Several red states have passed laws requiring people to use the public restroom that is aligned with the gender that appears on their birth certificate. Florida and Texas are the most recent states to pass such laws.
The intent, clearly, is to prevent trans people from using the bathroom that corresponds to their gender, which is not the one they were born with.
So, imagine this: a guy with stubble on his face and muscular biceps will use the women’s restroom, because he was born a she. And a beautiful woman wearing a dress, lipstick, and high heels will go to the men’s room, because she was born a he.
How will this law be enforced?
Clearly, every state with such a law must do two things:
1. Everyone must wear a replica of their birth certificate on a chain around their neck.
2. Every public restroom must have a genital guard to check birth certificates at the door. No birth certificate, no entry.
But with one exception:
In the event that a person wants to use a public restroom but forgot their birth certificate, the genital guard would take the person into a private cubicle and do a visual inspection, a genital check.
Of course, each state would have to hire thousands of genital guards for schools, cinemas, hospitals, restaurants, hotels, etc. It would be expensive but it would likely create full employment.
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This is from The Onion, right?
GOP • Genital Obsession Party
lol
The “party of small government” is now obsessed with other people’s genitalia. The “party of law and order” now defends and enables insurrectionists and coup plotters. The “party of Lincoln” now coddles racists, misogynists and homophobes. They are simply disgraceful. Christian Nationalism, autocracy and fascism is not a good look for any patriotic, historically “woke” American. They have no shame only lies, hatred, grievance and exaggerated claims of victimhood.
A baseball player often wears a genital guard of a different sort.
I once lived in a small rural town for a while. Things were about as normal as the place I grew up in. Kids got married too young and adults shook their heads at them. One day a lady moved there. She was handsome and a pleasant conversationist. It was whispered around town that she had had a “sex change.” There was a man that lived there who was somewhat backward. He could not read, and his son struggled in school. They were not ostracized as such, but lived in a sort of separation enforced by the nature of agricultural labor. The son met this handsome, articulate woman, who was rumored to be a man in an earlier part of her life. They married quietly.
This is what DeSantis and his minions fear.
Maybe for the genital guard position they could recruit from the ranks of unemployed Catholic priests.
Not funny
Problem solved!
As absurd as that sounds, do not forget that reality is often much stranger than fiction. Genital guards for schools, cinemas, hospitals, restaurants, hotels, etc. may end up being tame in comparison to what the MAGA zombie fascists end up doing if or when they take over and implement their dystopian, insane thinking.
I think they’d also make it a felony to use the wrong gender bathroom, wearing clothing not approved for your physical gender, sending someone wearing the wrong style of clothing and those that had to go to the bathroom to prison for decades.
How about body scanners? To get inside a public bathroom, everyone has to be scanned to determine what sex they are. If the scan shows you are not the sex you claim to be, 100% female or male, you are arrested and executed.
Nothing sounds absurd anymore.
“..would be expensive but it would likely create full employment.”
A friend posted that his dog is so interested in the urinating of his fellow canines that he would be a natural for the job you describe.
I was thinking more about AI. A genital scanning bot sure seems a possibility to me. Talk about beyond freedom and dignity.
Maybe we could get Elizabeth Holmes out of the jail she is about to report to so she can do a one-drop-of-blood gender identifier.
99,999,999 times out of 100,000,000 it is obvious what sex a person is born with. It isn’t rocket science; quit pretending that it is. Until a few years ago everyone agreed on this, but the left has to jump on every identity bandwagon it encounters, disrupting the entire country and mutilating little boys and girls.
I know this will likely go over your tiny little head, but genetics have long proven to be essential in gender identity. And like actual genetics, nothing is obvious. Chromosomes, like every human trait, are not identical or perfect, whatever definition that may be at the time. There are variances in which an individual will be born, for example, with certain genitalia whose inner nature does not conform with simplistic, simplified cultural and social observations tainted by ignorance, prejudice and a compulsion for cruelty. The only thing obvious here is your total ignorance of basic scientific concepts.
