Last month, Kansas passed a bathroom bounty bill that could target private businesses. Now, Idaho will hear a similar bill that is more explicit that private businesses are also impacted.
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.
And some of those impact private citizens.
"In Indiana, HB 1198 would apply to any public restroom—whether privately owned or government-run—and would establish criminal penalties for anyone who “knowingly or intentionally enters a restroom that is designated to be used” by someone of a different assigned sex at birth."
And visibly intersex people are now under the bus with us.
Since being transgender is literally an intersex condition in the sense of being physically atypical in sexually dimorphic anatomy, there is no logical distinction to be drawn between "carveouts" to such laws that protect the visibly intersex and those carveouts applying as well to us. Those who have merely "soft science" philosophical objections to the biological foundation of our being transgender should feel obligated to gin up something persuasive and quick which justifies their views as being logically rigorous and consistent with measured reality, clinical results, and being self consistent.
Would be interesting to see the Democratic governor issue an executive order prohibiting enforcement of the law, or something like that. Tie up the Republicans in court for years.
Across this country — from North Carolina to Florida to Kansas — lawmakers have pushed a coordinated wave of bathroom-restriction bills that are not about privacy or safety.
They are about control, exclusion, and stripping basic civil liberties from transgender Americans.
In North Carolina, House Bill 2 forced every person in public buildings to use the bathroom corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate. It wasn’t just a bathroom policy — it was a message: your existence is a political problem, your body is a threat. It brought national backlash, economic boycotts, and damaging national headlines because the world recognized what it was — discrimination codified into law.
In Florida, House Bill 1521 similarly embeds bathroom policing into state law, stripping local governments and institutions of any authority to allow transgender people to use the facilities that align with who they are.
It treats ordinary daily life as a crime scene, and transgender people as suspects.
Now, in Kansas, legislators are advancing bills that would mandate bathroom and locker room use based on sex assigned at birth — a policy that criminalizes transgender people’s presence in public life, and that was vetoed by the governor precisely because of its sweeping consequences for personal freedom.
Let’s be clear about what these laws actually do:
They strip away fundamental freedoms.
🔹 Freedom of autonomy over one’s own body.
Bathroom and locker room access is not a privilege — it is part of daily life.
Turning it into a political battleground weaponizes government against its citizens.
🔹 Freedom from government intrusion into private life.
These laws authorize surveillance and policing of bodies in the most intimate spaces, opening the door to harassment and punishment of people simply being themselves.
🔹 Freedom to participate in public life without fear.
Transgender people are already disproportionately targeted by violence and discrimination.
These bills make routine public presence fraught with legal jeopardy and social stigma.
There is no credible evidence that allowing transgender people to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity increases safety issues.
What these bills do is increase fear, harassment, and danger for transgender individuals and anyone else who falls outside rigid stereotypes of gender expression.
These laws aren’t about protection — they are about exclusion.
They send a chilling message that transgender lives are negotiable, disposable, and matter less under the law.
They invite individuals and corporations to enforce discrimination, violate privacy, and weaponize gender policing.
When a democracy starts telling some of its citizens where they can go to the bathroom, it is no longer protecting freedom — it is eroding it.
We should be expanding civil rights protections, not carving out exceptions to justify state-sanctioned discrimination. Corporations, institutions, and local governments must stand firm against these measures.
Silence is complicity. Retreat from basic human rights is a retreat from justice itself.
Equality under the law means every person — including transgender people — is free to live, work, and move through public spaces without fear and without humiliation. Anything less is not freedom — it is oppression.
It does. The SCOTUS' doctrine of "incorporation" is plainly nonsensical and for that matter non-textual. It was created to permit an activist progressive (in the sense of not being classically liberal) SCOTUS bench to rule to be constitutionally kosher what anti-liberty laws it wanted to have be enacted. That Congress has the power to define details of how that equality is effectuated is not any sweeping general repeal of the operative, restrictive (on government action) phrase, "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States".
The party that historically has argued so vehemently for "freedom" now wants to dictate what PRIVATE companies have as their policies. Maybe all the private companies in Kansas need to start making cakes? What sort of surprises me is that NONE of these bathroom bans are able to show ANY evidence of actual threats by trans folks. But then, this is a religious war and therefore defies any use of logic that contradicts dogma.
They spend so much time focused on trans people, when we're such a tiny portion of the population. Why are they so butthurt by our existence? They have put so much effort into policing what's in trans people's pants and where they go to do the most private and personal things in their lives, that they have become the perverts they scream about us being when we're not.
They hate us SO much that they'll ignore so much bigger problems in the nation in order to try and stop us from just peeing or pooping somewhere or even JUST existing! It's too much to handle anymore.
