Another day, another fresh new level of hell to uncover.
If you’d like to focus some love towards supporting and uplifting 2 trans Girl Scouts, I’ve got 2 on Erin’s list still trying to reach their cookie goals -
Crazy and punative as these bans are. I believe they are all ultimately unenforceable. What, are all women going to be required to carry their birth certificates with them. Mine says I was born female. Or will all women be required to drop trow or lift skirt. In which case, what of those of us who have had bottom surgery?
There are different types of attacks against marginalized communities: direct legislative, economic pressure and exclusion, psychological attack, denial of personhood, and stochastic violence. Legislations like this are based in psychological attack, denial of personhood, and stochastic violence.
They are meant to make trans people in that state feel afraid, secluded, and ashamed by excluding trans people from public facilities. They make trans people lesser than by denying them equal treatment. They are also meant to legitimate stochastic vigilante attacks on trans individuals by normalizing punitive treatments through state sanctions.
That's why Lemkin just came out with a genocide warning for the US on transgender individuals. Laws like this is what it is, plain and simple. The lamentable part is, not many people know about it. Even amongst allies, it's a little known fact about what's happening.
And do they want trans men using the women’s room? Or maybe they just hope trans men will break the law and risk jail time?
As this accelerates, we can hope (maybe?) that others wake up to the 250 year old truth that rights are being limited by the majority instead of guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. We all know it.
I’m not betting on it. I keep dropping seeds in the comments sections of my Substack subscriptions and restack posts that spell out what’s happening. And tell (some of) my neighbors.
There’s a line in William Stafford’s poem, “A Ritual to Read to Each Other”:
I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
To know what occurs but not recognize the fact.
I’m new to this community and I’m so grateful to have found you! Thanks to Heather Cox Richardson for citing EITM in her post a few weeks ago.
"The bill, HB 752", is likely to pass, however I hope not.
I recall this is as open a conspiracy against the individual inherent human rights of US citizens as was Jim Crow -- the people engineering, funding, and carrying out the propaganda campaign and enacting the laws and policies against transgender people must face 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 18 U.S.C. § 241, & 18 U.S.C. § 242 prosecution.
Well, besides Iranian schoolgirls and Palestinian refugees… oh, and anyone who looks like they might be an immigrant. But yes. This is not where it ends.
Maybe millions of cis people, all over this nation--but especially in the red states--just need to start using whatever bathroom takes our fancy in the moment and hopefully, all those transphobes would get over themselves really quickly. This whole country should move to unisex bathrooms. This is the most non-issue I have ever seen legislators waste their time on. It is simply, and solely, for cruelty. There is no criminal data or legal reasons driving this sordid legislation. Shame on every legislator who has voted on any one of these bills. Let's all work, in our respective states, to ensure they are voted out of office.
Ugh. This is nuts. This makes it safer for me to pee or ppop on the floor outside the restroom than to use the restroom facilities. What a bunch of cowardly ignoramuses. Someday this madness will come to an end. Perhaps when Barron Trump announces that he's trans.
Oh, I think you misunderstood, but I really appreciate your concern. I meant that if I were thrown into a men's prison with a 5-year sentence, I would kill myself, rather than endure 5 years of being raped and abused as someone's prison wife. That said, I picked the third door, which was to leave the country. I'm a newly minted European. Fuck these fascists! I intend to live. ;-)
The way this bill is wrote would throw a bunch of cis women in prison for 5 years. What about venues that draw a bunch of women and they take over the men’s restrooms. I think of like Taylor Swift concerts. On second thought they would want to throw Swifties in jail because of their political beliefs. Well they “knowingly enter a men’s restroom”. In Taylor Swift”s case she may no longer take her concerts to states with these extreme laws since you can not guarantee the safety of the fans.
Idaho’s HB752 crosses a dangerous line — going even further than similar bills pushed in Kansas and Missouri by Republican-controlled legislatures.
This legislation is not just misguided policy; it is reprehensible, immoral, and fundamentally cruel.
It targets vulnerable people for political gain, weaponizes government power against personal freedom, and sends a chilling message about who is considered worthy of dignity and protection under the law.
Let’s be clear: this is absolutely f**king wrong on so many levels. Laws should protect people, not punish them for who they are.
History will not look kindly on those who chose fear and division over humanity and basic rights.
I want to know which perverted police officer is going to determine who is using the wrong bathroom - if that becomes the case I want to see his or her picture posted in the newspaper and on the national news
Another day, another fresh new level of hell to uncover.
If you’d like to focus some love towards supporting and uplifting 2 trans Girl Scouts, I’ve got 2 on Erin’s list still trying to reach their cookie goals -
https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/steele757911
https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/armando152892
Crazy and punative as these bans are. I believe they are all ultimately unenforceable. What, are all women going to be required to carry their birth certificates with them. Mine says I was born female. Or will all women be required to drop trow or lift skirt. In which case, what of those of us who have had bottom surgery?
There are different types of attacks against marginalized communities: direct legislative, economic pressure and exclusion, psychological attack, denial of personhood, and stochastic violence. Legislations like this are based in psychological attack, denial of personhood, and stochastic violence.
