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The legislation takes aim directly at trans individuals using the restroom or locker rooms, threatening those who “knowingly” and “willfully” enter facilities designated for the “opposite biological sex” with prison time. A first offense would count as a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. Those caught using the bathroom in repeated offenses, however, could be convicted as felons and face up to five years in prison.

It'll be interesting to see how this aligns with the Full Faith and Credit clause for someone who updates their birth certificate from another state that allows for that then uses the bathroom that aligns with said certificate.

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[–] fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 213 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wow at this rate the only transgender bathroom left will be Charlie Kirk's gravestone.

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[–] 7112@lemmy.world 175 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You are loved. You are fine the way you are. The world has a place for you. You are not alone.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I know Idaho is bleak right now but there are many areas much more accepting than Idaho.

It’s hard but I strongly encourage moving somewhere more blue. As someone that lives in a blue stronghold the cults is much more accepting than these places.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Boise isn’t down for the count yet. Last year when the state started coming after Pride flags on government property the Mayor and City Council adopted the Pride flag as our city flag. The state legislature has been trying to figure out how to override that ever since. We ran the Hammerskins out of town when they tried to have a music festival, we’ve put MAGAt business owners out of business, we’ve got a lot of teachers and librarians operating malicious compliance to the anti-woke mandates, and I’ve seen more than a few bigots get their teeth knocked out and heads stomped. They might have taken over our state but they haven’t taken over our city.

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago

Only pedophiles would think about children's dicks as much as Republicans do.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 60 points 5 days ago (7 children)

We need seperate bathrooms for MAGA, I don't feel comfortable sharing a bathroom with them as they are peeping toms and pedophile supporters.

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[–] Tigeroovy 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Right wingers are all such goddamn freaks I swear.

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[–] PunchingBag@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I live in Idaho, and the comments here are as ignorant as ever.

If you are trans/different/nonconservative in any way, let me say this very, very clearly:

THEY WANT YOU DEAD.

Not in prison, not a slave, not a member of society at all.

They want you DEAD.

Stop pussyfooting around this. Passing laws like this is merely a step towards their true goals. I am not being melodramatic, I cannot ring the warning bell hard enough after the conversations I have had with conservatives here. They are doing everything they can to slow-burn us into massacring our own people and even WANTING to think the best of these bad-faith psychos is bad FOR US ALL including THEM. They are essentially children that have been taught that having any moral code is weakness and that lying and cheating is strength. They do NOT have positive intentions and they ARE thinking about the long game. You will not convince them of anything using just words and arguments, not unless you find a way to put a LOT of money in their pockets, and you would have to first convince them that Trump didn't already do exactly that.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 34 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Is this a girl toilet or a guy toilet?

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

This is the ideal make body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's actually a really easy answer.

It's female.

les toilettes - in french.

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's male in Spanish lol. Does that make toilets non-binary?

el baño / el inodoro

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I cant wait for all the CIS conservatives who inevitably get arrested/genital inspected due to this law, and the inevitable crying of "It wasnt supposed to affect me, I feel so humiliated and attacked over this egregious invasion of my body" with zero self awareness or irony.

[–] FreshParsnip 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm scared of laws like this because I'm a cis woman and I have natural facial hair

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Laws like this always put non-conservative-traditional women in the crosshairs. Moreso than trans people, despite specifically attacking trans people, simply due to how many more CIS people there are than trans.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 68 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Our country sent a cruise missile into a school full of children last week.

[–] Typhoon 25 points 5 days ago

They sent two or three missiles in the school. It was a double-tap strike meant to maximize casualties. Some reports say it was a triple-tap.

[–] TheFermentalist@reddthat.com 76 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What the actual fucking fuck? Is it better to piss in the streets? Shit their pants on a crowded bus?

[–] floofloof 114 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, those will be felonies too. The point is to make it illegal to exist if you're trans. And the point of that is cruelty, an insatiable need that Republicans have.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 55 points 6 days ago (6 children)

We allow our pet dogs to piss anywhere. Yet if you can’t find a “public” bathroom, or find some business to buy a pack of gum for 25c, in order to be a customer to use their restroom, and you piss in an alley around the corner, you face charges like indecent exposure. All because you had to do some very basic natural function but society had placed obstacles and then labels you a criminal. Yet somehow everyone is so goddamn concerned over which bathroom you use.

