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.
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.
I’d be shocked if Idaho had bathrooms as nice as the picture in the whole state.
“Idaho” can’t be that stupid when it comes to basic logic, unless hateful religion is involved somehow.
So now what? Use the “India method” and use the streets as toilet?
Can we maybe not put down minority groups while trying to support different minorities?
You do know that the India government had to do a campaign to say “poop on the toilet”, right? And 1200 million people is not a minority.
Again, how is a public health campaign relevant to the discussion? You just like taking pot shots for no reason, I don’t post about Americans eating so much processed food we have wheelchairs to get around a grocery store but somehow can’t feed school children.
“Trans people can’t go to the bathroom” -> “will they have to pee on the street?”
Is it clearer now?
The title is a lie. They are still allowed to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender assigned at birth. From the article:
The Idaho House passed legislation that could make it a felony for transgender people to step foot in a bathroom matching their gender identity.
The title isn’t technically true but it is practically true in many cases. What is a post-op trans person supposed to do? They don’t look like the sex they were born as and will surely look out of place if they use the bathroom they’re legally supposed to. It will also lead to trouble for people like me, who are cis but can be mistaken for trans (I’m a woman with facial hair). And what about intersex people?
Oh, I don’t dispute that it is a horrible law! It just doesn’t justify the title lying about it.
Wow at this rate the only transgender bathroom left will be Charlie Kirk’s gravestone.
Give the kid a rest, will ya? He’s already had it up to his neck in gun violence.
Honestly if there were a law where they had to, and it wasn’t a travel inconvenience, I’d support the bill.
You are loved. You are fine the way you are. The world has a place for you. You are not alone.
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.
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.
Moscow Idaho is also still holding out for a bit longer. Lots of trans people going there as a stepping stone to get to Seattle, it’s got Inland Oasis running pride and drag events and doing a lot of work making queer spaces. It is currently being literally invaded by christo fascists so I worry it’s a matter of time but for now at least it’s still a decent place (especially compared to most other parts of Idaho though I know that bar is so low you’d need a shovel to find it). I wish Boise all the best in their resistance
You are love
You are not alone
You are going through hell, but keep going
Be proud, be open
Be loud, be hopeful
Be healthy, be happy
Be kind to yourself
Be decisive
Here, now
Do not live every day as if it is your last
Live every day as if it is your first
Full of wonder and excitement
As you wonder along, excited
Marveling at the possibilities of all that stands before you
Here, now
What the actual fucking fuck? Is it better to piss in the streets? Shit their pants on a crowded bus?
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.
In future MAGAmeriKKKa, we will be a nation of laws, and we will have many more laws than today, and they will be punished harshly. Those who violate the law will be incarcerated in one of the detainment centers being constructed at this moment. Then they will be leased out to corporations as Federal 13th Amendment work Slaves.
Careful. Idaho Republicans could be into it.
Our country sent a cruise missile into a school full of children last week.
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.
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.
It’s true. Plenty of cis women have been harassed by men in women’s bathrooms because the man thought they were trans. How is that acceptable, but using the bathroom for its intended purpose is not?
That’s part of the point. Anybody who steps too far outside the “cultural norm” (read: that one look Republican women all have) will be weeded out of public life as well.
those were the kerens
Now the hot Karens are going to want to see what the MTG-look’s Karens are packing.
Honestly the fastest way to kill this would be to report everyone in as many locations for as long as possible, gum up the works until no one responds
We need seperate bathrooms for MAGA, I don’t feel comfortable sharing a bathroom with them as they are peeping toms and pedophile supporters.
pedophile supporters
You can reduce your character count by removing the unnecessary ‘upporters’.
Well, not all of them are. In particular, not all are sexual criminals.
But all of them see no problem with either.
We need a separate planet for MAGA.
I vote for Mercury or Venus.
Mm, still too close!
But Venus can take care of that. 400C and 60 atmospheres of pressure.
pedophile supporters.
G.O.P. - Guardians of Pedophiles
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.