It's all a distraction and is reflective of Project 2025 goals to promote white cis hetero male supremacy. They started with the trans community as the most vulnerable and will be working their way through other minority groups. I have seen growing efforts to reverse legal same sex marriage. We need to throw these people out of office starting with the midterms and the next election cycle at the state level.
If I had a pussy, I would certainly understand why a woman with a dick, in a stall adjacent to mine, behind its own closed door, taking a shit and/or piss in her stall's toilet, would give me a heart attack.
Due to the spread of bathroom bans, every trans person, regardless of where they live, must make the decision now what to do when traveling or living in a state with a ban. Will you comply with the bigotry and use the wrong restroom of ASAB? Settle for a compromise with "separate but equal" bigotry and go out of your way to use a gender neutral single stall space? Or will you acknowledge that you deserve self-respect for yourself, embrace your gender identity, and use the correct restroom? Now is the time for courage, my friends. Don't avoid conflict. Make things awkward and become ungovernable if you must. March into the correct restroom with self-confidence because that's where you belong. Remember those who demanded civil rights in decades past, who sat at lunch counters they weren't welcome at, used what others deemed the "wrong facilities", and refused to accept a second-class citizenship. It's our turn now. We only lose if we give up and accept the place that conservatives deem proper for us. You got this!
This is so sick, evil, disgusting, and just plain mean. Dir what, maybe 2% of people? What's next, bathrooms linited to whites only??? Oh, wait, we already tried that.
Erin's article opens by stating "In the modern anti-transgender panic" This is not a panic, it's genocide. Everyone needs to stop down-selling what the Republicans/Nazis are doing. Their goal is to ensure that no transgender individual remains in the world, particularly in the U.S., and they will not stop until they achieve their goal. The cruel, bigoted, evil legislation may seem like drip, drip, drip, but they will continue their cruel, bigoted, hateful efforts until they achieve their goal. We all need to stop attributing their evil to politics or panic - it's genocide and it needs to be called out as such.
Rightwingers inventing sex crimes to cover up their own sex crimes
Let the lawsuits begin.
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.
And some of those impact private citizens.
"In Indiana, HB 1198 would apply to any public restroom—whether privately owned or government-run—and would establish criminal penalties for anyone who “knowingly or intentionally enters a restroom that is designated to be used” by someone of a different assigned sex at birth."
And visibly intersex people are now under the bus with us.
Since being transgender is literally an intersex condition in the sense of being physically atypical in sexually dimorphic anatomy, there is no logical distinction to be drawn between "carveouts" to such laws that protect the visibly intersex and those carveouts applying as well to us. Those who have merely "soft science" philosophical objections to the biological foundation of our being transgender should feel obligated to gin up something persuasive and quick which justifies their views as being logically rigorous and consistent with measured reality, clinical results, and being self consistent.
Would be interesting to see the Democratic governor issue an executive order prohibiting enforcement of the law, or something like that. Tie up the Republicans in court for years.
IDAHO GET STUFFED!🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽😈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
TRANSGENDER IS NEVER GOING AWAY!!!
DOWN WITH THE MAGA CULT TYRANNY AND THE CORRUPT CORPORATION TYRANTS THAT OWN THEM!!! 👿🔥👿🔥👿🔥👿🔥
Across this country — from North Carolina to Florida to Kansas — lawmakers have pushed a coordinated wave of bathroom-restriction bills that are not about privacy or safety.
They are about control, exclusion, and stripping basic civil liberties from transgender Americans.
In North Carolina, House Bill 2 forced every person in public buildings to use the bathroom corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate. It wasn’t just a bathroom policy — it was a message: your existence is a political problem, your body is a threat. It brought national backlash, economic boycotts, and damaging national headlines because the world recognized what it was — discrimination codified into law.
In Florida, House Bill 1521 similarly embeds bathroom policing into state law, stripping local governments and institutions of any authority to allow transgender people to use the facilities that align with who they are.
It treats ordinary daily life as a crime scene, and transgender people as suspects.
Now, in Kansas, legislators are advancing bills that would mandate bathroom and locker room use based on sex assigned at birth — a policy that criminalizes transgender people’s presence in public life, and that was vetoed by the governor precisely because of its sweeping consequences for personal freedom.
Let’s be clear about what these laws actually do:
They strip away fundamental freedoms.
🔹 Freedom of autonomy over one’s own body.
Bathroom and locker room access is not a privilege — it is part of daily life.
Turning it into a political battleground weaponizes government against its citizens.
🔹 Freedom from government intrusion into private life.
These laws authorize surveillance and policing of bodies in the most intimate spaces, opening the door to harassment and punishment of people simply being themselves.
🔹 Freedom to participate in public life without fear.
Transgender people are already disproportionately targeted by violence and discrimination.
These bills make routine public presence fraught with legal jeopardy and social stigma.