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[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Do they include a definition of “biological sex”? And of how that’s going to be determined?

Of course not. They have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. They just want to hurt people

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (5 children)

What about intersex people... can they go in both?

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A felony? LOL

I wonder if they are smart enough to put exceptions in for children where the father or mother may possibly take the child into the 'wrong' bathroom.

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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 31 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Oooh! Oooh! I remember this one!

Next, businesses will have to create a separate restroom that says "TRANS ONLY" so things can be "separate but equal"...

ಠ_ಠ

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 61 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Are you a republican woman with broad shoulders, a big nose, or a square jaw. Congrats, the Karens are now going to ask the cops to look at your junk.

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[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I'd be shocked if Idaho had bathrooms as nice as the picture in the whole state.

[–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why haven't we adopted gender neutral bathrooms on a global scale?

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[–] FreshParsnip 34 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Now what is going to happen when a post-op trans man, who fully looks like a man, complies with this law by going into a women's bathroom?

[–] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 5 days ago (4 children)

He'll still be arrested or at the least harassed, and that's the point. The goal is to prevent trans people from using any public bathrooms.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Post op is still trans. These people don't care.

The bill doesn't say "use the correct restroom". It says "people we don't like can't use any restroom"

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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Once, I was told by the manager of a place I was at that I had to use the women’s bathroom. A cis man followed me in and beat me, only stopping when a woman told him to get out. I was a minor at the time, 15 or 16. He was a grown ass adult. This was all the way back in 2012, I’m pretty sure. Never used public bathrooms again until I left the US last year.

So, I guess if you’re a trans man, your choices are to comply with the law and get beaten (even if you’re a child, since as we know, this is all to protect the kids after all) or to not comply and get fined/arrested.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 49 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I use a unisex bathroom in Austin that had urinals and stalls. I felt like such a badass when I kept my composition while making a peepee while three women passed behind me going in and out of the bathroom.

And when I went to wash my hands, no one looked at each other or said hi or anything. The way it should be in a bathroom. Quit talking to me while I'm trying to not pee on the floor, guys!

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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Gendered bathrooms should be banned. Things being gender-exclusive should generally be illegal (regarded as bigotry/hate).

JUST PUT REAL WALLS INSTEAD OF STALLS

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[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 50 points 6 days ago (10 children)

So this is obviously stupid. I use the other gender bathroom when one bathroom is in use and I really have to go. Is that really something that should cause jail time? Really?

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 56 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Clearly, this is the most important issue impacting your typical working American family today.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Megyn Kelly sat there and told Bill Maher that trans was maybe her most important issue before the election in 2024. I mean, what the actual fuck?

These people are fucking crazy.

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Why are elderly men so obsessed with what goes on in women's restrooms? It's always about trans women and almost never about trans men (not that this is the main problem).

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[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Jaysus christo this is fucking weird and insane. And there is such an obvious, easy answer for the whole "problem" (of course there is no actual problem, this is insane fear mongering and hatred, but still..)

America: GIVE PEOPLE (ALL PEOPLE) PRIVACY IN PUBLIC BATHROOMS. Stop using "stalls" with gaps so large there may as well not be any dividers. Just look at a European bathroom where the toilets are in their own small rooms with doors that run from floor to ceiling. Seriously, you could remove the gender separation entirely and it wouldn't affect anything.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

I mean Republicans can't govern. So if they weren't persecuting a minority to appease their bigot base, what would they be doing?

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 25 points 5 days ago

It won't be interesting to see. People caught up in this will get their lives ruined. Even if they get acquitted, they'll have lost everything.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't there an executive order that said all people must use women's bathrooms?

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Wonder how long until someone tries to install AI gender detectors in restrooms.

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[–] slappyfuck 15 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Man, I did not know Idaho was so dominated by lunatics.

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