The U.S. constitution is so old that the writers didn’t see it being a problem (presumably) to not have an explicit right to bodily autonomy.
Brother I hate to be the bearer of bad news
John Adams’s wife, Abigail, wrote him a letter when he was off with the boys at the Continental Congress. She was picking a bone about the lack of protections given to women from their husbands and likened the relationship to that of the colonies and Britain. She was suggesting women should be codified to have more rights. He wrote back something like, “As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh.”
The founding fathers were just as misogynistic as any MAGA fuckhead.
Yes men were like that 240 years ago
Many still are
She was suggesting women should be codified to have more rights. He wrote back something like, “As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh.”
Now I’m curious what rights she felt they should be codified to have.
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.
I’m scared of laws like this because I’m a cis woman and I have natural facial hair
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.
The goal is far greater than that. Cis people, and especially cis women, are going to be deliberately caught up in this, not accidentally. Once the sheep have been convinced that trans people are irredeemably evil, watch as the definition of “trans” expands ever-outward. Are you a woman that wears pants? That sounds like cross-dressing to me. Oh, you want to work a job like engineering? Learn to appreciate your biological sex, you transgender freak! Stop pretending to be a man and get a career appropriate to your biological sex.
I cant wait for all the CIS conservatives who inevitably get arrested/genital inspected
The way these organizations operate, you tend to have coordinated groups of TERF brownshirts barging into public spaces and harassing strangers with the support of the church, the majority party, and law enforcement.
If a few Republican lay-voters get swept up in the dragnet, who cares? Idaho is one of the reddest states in the country. Nobody is going to shed a tear for the 6’ tall post-menopausal country mama who gets pepper sprayed by a crack team of transvestigators, because they’ll just relabel her as Far-Left when she objects to rough treatment.
The point of these pogroms is to juice up the partisan insiders and ready them for a wider conflict. A bit of friendly fire is a small price to pay for the libidinal joy of violently oppressing your neighbors, while getting tons of updoots on social media.
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?
Clearly, this is the most important issue impacting your typical working American family today.
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.
Megyn Kelly is a monster. She is working really hard to be Laura Ingraham, a vile thing.
I have this nice blue piece of plastic that allows me to go in whichever bathroom I please under federal law in statesia, and bring a friend of any gender I choose. I am curious how that will work with Idaho’s law, and willing to risk a felony for it if someone will pay transport and coffee
What’s this blue piece of plastic that you possess?!
Probably a handicap placard.
yup!
I thought handicap placards were for parking cars. I never heard of someone using them to bring a friend into the other gender’s bathroom.
mostly that. it’s a quick “i’m disabled i get to do this thing” and using the handicapped stall in any bathroom is one of those things. the “friend” is supposed to be my caretaker, but y’know
Some gendered bathrooms are for one person at a time. I’ve never understood that…there’s not even a rapey trans boogeyman angle there.
I got the restrooms at a previous job changed to employee and customer instead of gendered. They were single occupancy already and my suggestion was passed unanimously by my coworkers.
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.
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!
The coolest bathroom experience I have ever had was when I attended my sister’s graduation ceremony from university.
There was a white tie dinner party after the ceremony, and every one was dressed up, it was a super happy and friendly atmosphere, full of beautiful men and women.
Anyway, I had to go to the toilet, so I found the men’s room and opened the door…
…and immediately got confused…
…the first thing I saw was a beautiful woman in a crowd of other beautiful men and women!
The party kept going!
And the most remarkable thing was that the wall between the women’s and men’s rooms wasn’t there.
Instead there was a really cool central sink and booths on either side.
It was brilliant!
Thank you for sharing that story; I had a similar dream just a few months ago! But in my dream, some “premium” stalls had bidets in them, and the stalls were floor to ceiling with relaxing music playing inside, so I got to enjoy the most relaxing public poop ever! I’m honestly surprised that I didn’t piss the bed with a dream like that…
Only pedophiles would think about children’s dicks as much as Republicans do.
