Mississippi bill allows transgender people to be sued for using 'wrong' bathroom

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https://www.wlbt.com/2024/05/03/mississippi-republicans-revive-bill-regulate-transgender-bathroom-use-schools/

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippis Republican-led Legislature completed a last-ditch effort Thursday to revive a bill to regulate transgender peoples use of bathrooms, locker rooms, and dormitories in public education buildings.

People would only be allowed to enter spaces that correspond to their sex assigned at birth, regardless of their appearance or any procedures theyve had to affirm their gender identity. Those who violate the policy could be sued, but schools, colleges, and universities would be protected from liability.

Another proposal failed this year that would have denied the legal recognition of transgender people by writing into law that there are only two sexes, and every individual is either male or female.

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shithole red states are the worst tbh
CADE_FOSTER posted...
shithole red states are the worst tbh

With Mississippi being the worst of the worst.
Can't expand Medicaid, but can do this. Fuck my shit hole of a state.

I will make me obligatory comment that not everyone from MS is a POS conservative.
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So a trans man using a woman's bathroom is going to be ok with them and not awkward at all?
Southernfatman posted...
Can't expand Medicaid, but can do this. Fuck my shit hole of a state.

I will make me obligatory comment that not everyone from MS is a POS conservative.
They dont care about poor people just identity politics
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lolife67 posted...
So a trans man using a woman's bathroom is going to be ok with them and not awkward at all?

they always forget trans men even exist when they write these bills
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Who will be the one suing them? The State?
It takes zero effort to be a good person.
bigblu89 posted...
Who will be the one suing them? The State?

Citizens. It's basically the transgender equivalent to Texas' abortion bounty bill.
From the article:

One of those women was Anja Baker, a member of the Mississippi Federation of Republican Women from the Jackson suburb of Rankin County. Baker said she works with social service providers and was concerned women would be crowded out of spaces they rely on.

They only have so many resources, and they need to have their locations and resources protected for the women that need them instead of getting caught in a game of identity politics, Baker said.

They seriously have no idea that Trans Men exist, do they?

This is all about this fake fear that straight men are going to throw on dresses and bumrush women's locker rooms, searching for women to rape.
It takes zero effort to be a good person.
The south is seriously like 200 years in the past.
Aren't you allowed to sue anyone for anything? What was stopping shitheads from being able to do this before?
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thronedfire2 posted...
they always forget trans men even exist when they write these bills
It certainly seems that way.
Sandalorn posted...
The south is seriously like 2000 years in the past.

lolife67 posted...
It certainly seems that way.
They seriously prefer to have full on post-op trans men using the women's room before they want every citizen to use the bathroom they're most comfortable with.

New York has MORE than it's fair share of problems, but I don't know how anyone lives in these states.
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Sandalorn posted...
The south is seriously like 200 years in the past.
They do have a pretty Old Testament view of the world.
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LOL wut? I accidentally walked into a women's bathroom the other day due to a vague sign, I guess I'm committing a crime now :(
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lolife67 posted...
So a trans man using a woman's bathroom is going to be ok with them and not awkward at all?
Of course not. Those men will be forced to choose between being assaulted as a creep or sued.

By design.
mybbqrules posted...
"DUUUURRR DERE'S NO SUCH FING AS TRANS GENOCIDE, DUUUURRRRR." -way too many dumb fucking right wingers.
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thronedfire2 posted...
they always forget trans men even exist when they write these bills
I'd bank on being very aware. The people who argue for these bills might forget but the people writing them don't get that ever so slim benefit.
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bigblu89 posted...
From the article:

They seriously have no idea that Trans Men exist, do they?

This is all about this fake fear that straight men are going to throw on dresses and bumrush women's locker rooms, searching for women to rape.

That's their number 1 idiotic point.

If you're "biologically male" and you are trans all you want is to assault women and girls. It's their whole shtick.

It has absolutely 0 basis but they know their voter base are equally as stupid.
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Strider102 posted...
That's their number 1 idiotic point.

If you're "biologically male" and you are trans all you want is to assault women and girls. It's their whole shtick.

It has absolutely 0 basis but they know their voter base are equally as stupid.
And when you bring up that these bills will increase physical and sexual assaults against trams individuals they say you're the one fearmongering as the cower in fear of a boogie man of their own fabrication.
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GranAures posted...
And when you bring up that these bills will increase physical and sexual assaults against trams individuals they say you're the one fearmongering as the cower in fear of a boogie man of their own fabrication.
No, they'll just say that's the point because trans people aren't actual people, because jesus wrote it in the bible.
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bigblu89 posted...
They seriously have no idea that Trans Men exist, do they?