They are meant to make trans people in that state feel afraid, secluded, and ashamed by excluding trans people from public facilities. They make trans people lesser than by denying them equal treatment. They are also meant to legitimate stochastic vigilante attacks on trans individuals by normalizing punitive treatments through state sanctions.
That's why Lemkin just came out with a genocide warning for the US on transgender individuals. Laws like this is what it is, plain and simple. The lamentable part is, not many people know about it. Even amongst allies, it's a little known fact about what's happening.
And do they want trans men using the women’s room? Or maybe they just hope trans men will break the law and risk jail time?
As this accelerates, we can hope (maybe?) that others wake up to the 250 year old truth that rights are being limited by the majority instead of guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. We all know it.
I’m not betting on it. I keep dropping seeds in the comments sections of my Substack subscriptions and restack posts that spell out what’s happening. And tell (some of) my neighbors.
There’s a line in William Stafford’s poem, “A Ritual to Read to Each Other”:
I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
To know what occurs but not recognize the fact.
I’m new to this community and I’m so grateful to have found you! Thanks to Heather Cox Richardson for citing EITM in her post a few weeks ago.
"we can always tell"
Like hell they can.
"The bill, HB 752", is likely to pass, however I hope not.
I recall this is as open a conspiracy against the individual inherent human rights of US citizens as was Jim Crow -- the people engineering, funding, and carrying out the propaganda campaign and enacting the laws and policies against transgender people must face 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 18 U.S.C. § 241, & 18 U.S.C. § 242 prosecution.
It needs to be a Dem party platform plank.
How many of these monsters have ever met a fucking transwoman, let alone been harassed by one in the bathroom? Probably the same number. Zero.
You think a potato boycott would be effective?
More insane cruelty from a party that focuses all of its time on hurting vulnerable people and doing absolutely nothing to make anyone's life better.
Like the Nazis these people want a genocide… of transgender people
I’m sure they are only the first group to face MAGA genocide.
Well, besides Iranian schoolgirls and Palestinian refugees… oh, and anyone who looks like they might be an immigrant. But yes. This is not where it ends.
Maybe millions of cis people, all over this nation--but especially in the red states--just need to start using whatever bathroom takes our fancy in the moment and hopefully, all those transphobes would get over themselves really quickly. This whole country should move to unisex bathrooms. This is the most non-issue I have ever seen legislators waste their time on. It is simply, and solely, for cruelty. There is no criminal data or legal reasons driving this sordid legislation. Shame on every legislator who has voted on any one of these bills. Let's all work, in our respective states, to ensure they are voted out of office.
Ugh. This is nuts. This makes it safer for me to pee or ppop on the floor outside the restroom than to use the restroom facilities. What a bunch of cowardly ignoramuses. Someday this madness will come to an end. Perhaps when Barron Trump announces that he's trans.
It wouldn’t make any difference. His daughter and son-in-law are Jewish, and he’s still an antisemistic creep.
"Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an [Idaho cop]."
This is truly unforgivable. There is no more deserving state than Idaho for my shit and piss.
Presumably the good folks of Idaho would then jail such convicted transgender people in the WRONG prison.
Yep, that's the idea. I would sooner kill myself.
please don't even think of that as an alternative. We need you in the fight. you are loved.
Oh, I think you misunderstood, but I really appreciate your concern. I meant that if I were thrown into a men's prison with a 5-year sentence, I would kill myself, rather than endure 5 years of being raped and abused as someone's prison wife. That said, I picked the third door, which was to leave the country. I'm a newly minted European. Fuck these fascists! I intend to live. ;-)
That's the point of the law.
I assume they will make money off of it...
The way this bill is wrote would throw a bunch of cis women in prison for 5 years. What about venues that draw a bunch of women and they take over the men’s restrooms. I think of like Taylor Swift concerts. On second thought they would want to throw Swifties in jail because of their political beliefs. Well they “knowingly enter a men’s restroom”. In Taylor Swift”s case she may no longer take her concerts to states with these extreme laws since you can not guarantee the safety of the fans.
One step closer to the Project 2025 aspiration that we all go to prison.
Idaho’s HB752 crosses a dangerous line — going even further than similar bills pushed in Kansas and Missouri by Republican-controlled legislatures.
This legislation is not just misguided policy; it is reprehensible, immoral, and fundamentally cruel.
It targets vulnerable people for political gain, weaponizes government power against personal freedom, and sends a chilling message about who is considered worthy of dignity and protection under the law.
Let’s be clear: this is absolutely f**king wrong on so many levels. Laws should protect people, not punish them for who they are.
History will not look kindly on those who chose fear and division over humanity and basic rights.
I want to know which perverted police officer is going to determine who is using the wrong bathroom - if that becomes the case I want to see his or her picture posted in the newspaper and on the national news
lets hope the senate in Idaho has more morality
What the actual?!?!? This is beyond cruel and unusual punishment.
Sad - how easy it is for these ignorants to play with people's lives for political gain. Absurd.