cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/35835
Idaho House Passes Trans Bathroom Ban With 5 Year Prison Sentence
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/idaho-house-passes-trans-bathroom
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/idaho-house-passes-trans-bathroom
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/35835
32 Comments
warbosstodd@piefed.social · 83 pts · 186d
Step 1) turn up heat in chamber and offer free drinks to all Republican house members and proceed to filibuster the next bill
Step 2) close all men’s rooms in the facility.
Step 3) place female police officers inside every women’s bathroom in the facility.
Step 4) put mug shots of every arrested Republican on the front page of the paper.
bonus: make them all register as sex offenders.
cybervseas@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 186d
Police aren't going to help
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 22 pts · 186d
They're already registered Republicans.
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 186d
The Republicans have distilled their hatred to be only for "biological sex" and included a specific exemption for that in the text of the bill.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 186d
That sounds a lot like that king of the hill episode lol
apftwb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 186d
Bold of you to assume Republican state house members won't get preferential treatment by judges they golf with.
heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf · 27 pts · 186d
What a bunch of backward idiots. How can anyone make such a fool of themselves?
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 186d
The collapse. If you can measure the sanity of an empire by it's laws, this is stage 7 rot.
yggstyle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 186d
I did think the potato quality had dropped recently. It seems it reached the state government.
8bittech@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 186d
Piss in the streets, lesser fine.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 185d
That's a really good point. Just drop your drawers and take a shit on the floor in front of the bathroom since you're not allowed in. 3 months is better than 5 years!
Also, it's goddamned ridiculous that it's far less serious to publicly defecate than to go in a bathroom and use a toilet.
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 186d
But you very likely have to register as a sex offender.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 186d
I think that's the point of this bill as well.
tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social · 22 pts · 186d
Quick question: If a person is sentenced to 5 years in prison for this, and they need the bathroom while in the prison… do they get another 5 years every time they go?
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 186d
Of course. American prison is about punishment, not making people better.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 185d
Punishment and legal slave labor! Yay America!
village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 186d
They would go to a prison for their birth gender, so no.
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d
Prisons are typically single sex and I don't think they will put people in the correct prison.
FishFace@piefed.social · 20 pts · 186d
Even if you're a raging transphobe and actually believe trans people shouldn't/don't exist, 5 years in jail for going in the wrong bathroom is fucking insane and kind of gives the game away that these people are performatively cruel shitstains. (In case there was any doubt)
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 186d
How many years for shitting on the floor outside my bathroom of choice?
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 185d
Someone else in the thread found the penalty.
It’s 3 months in jail
FishFace@piefed.social · 0 pts · 186d
Wrong question.
Right question: how many years for shitting on the desks of the Idaho state representatives that passed this?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 186d
How about we just make seperate bathrooms for MAGA. I don't want those peeping Toms and Tammy trying to look at my private parts.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 186d
Idahostan
masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 186d
iDachau
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 6 pts · 186d
Lesser Idaho keeps going lower & lower & …
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 186d
Well at least Iran is trying to fuck with the USA.
JTskulk@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 185d
Let's start a gofundme to send Buck Angel to Idaho. They'll change their mind when they see Buck and which bathroom they've now legislated him to use.
nightlily@leminal.space · 4 pts · 185d
Stop using trans men like this. It doesn’t work like that and never has. Actually doing it would put trans men at further risk of violence, and these legislators do not care one bit about who is using the bathrooms or not. They just want to criminalise being trans in public, which this is very effective at doing - since you can’t safely use either bathroom in reality.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 185d
He's kind of an asshole, maybe we can find someone less problematic?
JTskulk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 185d
That's sad if true. Is there someone else that can get the point across without even needing to utter a word?
sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 185d
JTskulk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 185d
Well shit, that sucks. Except that means Buck will align with them more ideologically, Buck is still the best person for the job ;)
sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 185d