Using a bathroom in Texas that matches your birth gender would lead to a lot of violence by those macho men against transgendered women, thinking of Jenner here, because the macho Texas men would happily wail on her since she still looks somewhat male but is dressing as a female.
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So the NEXT time âpeopleâ ask how much bigotry costsâŚwe have an answer!
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Republicans: The Pro-Business Party.
âI had no idea when I voted for the Burning Other Peopleâs Money Party, that theyâd burn MY money!â
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Yup. Itâs all about exclusion, intimidation and dehumanization, and the message is an age-old one: âyou are not equal, you are not welcome, you are The Other.â We have a long way to go.
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What pisses me off most is that HB2 did NOTHING to make it safer for women and children in restrooms. What it did do was make some people think that trans folks are aggressors in restrooms when they are just there to do what everyone else does in bathrooms, and it takes the eye of law enforcement and the public away from the predator men that do prey on women and children.
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it also helps the film industry is getting more international (even if representation is still narrow in Hollywood). If weâre just going by religion though, yes itâs gone down. Sharply:
As such the film industry sees no need to pander to an increasingly narrow audience when they can make money with a wider one. Itâs why the âboycottsâ for stuff like Rogue One flopped
God will send us twice that amount for keeping the preverts out of the bathrooms!
So much government regulation, costing the taxpayers so much money! Someone needs to drain that swamp there in North Carolina!
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They were trying it on here in Tennessee, tooâbut the state Senate maneuvered it into oblivion, at least temporarily.
But far-right judgmental assholes never stop being who they areâso there is a good chance that this idiocy will be tried again, because the right-wingers never tire of trying to impose their narrow and bigoted beliefs on the rest of us.
Hopefully the same fate awaits Texasâ Gov Greg Abbott, Lt Gov Dan Patrick and AG Bill Paxton.
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Whereâs the NC Freedom Caucus when you need it?!? We need freedom from all of this government environmental regulation of our public bathrooms!
OMG! Somebody light a match! Please!!! The Republicans really let loose a foul one!
NC in the Championship Basketball Game vs SCâŚWonder how much NC would be making had the championship game been held in-stateâŚ
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WellâŚthatâs because old Walt is still waiting around in his ice cube. He was extremely conservative and very authoritarian business wise. I read a bio of him once, very cringe worthy.
Simple question: How many TPM readers carry their birth certificates around with them?
Do these simple-minded lawmakers want to hire moniters to check birth certificates at the doors, or can you just bring it in once and have your gender at birth tattooed on your arm, kinda like they did in Germany?
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What I love about the Texas Sentateâs own attempt at bathroom insanity is that idiot Lt. Guv. Patrick poopooâs all the economic info out of NC, saying it is basically fake news, while the very conservative business establishment is even against this bill because they ainât stupid. I wish Jerry Jones would just smack Patrick in the face and tell him to sit down. He may be the only person who can penetrate that thick skull.
Is 12 years a standard unit of cost projections? It sound kind of random to me. Why not just say $300 million / year?
Virginia is for lovers ! OBX for Hater ?
Wingnuts: Thats a very very small price to pay to continue our White Jesus approved Bigoted lifestyle.
Ryan: We can cover this by simply providing more tax cuts. White people can hate for free.
This story is from about 2003 when I had a friend who was a post-operative male to female transsexual. She was attending the National Western Stock Show in Denver and in fact was one of the eventâs volunteers. As you can imagine the attendance at this event is rather conservative politically and culturally (think rural and cowboy). While using the womenâs rest room one day she was confronted by a middle-aged woman who was certain that she was a man dressed in womenâs clothing. After considerable argumentation, the middle-aged woman called the police who arrived to asked for my friendâs driverâs license. As the driverâs license had been changed to reflect the correct gender, the policeman told the other woman she had no legitimate complaint. However, my friendâwho was on the nervy sideâwas not content with that degree of vindication and decided to pull down her pants to show the other woman her expertly reconstructed genitalia. The complaining woman fled in haste.
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Canât wait until liberals get control of this âbig governmentâ power that conservatives are comfortable with.