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This is in direct response to the first openly transgender member of congress being elected. This is a targeted attack against Sarah McBride.
So pathetic and petty. What did this person ever do to them? The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait? It gives me a headache to even try to understand it.
Simple, it's just an excuse to be hateful. It's not complicated.
The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait?
One of the big downsides to pretending 100% of Holocaust victims were Jewish is that the 50% who weren't were sent to the camps for other reasons.
Like being Trans, or any other kids and of LGBT. The problem was even "the good guys" were anti-lgbt back then, just look at how they treated their war heroes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Homosexuality_and_indecency_conviction
And then America, who had taken in all types of Nazis scientists, denied Turing entry just to fucking take a vacation.
I think this is why so many people are shocked by trump winning, people actually believed Americans were inherently good, and they believed it.
What did this person ever do to them?
Exist.
The Republican party has used hate and fear to make a significant portion of our society hate the IDEA of other people existing. None of these people know or interact with trans people, or they wouldn't hate them. I know trans people. Spoiler Alert: they're just people. That's it. But the Republican party is brainwashing Americans to believe they aren't.
Hate won in America a few weeks ago.
Petty in a very child minded way, like a 10 year old bully. This is the next 4 years. Petty, greedy children ruining everything.
A society with a majority of voters who are petty, greedy, ruining everything.
Not their fault. Don't hate the non-wealthy ones, pity them.
They're deluded to be that way by the owner's for profit media propaganda and captured public education teaching us all that reveling in ~~greed~~ "rational self-interest" and being a rugged individual instead of a member of a society is the only way to live. You have to think critically (something most aren't taught until college by design) and actively buck that programming to actually see the reality for what it is.
There used to be something called the social contract, but that was set on fire so long ago with the false delusion lie impressed onto us by the owners of one day becoming the millionaires inflicting ourselves on society, many don't even know the term.
On one hand, yes, sure.
But on the other hand, those people have instant access to worldwide knowledge in the palm of their hand just like you and I do. They are misled, but they are also choosing (even if subconsciously) to wallow in their cynicism and hatred with the slightest bit of permission from their echo chamber.
If it makes you feel better, everything was already ruined.
The best case scenario was continued crony capitalist dystopic hellscape with the poor's lives being burned up in subservient subsistence to our modern pharoah oligarch class... but you know with identity affirming ribbons and pins and stuff.
Now we get all the oligarch stuff with... concentration camps and death squads and stuff.
Either way, the owners win, they don't care. Their mistresses will always have abortion on tap, their nepo children will always have their identities affirmed, elections are simply for the poors to either inflict supplimental cruelty on other poors or not to give us the illusion of choice and keep us hating one another instead of looking up at our owners.
This country was ruined irreparably in the 1980s, a few Tuesdays ago was just a reminder of that reality.
It was black people.
Then it was gay people.
Now it's trans people.
And we voted for this.
America is trash.
I think it should be said. I went to a reading of the names this year, as I have in some form every year since 2015; and I’ve never seen so many children’s names read. For context, the names are of the people murdered in transphobic hate crimes in the past year. It used to be a notable tragedy when a 15 year old was driven to suicide and this year we had multiple 14 year olds dead by others’ hands.
Speaker Johnson doesn’t care though. I’m sure he’d say his behavior today was in those children’s best interests, but no the transphobia he is promoting is killing children both by emboldening bigots and by driving them to hopelessness.
I hope someday he has to stand before his victims and a deity and explain himself. I hope he begins acting in a way so as to make it a less unpleasant experience when he gets to that point.
I hope someday he has to stand before his victims and a deity
He won't.
The bad guys are winning. Simple as that.
Any repercussions will have to be earthly. Hope we can make that happen. But at this point I'm gonna go with "probably not", since we just elected a felon and rapist who is now guaranteed to get away with his crimes.
This isn’t just ignorant, it’s also a complete waste of taxpayer dollars and good will. Do something that matters, Johnson.
Do you REALLY want him to do something he thinks matters?
Uh, good point.
