2024 #15

"Something else to do" for the Texas cop afraid of going after a school shooter, they can harass a trans person instead ck4829 Oct 2024 #18

Unenforceable NT Patton French Oct 2024 #19

Great solution RANDYWILDMAN Oct 2024 #22

Fuck the city of Odessa, TX, then. Initech Oct 2024 #23

And this is how transphobia hurts all women DSandra Oct 2024 #24

Odessa. Liberal In Texas Oct 2024 #25

Will they be policing port-a-potties at fairs and outdoor events in Odessa?? NoMoreRepugs Oct 2024 #26

Texas has become a fascist shithole along with Florida. Basso8vb Oct 2024 #27

What? Are they going to have a cop sit outside every bathroom checking birth certificates? Jacson6 Oct 2024 #28

They have to be sure. keithbvadu2 Oct 2024 #29

They employ.a guard in front of every toilet or what? Klarkashton Oct 2024 #30

Time for some civil disobedience MichMan Oct 2024 #32

Just what the heck, anyways. I've spent my fair share of time in men's rooms in my 70+ years ... marble falls Oct 2024 #33

I'm currently in my local brewpub Retrograde Oct 2024 #44