This is in direct response to the first openly transgender member of congress being elected. This is a targeted attack against Sarah McBride.
It was black people.
Then it was gay people.
Now it's trans people.
And we voted for this.
America is trash.
No, America is not trash. But the United States recognized the need for guard rails after the bus plunged.
No, America is not trash.
How much do you know about US history?
Sorry bud, from here up north, America is trash.
it never recognized the need for guardrails, but it thinks we never got close, because nobody fucking knows anything.
Whites only bathrooms within 20 years I bet.
Try more like January 21st.
This is really an awful wasteful thing to do. Especially on a day like that. It's really disturbing how little empathy some people seem to hold. I fucking hate Americans (as an American) :c
Almost all non-gender bathrooms I have ever seen are just single occupent restrooms. Would that be covered under the ban, or would their be more nuance than that?
Single occupant bathrooms should be the norm everywhere. Visiting a country where they do that, after being used to the garbage arrangements we have in the US, was fantastic. It was one item on a list of a thousand that made me think “so this is what it looks like when a society values human dignity more than an extra hundred bucks in a millionaire’s pocket!”
Well I guess 355 days of being able to use the bathroom is a fair compromise
I'm a trans woman in Europe. Got traumatised by public restrooms in the 1990s way before my transition when one fucking coin-operated bathroom lock on a train station malfunctioned and I almost missed a train until some dude entered. Why the fuck do people use public bathrooms. Scourge on humanity. Especially coin-operated ones. Fuck them. I always hold until I get home, no matter what. Yet, glad our trains have gender neutral bathrooms. And they're free of charge. SEE, AMERICA? TRAINS GOOD.
This is just a distraction and rage bait. Sarah McBride herself knows that. Best to ignore it and move on
It’s showmanship for sure, but these policies have real implications
I wonder if there is some sort of health or building code Ms McBride can escalate to. Aren’t workplaces required to have restroom facilities? Maybe OSHA can close the Capitol as unsafe or something. Now that would be some headline
Thought I heard on one if the news segments that there are unisex bathrooms around the building/campus, but I wonder how accessible they would be if they were in session and had a need.
Good point, they would claim “she could use …., it’s not much more of a walk”, and endlessly bicker over what the threshold for too far is, missing the real point
Someone should change all the pre-existing male and female signs on the doors to unisex signs. Bathrooms for all!
They should shit on Johnson's desk. A bathroom for all!
Meanwhile Boeing lays off hundreds of workers in her constituency.
guarantee he has gigs of transgender porn on his computer. the speaker doth protest too much.
You could ask his son, they monitor each other's porn.
House Speaker Johnson remembers.
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