Do something that matters
I challenge anyone reading this to point out a time Republicans did something that mattered (positively) at any point so far in the 21st century.
Ignorant, a waste of tax money, good will, AND downright malicious.
Looks like his desk is a great place to use the bathroom instead!
The irony is Mr. Garrison is trans in later seasons…
The cruelty is the point.
So unisex bathrooms aren't a thing, aka, normal bathrooms?
Also the dismantling of government agencies begins! First step, OSHA!
PDF Warning: 1-800-321-OSHA (6742) 1 www.osha.gov A Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers
I was in Europe and they had full unisex bathrooms. There were only stalls and the dividers were floor to near 8 feet. And no gaps you could see through on the doors. It was no big deal, everyone just did their thing and left.
The only place I've experienced this in the US is Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Some of their restrooms are exactly like you describe. Full height stalls (small rooms basically) with a shared sink area. Literally no one I saw has had an issue with it. You just go, wait in line with everyone else, and take a stall when your turn comes. No issue and no confusion. There is no reason this can't be the norm in the US.
There's a brewpub/restaurant in my city that has a similar setup.
I've never heard anyone complain about it. Most are surprised for a couple of seconds the first time, but just carry on with no problems.
As a german I have never seen this but whichever country is doing that has things figured out.
To be clear we do still have proper stalls, it's just that bathrooms are always gendered unless it's a really small place that only has one toilet in the first place.
That's how the states are, but also the stalls tend to have a 1/4 to 1/2 inch (.6-1.25cm) gap at the sides and on the door. So you don't have much privacy, plus there is often no indicator of weather it's occupied or not. So you end up awkwardly kinda seeing if someone is in there by checking the gap but also trying not to see what you don't want to see
I've been to venues in New England where the formerly gendered restrooms are unisexed with just signs--something along the lines is "unisex with urinals" and "unisex without urinals". Sometimes the change is just for an event, sometimes it's more permanent. It just works.
What a prat. As a member of Gen X, I'm deeply ashamed. We were supposed to be the first generation not to care about people's gender and sexuality.
We were supposed to be the first generation not to care about people's gender and sexuality.
Many of us got there.
Unfortunately there are some in every generation who ate a bit too much glue in their formative years.
Hey now, I used to love library paste, and I didn't grow up to be a hateful bigoted asshole. Hateful and an asshole, yes, but not bigoted.
Whites only bathrooms within 20 years I bet.
Try more like January 21st.
Petty pathetic and normal for the GOP. Too bad they did not pass a Nazi bathroom ban but I guess to close to home.
This is really an awful wasteful thing to do. Especially on a day like that. It's really disturbing how little empathy some people seem to hold. I fucking hate Americans (as an American) :c
Perhaps I read too many stories where humans are past this kind of bigotry. I hope so much for such a time—some day. But living amidst the constant hate and bigotry... it hurts so much. It's so very tiring.
Sorry, but us hairless chimps will forever be scared of the other hairless chimps on the other side of the hill.
Does Mike Johnson have a johnson? How do we even know?
Let the inspections begin (edit: with "him")
Almost all non-gender bathrooms I have ever seen are just single occupent restrooms. Would that be covered under the ban, or would their be more nuance than that?
Single occupant bathrooms should be the norm everywhere. Visiting a country where they do that, after being used to the garbage arrangements we have in the US, was fantastic. It was one item on a list of a thousand that made me think “so this is what it looks like when a society values human dignity more than an extra hundred bucks in a millionaire’s pocket!”
Well I guess 355 days of being able to use the bathroom is a fair compromise
I'm a trans woman in Europe. Got traumatised by public restrooms in the 1990s way before my transition when one fucking coin-operated bathroom lock on a train station malfunctioned and I almost missed a train until some dude entered. Why the fuck do people use public bathrooms. Scourge on humanity. Especially coin-operated ones. Fuck them. I always hold until I get home, no matter what. Yet, glad our trains have gender neutral bathrooms. And they're free of charge. SEE, AMERICA? TRAINS GOOD.