The NINTH CIRCUIT ruled that way!?! WTF!?!
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This is absolute bullshit, on so many levels.
Womensâ bathrooms have stalls with doors (and usually locks, though they may not always work), so assuming theyâre used as intended, there shouldnât be partially-dressed people or genital exposure for anybody to worry about. Itâs a false premise from the start.
Locker rooms are a somewhat different story, I suppose, but as a shy, body-conscious person I typically faced the wall or the corner, ignored everyone else around me, and assumed they were granting me the same courtesy. I did that as an adult, too, when I worked out at the gym. It was always a little uncomfortable, because of my self-consciousness, but that strategy worked well enough for me.
(The only time I ever experienced difficulties was back in grade school, when a few bullies liked to peek over the walls or through the crack of the door as a harrassment tactic; as far as I know they were cis girls, like me.)
Itâs an extremely irrational excuse to dehumanize and take rights away from an extremely small minority group-- and we all know it wonât stop there. Itâs garbage and itâs hateful and itâs unjust and itâs WRONG, and I cannot understand how so many people canât see that.
What do we do to stop this???
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We all know Wes Quisling wonât listen to us, so I expect this to become NHS policy.
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the political right is angry at the idea that other types of people exist in the world
This sums it up beautifully. They are all butt-hurt because people who are not rich white men have gotten a little respect. Not even what they are due. But that little bit pushed them right over the edge. And replacing every racial, sexual and gendered slur with âDEIâ does not make it better.
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You know, Iâm not quite sure I agree. The public power of the political right depends on the existence of other types of people. Their power derives from Othering these groups so profoundly that they drive the majority to rally behind them through invented fear. The popular right sees others as something to be fearful of and angry about, because the political right sees those same others as a means to consolidate power.
(ETA: This doesnât discount that the political right also hates the other people. But if they didnât have someone to Other, their power agenda would necessitate that they create one. And, well, here we are.)
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Absolutely. Trump finds it very useful to scapegoat trans people and âDEIâ as an attempt to distract people from the fact that he is an incompetent, selfish fraud with no useful ideas, who canât actually fix the economy like he promised.
I have some hope that he has finally pushed this too far where people realize theyâve been played. This is part of why it makes me angry that Democrats arenât generally standing up for trans rights in this moment, because this seems like a good time to show how morally bankrupt and unscientific transphobia is, along with all the other ways MAGA is discrediting itself.
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I have to admit I have never seen an episode of Drag Race, US or UK. Everything I know about is is from other people.
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I was having this discussion with my friend last evening; when do you know that itâs time to go? How do you know? Heâs a trans guy with a spouse and kid. And that kid has some special needs- so uprooting is even more fraught.
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If this is the bullshit path youâre going to take, why only test women? (Yeah, I know, because transphobia and misogyny are identical twins.) It also occurs to me that most people never have any sort of chromosome typing, so how would this work when they find how common it is for people to not fit into the XX / XY split?
Iâm in my 50âs, I have no children, and Iâm stubborn as hell. Iâm not leaving or even going into hiding. I am quite aware of how much that puts me in danger. My nesting partner and I (and our mutual partner that lives with us about one week out of the month) have talked it over and weâre willing to take the risk, if only so others know theyâre not alone.
If I had children? If either of those partners wanted to pack up and go? That would be a completely different story and if I wasnât already gone Iâd be finalizing our travel plans now instead of wondering when we should go.
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Same here; while Iâm not quite as old, I have planted roots and I have zero intention of moving, and frankly, Iâll die before detransitioning.
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I donât think I could detransition. Certainly not without a fair amount of surgery.
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If transphobes make our existence illegal then they will open up possibilities for us that werenât acceptable before they destroyed the social contract with us. Iâll look into those possibilities before I die.
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For what itâs worth:
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