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Texas bill passes commitee to restrict Transgender bathroom access.

joG said:
If the transgender folks hadn't made such an ado about it, we wouldn't have to have transgender toilet laws.
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FUnny thing, as far as I see, they didn't.. but people had to be distracted from real issues.
 
joG said:
If the transgender folks hadn't made such an ado about it, we wouldn't have to have transgender toilet laws.
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Yeah, if they'd just shut up and gone into the bathroom we demand they go into, they would have stopped getting accosted.
 
joG said:
If the transgender folks hadn't made such an ado about it, we wouldn't have to have transgender toilet laws.
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It was, actually, anti-trans bigots who started this whole problem.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
It was, actually, anti-trans bigots who started this whole problem.
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You mean, because they complained that people pretending to be girls were entering the girls' safe spaces? I would have thought the entry was a calculated and bigoted imposition on the girls' privacy and probably highly disturbing to the girls. That is why they were upset.

That doesn't mean I care one way or the other. I've gone to girls' restrooms if it was necessary and would have no problem with girls going to men's. But I do find the forceful imposition to make a point distasteful. While I was very much pro gay etc rights before, the in your face impositions on other persons' rights go way beyond anything tolerable.
 
The bill would require people to use restrooms that correspond with the gender on their birth certificate, not the gender with which they identify.
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So how exactly is this going to be enforced ????

Anyone in Texas that wishes to pee in a public restroom, must first provide a valid birth certificate to a law enforcement official stationed just outside each and every toilet stall or urinal?
 
RAMOSS said:
FUnny thing, as far as I see, they didn't.. but people had to be distracted from real issues.
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They didn't? In high schools they most definitely did. Frankly transsexuals only have themselves to blame. No one but them decided to get treatments to attempt to pass off as the opposite sex and last time I checked I don't have to accept other peoples choices or their declarations on what those choices mean.
 
Dragonfly said:
So how exactly is this going to be enforced ????

Anyone in Texas that wishes to pee in a public restroom, must first provide a valid birth certificate to a law enforcement official stationed just outside each and every toilet stall or urinal?
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You could just have people ask personal in the store if they can use the bathroom and then have the personal provide the means to enter the room that matches the individuals papers. Yes, I suppose it does mean you need your birth certificate , but plenty of things these days requires people have certain documents, so I don't think that is a valid complaint in this country.
 
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Henrin said:
You could just have people ask personal in the store if they can use the bathroom and then have the personal provide the means to enter the room that matches the individuals papers. Yes, I suppose it does mean you need your birth certificate , but plenty of things these days requires people have certain documents, so I don't think that is a valid complaint in this country.
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The libertarian approves of a measure requiring a birth certificate on one's person to receive permission to go to the bathroom.
 
Deuce said:
The libertarian approves of a measure requiring a birth certificate on one's person to receive permission to go to the bathroom.
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I never said I approved of it. What I said is that I'm not sure how complaining about requiring papers to go to the bathroom is a valid complaint in a country that requires papers to do all sorts of activities. Is it somehow more valid to require a forty year old to get carded when buying alcohol? If so, why?
 
joG said:
If the transgender folks hadn't made such an ado about it, we wouldn't have to have transgender toilet laws.
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I wonder if this was stirred up by the transgenders themselves rather than left wing grievance merchants.
 
SDET said:
I wonder if this was stirred up by the transgenders themselves rather than left wing grievance merchants.
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A little of both I would say. What the left like to do is claim these kind of things are done to fight some right wing cultural war when in reality it is a response to a cultural war the left started.
 
Deuce said:
Yeah, if they'd just shut up and gone into the bathroom we demand they go into, they would have stopped getting accosted.
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I'm starting to be okay with men in dresses going into the women's restroom. I really don't care to see that.
 
Dan Patrick wants the bill to pass; Joe Straus does not.

Accordingly it getting out of this Senate committee was expected. The Senate passing it is expected. The House passing it would be newsworthy and surprising.

That said since it only refers to bathrooms on public property in the state, and not private businesses which can set their own policy, :shrug:.

I see no reason to care if it did pass.
 
Henrin said:
I never said I approved of it. What I said is that I'm not sure how complaining about requiring papers to go to the bathroom is a valid complaint in a country that requires papers to do all sorts of activities. Is it somehow more valid to require a forty year old to get carded when buying alcohol? If so, why?
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Because a delay in purchasing alcohol doesn't result in people ****ting on the floor, how's that for a difference?
 
joG said:
If the transgender folks hadn't made such an ado about it, we wouldn't have to have transgender toilet laws.
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Greetings, joG. :2wave:

I wonder if people are now going to remove the bathroom doors in their homes - I mean if you can take care of your body functions around who knows what sex strangers in restrooms at the mall, why should family be a problem in your own home, right? :thumbdown: No wonder big box stores are losing business and closing, and people are losing their jobs as a result; it's less headache to shoppers to just order stuff online and have it delivered to their home than to deal with this latest bright idea nonsense! I believe Obama was basically anti-business - as his EPA constantly proved - but did he really have to go this far to accommodate such a tiny percentage of people? :beam:
 
Deuce said:
Yeah, if they'd just shut up and gone into the bathroom we demand they go into, they would have stopped getting accosted.
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Crashing the girls' safe space is cool, you think? ;)
 
Deuce said:
Yeah, if they'd just shut up and gone into the bathroom we demand they go into, they would have stopped getting accosted.
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Just curious, what is the legal definition of being transgender?
 
joG said:
Crashing the girls' safe space is cool, you think? ;)
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Are there even any documented cases of a mtf transgender person molesting a child in a womens' room?

Do you think a child molester gives a crap what's on a sign?

And why do you not care if male children have their space invaded?
 
polgara said:
Greetings, joG. :2wave:

I wonder if people are now going to remove the bathroom doors in their homes - I mean if you can take care of your body functions around who knows what sex strangers in restrooms at the mall, why should family be a problem in your own home, right? :thumbdown: No wonder big box stores are losing business and closing, and people are losing their jobs as a result; it's less headache to shoppers to just order stuff online and have it delivered to their home than to deal with this latest bright idea nonsense! I believe Obama was basically anti-business - as his EPA constantly proved - but did he really have to go this far to accommodate such a tiny percentage of people? :beam:
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I am not sure that Obama understood he was being so destructive to society and simply thought of "big business " the way leftist demonstrators do without ever really having thought about it.
 
joG said:
I am not sure that Obama understood he was being so destructive to society and simply thought of "big business " the way leftist demonstrators do without ever really having thought about it.
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Wait, you guys think big box stores are losing business to Amazon et al because of Obama and his LGBT policies?

:lamo
 
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