This is all about this fake fear that straight men are going to throw on dresses and bumrush women's locker rooms, searching for women to rape.

It was the same ignorant reaction when the Boy Scouts wanted to allow girls to join. They were convinced Scout leaders would be unable to control themselves around little girls. They were also convinced that all pedophiles are straight.

"The Scout leader is probably a pedophile, but there's no way he's a gay pedophile, so where do I sign my son up?"
That is, unfortunately, an equally likely scenario, Clay.
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The direct goal of these bathroom bills is to remove us from being able to exist in public spaces.

It's a step towards legalizing trans elimination (more than it already is)
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bigblu89 posted...
They seriously have no idea that Trans Men exist, do they?

These assholes never do. Their only perception of trans people is 'man in a dress' and the only reason they're so worked up over that is because they're afraid of being 'tricked'.

And a quick Google search, yep the Trans Panic defense is apparently legal there too.

Which is, of course, another kettle of bullshit.
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I would so open a bar that cators to republican voters (maybe even go so far as to make it MAGA themed), have gender neutral bathrooms, and then sue the ever-loving shit out of anyone who used them.
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lolife67 posted...
So a trans man using a woman's bathroom is going to be ok with them and not awkward at all?

No they won't be. That's the point. They are trying to erase us from public life because trans people will just spend less time out in public.
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Eat_More_Beef posted...
I would so open a bar that cators to republican voters (maybe even go so far as to make it MAGA themed), have gender neutral bathrooms, and then sue the ever-loving shit out of anyone who used them.
"But were you assigned sexless at birth? No? Lawsuit!"

Unfortunately probably wouldn't fly but this kind of malicious compliance with the brand of bullshit they try to push should happen more.
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GranAures posted...
"But were you assigned sexless at birth? No? Lawsuit!"

Unfortunately probably wouldn't fly but this kind of malicious compliance with the brand of bullshit they try to push should happen more.

Obviously. The court would unironically call it a frivolous lawsuit while letting dick bags fuck with trans-people's rights.
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Bathroom bills are ALWAYS designed to make it so trans people can use NEITHER bathroom
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Strider102 posted...
That's their number 1 idiotic point.

If you're "biologically male" and you are trans all you want is to assault women and girls. It's their whole shtick.

It has absolutely 0 basis but they know their voter base are equally as stupid.
These republicans have biologically stupid politics
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thronedfire2 posted...
they always forget trans men even exist when they write these bills

I don't think they do. I think they just ignore it because it will have the intended consequences of a man going into a woman's bathroom and all the douche canoes calling them a creepy pervert and start an altercation potentially leading to violence.
Rage is a hell of an anesthetic.
shockthemonkey posted...
Lawmakers forget trans men exist because they dont watch porn with them in it.

That they know of.
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This won't affect trans people who pass as much as it will effect men and women who don't conform to traditional gender standards.
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Euripides posted...
Bathroom bills are ALWAYS designed to make it so trans people can use NEITHER bathroom
tbh it's not like trans people could really use either one regardless

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creativerealms posted...
This won't affect trans people who pass as much as it will effect men and women who don't conform to traditional gender standards.
Yes, many cisgendered people will be harassed by this as well courtesy of the "WCAT" Brigade. Another failing the people that support them miss/ignore.
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creativerealms posted...
This won't affect trans people who pass as much as it will effect men and women who don't conform to traditional gender standards.

That too. Seems those stories always pop up to the surprise of no one after these bills get passed. Where a "real" woman gets assaulted because dick hats think she's really a man and using the wrong bathroom.
Rage is a hell of an anesthetic.
creativerealms posted...
This won't affect trans people who pass as much as it will effect men and women who don't conform to traditional gender standards.

Yep. We recently saw someone in Utah calling for an athletic high school girl to be banned from sports because she was "obviously" a man.
Sandalorn posted...
The south is seriously like 200 years in the past.
The world stopped for them when they lost the Civil War. They haven't gotten over that hump yet. It's why you still see "the south will rise again" bullshit.
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Mississippi...the state that brought down Roe v Wade not wading into the trans rights question i see...
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"DUUUURRR DERE'S NO SUCH FING AS TRANS GENOCIDE, DUUUURRRRR." -way too many dumb fucking right wingers.

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