“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”
The people who make these laws completely forget that trans men exist.
I don’t think they care. It’s all about scoring cheap political points
The fact police weren’t even informed about the law says a lot about the priorities
Okay, this is exactly the kind of malicious compliance that I can get behind. Fucking legends.
Wow I love that sign.
I wonder if I could get that as a bumper sticker.
That was the point, they wanted a loss loss situation for trans people.
Almost as though the goal was to criminalize trans people for existing.
That’s the goal of the government but the goal of those neckbeards is to see women naked. Look how happy they are now that they are paid to force women to get naked in front of them.
Bunch of pervs.
What are you trying to say? Cause it’s so vague and unclear that I can’t tell if you’re pro- or anti- trans
Sorry English is not my primary language.
I mean the current government and those who put them in power wish to ban trans and make their life hell.
But the goal of the neckbeards who took the job of policing women’s bathrooms is to harass women into getting naked in front of them.
I went into a bathroom, and there was either a trans or CD person presenting as female using the urinal. It threw me off, and I thought I went into the wrong bathroom for a sec. Took me a second for my brain to realize, wait, that’s a urinal, so I’m definitely in the right place. Because I’m not a piece of shit, I laughed off the awkwardness of seeing a female using a men’s urinal and went about my day, but these conservatives who get all mad about trans women using the women’s room will 100% be just as outraged when they are in the men’s room and see one at a urinal.
Yeah the last time I used a men’s room was basically that scenario, except the guy saw me, went to check the sign, then came back in.
I may have done that too 😂
The point is to put trans people in danger
Was it Mrs. Doubtfire?
THIS is a fucking powerful protest, good work fellas. <3
Fuck all the transphobes. It’s such bullshit and tiring. And I’m a cis white dude, so I don’t have to put up with this shit myself, and it’s still tiring just to hear about it for decades and decades and decades. (Putting up with it is much worse is what I’m saying…)
Mad respect to those that stood up (or… sat down, tee hee hee) in protest. These guys are in the perfect position to make this statement and point out how ridiculous it all is.
Agreed. Pretty clever protest that reveals this was never about “banning the wrong gendered-person from using their preferred bathroom.” It was always “ban the wrong-gendered person”, and the corpo-protecting pigs played right into it.
That and punishing gender nonconforming women, cis and trans. Plenty of “masculine” cis women end up getting treated like criminals too.
As much as I get a little tired of men claiming to be victims of prejudice, though, I do have to admit that this seems to be one of the valid areas (among others). Transphobes are clearly not wanting transwomen in women’s spaces, but then they also don’t want transmen there. You can’t have it both ways, at a minimum.
But I find my brain trying to be sympathetic (to the transphobes’ fear of ‘men’ in women’s spaces, be that transmen or transwomen, they seem to think all of them are “men”) - and I have to say to that part of my brain (that has had decades of transphobia propaganda that I disagree with, but it still gets in the brain - in our culture) “What? No, fuck off. Humans with human rights. Everyone needs to pee. Good grief, just… can we make bathroom stall doors actually private and unisex all the bathrooms? Because who gives a fuck, people need to pee in peace, LET THEM PEE IN PEACE”…
It’s very frustrating living in this culture.
(I’d still argue, btw, that women face FAR more problems with misogyny than men do with misandry - but on the other hand, all misogyny and misandry is wrong, so it’s hard to have nuanced debate sometimes)
Brave dudes! Good shit
First it was the blacks, then more and more people had black friends.
Then it was gays, but more and more families had out gay people.
Now it’s trans people, but this is a passing thing.
Who will these weirdos go after next?
These things pass because we organize, inform and fight. They don’t pass on their own.
Oh, of course they do. But there is more to it than that.
In the 50s not many gay people were out so it was easy for the Christian right to convince the masses they were child molesters and weirdos worthy of hell. By the 80s, Pride and community unity helped people come out of the closet and not be ashamed or afraid to show the world who they were. Lots of people were coming out of the closet and everyone had at least one gay person in their life. Now it’s harder to convince someone that gay people are bad because they’re exposed to more gay people and they see they’re just like everyone else.
The mob is stupid. Awareness alone doesn’t cut it. They need exposure as well.
Women
Trying to find and point out logical gotchas to this hatred are a fools errand; the conservatives don’t care. Their base lacks empathy, so good luck appealing to any sense of decency that they [do not] have.
There needs not be any sort of train-of-thought, other than “Fuck the [derogatory words]”. They use words like “science”, “biology”, and “safety” to cloak their hatred in the appearance of law and order. It’s all a game for them, designed to erase us.
They will absolutely come for the rest of the LGBTQ+ community once we are gone. Obergefell will be next. And unless the establishment democrats grow a spine, or are replaced by progressives that will stand up for us, the steamrolling will continue.
That said, protests like these need to happen, and I commend those brave dudes.
The future is fuckin weird.
