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City puts $10,000 bounty of trans people’s heads if they use a public restroom (www.lgbtqnation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

statutory damages in an amount of not less than $10,000

Fuck, its a minimum fine of $10,000 every time you have to pee. Wtf

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Out of curiosity what's their fine for regular public indecency, like, urinating in an alley? I'd imagine it's literally cheaper for a trans person there to piss on the side of city hall than it is a regular god damn restroom

What an awful little shitville

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Actually the fine is $500 at most. This is a guaranteed civil court payout, on top of any "damages" someone may receive. And since this is civil court, you operate on preponderance of evidence instead of beyond a reasonable doubt.

This sort of legislated punitive damages is what should be happening for instances of wage theft, but instead we're using it for harassing trans people while wage theft tends to have few if any punitive damages and mostly amounts to "ok, now give them their paycheck."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Thats the bounty pay out, not the fine collected. Right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The fine is a criminal statute of $500. The bounty is a civil statute of $10,000.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

For a non US person, who's paying the ten grands?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

The bounty itself reads that any person besides local and state government officials may sue a trans person using the restroom that aligns with their gender, with payments including “injunctive relief sufficient to prevent the defendant from violating the provisions of this ordinance; nominal and compensatory damages if the plaintiff has suffered injury or harm from the defendant’s conduct; statutory damages in an amount of not less than $10,000 for each violation of this ordinance; and court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees.”

As with the abortion bans, the """criminal""" themselves has to pay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

So it's the person you're suing. Essentially, it's a civil case like a car accident, but you're suing someone for going into the wrong bathroom. You're guaranteed a $10k judgement but can get more for "emotional damages" if the judge is a particular bigot.

Edit: it also means you can blackmail a trans person for a settlement and that's legal too, since the threat isn't so much the criminal fine but the civil one