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[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Who the fuck would be dumb enough to do that in PORTLAND?!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You don’t have to drive far outside of Portland to see Trump flags flying on along the highway.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

You don’t even have to leave Portland to see it.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago

It was also a single occupant bathroom with a locking door. No real reason for it to even be gendered.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Portland and the surrounding areas are this weird dichotomy of super left-wing and super right-wing people all in the same place. Hence why you tend to get a lot of Proud Boys vs Antifa demonstrations/standoffs/fights there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I live in Toronto, and when you live in a place that's accepting of something like transgender people, the bigots feel attacked and become more vocal. The racists in Toronto get pretty vocal and I always wonder what the hell you're doing in one of the most multi cultural cities in the world if you don't like others

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious what the legality of this really is.

What rights do businesses have to dictate which restrooms their patrons use?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Probably none. The whole bathroom debate has been legally dubious from the outset.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's weird. They can refuse people using their bathrooms if they don't pay, I figured denying them for other reasons was also on the table.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How could it be? Are they checking birth certificates?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

“I wasn’t trying to misgender her — I had to look up what transgender was in the dictionary,” McIntyre said. “We were just arguing over spilt milk.”

This bartender is definitely a bigot. Like I'm to believe you don't know what transgender people are in 2024 and you work at a bar? Yeah right