There is no credible evidence that allowing transgender people to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity increases safety issues.
What these bills do is increase fear, harassment, and danger for transgender individuals and anyone else who falls outside rigid stereotypes of gender expression.
These laws aren’t about protection — they are about exclusion.
They send a chilling message that transgender lives are negotiable, disposable, and matter less under the law.
They invite individuals and corporations to enforce discrimination, violate privacy, and weaponize gender policing.
When a democracy starts telling some of its citizens where they can go to the bathroom, it is no longer protecting freedom — it is eroding it.
We should be expanding civil rights protections, not carving out exceptions to justify state-sanctioned discrimination. Corporations, institutions, and local governments must stand firm against these measures.
Silence is complicity. Retreat from basic human rights is a retreat from justice itself.
Equality under the law means every person — including transgender people — is free to live, work, and move through public spaces without fear and without humiliation. Anything less is not freedom — it is oppression.
"Equality under the law means every person"
It does. The SCOTUS' doctrine of "incorporation" is plainly nonsensical and for that matter non-textual. It was created to permit an activist progressive (in the sense of not being classically liberal) SCOTUS bench to rule to be constitutionally kosher what anti-liberty laws it wanted to have be enacted. That Congress has the power to define details of how that equality is effectuated is not any sweeping general repeal of the operative, restrictive (on government action) phrase, "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States".
The insanity of these bills needs to be highlighted by roving bands of trans men masturbating in the women's rooms of state legislatures
The fascination these uneducated dolts have with genitals certainly says a lot about THEM!
They are so focused on the genitals of OTHER people makes me wonder if they know they have their OWN!
They can look at and play with their own and leave the genitals of other human beings alone.
The party that historically has argued so vehemently for "freedom" now wants to dictate what PRIVATE companies have as their policies. Maybe all the private companies in Kansas need to start making cakes? What sort of surprises me is that NONE of these bathroom bans are able to show ANY evidence of actual threats by trans folks. But then, this is a religious war and therefore defies any use of logic that contradicts dogma.
They spend so much time focused on trans people, when we're such a tiny portion of the population. Why are they so butthurt by our existence? They have put so much effort into policing what's in trans people's pants and where they go to do the most private and personal things in their lives, that they have become the perverts they scream about us being when we're not.
They hate us SO much that they'll ignore so much bigger problems in the nation in order to try and stop us from just peeing or pooping somewhere or even JUST existing! It's too much to handle anymore.
It's all a distraction and is reflective of Project 2025 goals to promote white cis hetero male supremacy. They started with the trans community as the most vulnerable and will be working their way through other minority groups. I have seen growing efforts to reverse legal same sex marriage. We need to throw these people out of office starting with the midterms and the next election cycle at the state level.
If I had a pussy, I would certainly understand why a woman with a dick, in a stall adjacent to mine, behind its own closed door, taking a shit and/or piss in her stall's toilet, would give me a heart attack.
Poe's Law.
The baddies take your post as serious affirmation of them.
Needs to be a "/sarc".
My apologies.
I hope it was taken as light heartedly as meant ; ^ )
Of course. :)
All the more reason not to visit these backwards states if not necessary. They don’t deserve our business. The Christian Taliban can GDIAF.
Due to the spread of bathroom bans, every trans person, regardless of where they live, must make the decision now what to do when traveling or living in a state with a ban. Will you comply with the bigotry and use the wrong restroom of ASAB? Settle for a compromise with "separate but equal" bigotry and go out of your way to use a gender neutral single stall space? Or will you acknowledge that you deserve self-respect for yourself, embrace your gender identity, and use the correct restroom? Now is the time for courage, my friends. Don't avoid conflict. Make things awkward and become ungovernable if you must. March into the correct restroom with self-confidence because that's where you belong. Remember those who demanded civil rights in decades past, who sat at lunch counters they weren't welcome at, used what others deemed the "wrong facilities", and refused to accept a second-class citizenship. It's our turn now. We only lose if we give up and accept the place that conservatives deem proper for us. You got this!
This is so sick, evil, disgusting, and just plain mean. Dir what, maybe 2% of people? What's next, bathrooms linited to whites only??? Oh, wait, we already tried that.
Unfortunately we all knew it was coming
Erin's article opens by stating "In the modern anti-transgender panic" This is not a panic, it's genocide. Everyone needs to stop down-selling what the Republicans/Nazis are doing. Their goal is to ensure that no transgender individual remains in the world, particularly in the U.S., and they will not stop until they achieve their goal. The cruel, bigoted, evil legislation may seem like drip, drip, drip, but they will continue their cruel, bigoted, hateful efforts until they achieve their goal. We all need to stop attributing their evil to politics or panic - it's genocide and it needs to be called out as such.
It's hard to stomach the hatred that animates these legislators.