If that’s true, why have there been so many cases lately of cisgender women getting thrown out of the women’s room because they don’t “look feminine” enough?
What is a “cisgender” woman??
You could have done this yourself: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+cisgender+woman&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1046US1046&oq=what+is+a+cisgender+woman&aqs=chrome..69i57.4449j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
There have been trans kids and trans adults for years and you weren’t scared for the mutilated children. Just like there were Jews in Germany for centuries without Germans being scared for Aryan children.
But as soon as some fascist leader comes along and tells them to be scared and hate, their innate hateful natures come out. Someone tells them to hate trans people and makes up a ridiculous reason that is a lie but they can cite as truth to justify it. So jacquilenhardt5598 says hating trans people is good to protect little boys and girls, and in Nazi Germany, the people like her said hating Jews is important to protect little Aryan boys and girls.
There are many former Republicans who are disgusted with this Republican appeal to hate, just as former Democrats are now drawn to these appeals to hate.
The ones who are drawn to appeals to hate always claim they are “protecting” someone, usually children, but citing good Aryan children hurt by Jews or nice boys and girls hurt by trans, their claims always fall apart when they are asked to prove it.
No one is “mutilating little boys and girls”, but it’s convenient to foment hate just like folks like jacquilenhardt5598 were saying similar lies about Jews in Nazi Germany.
Ahhhh the NAZI comparison, last resort. All the hate is in the left, all of it, you wallow in it. Anyway, quit comparing the Jews to people with gender dysphoria, there is NO comparison.
Girls and women deserve their own private spaces, period. Yes, there have been people with gender dysphoria for decades, but now it is a social contagion, and they are actively RECRUITING, innocent children. Have you not seen the heartbreaking stories of de transitioners? Before you make another moronic claim about NAZIS do a little googling and you will see how your side is very like Mengele in its penchant for killing babies in the womb and chopping off healthy sex organs.
Jacquilen: “In a review of 27 studies involving almost 8,000 teens and adults who had transgender surgeries, mostly in Europe, the U.S and Canada, 1% on average expressed regret. For some, regret was temporary, but a small number went on to have detransitioning or reversal surgeries, the 2021 review said.”
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-treatment-regret-detransition-371e927ec6e7a24cd9c77b5371c6ba2b
Knee replacement surgery, OTOH, has a regret rate of 6%-30% depending on study. Maybe you should spend your energy fighting knee replacement.
It’s difficult to listen to your ugly anti-Semitism and anti-trans rhetoric.
The only mutilators are the Nazi heroes of the white supremacist neo-Nazis who support the Republican party’s anti-trans agenda and – just like you – excuse their hate by claiming they are doing it “for the kids”. It is not a coincidence that your Republican party has embraced the white supremacist neo-Nazis instead of disavowing them.
You think you know better than parents of trans kids because Alex Jones and his ilk convince you of a lie – that trans children are being mutilated with their parents’ permission. Just like Alex Jones convinced his followers that 20 first graders gunned down by a right winger didn’t exist, and their parents deserved the violent threats.
Your concern for “mutilated” children seems to only apply to non-existent “mutilated” trans children, while you have no concern at all for 20 first graders gunned down and mutilated — for real – by a right winger while a Republican hero can convince people those children didn’t even exist and Republican leaders still embrace him.
Just ask the actress Jennifer Grey how many people “regret” their nose jobs. I guess those must be banned, too?
We are talking about removing breasts. We are talking about taking a penis and trying to fashion a vulva out of it, and making a cavity in the male body that a penis can be inserted into.
Why don’t we try some psychotherapy FIRST!
“Why don’t we try some psychotherapy FIRST!”
Another, equally as effective way to cure these misguided souls is praying for them and send them to Sunday schools.
In some southern states they try a novel idea: they want to put the ten commandments on the wall of classrooms. I think that has great promise and it will also control school shootings.
Scientists and doctors sometimes on’t think about the most obvious solutions; they are just too much on the left.
Just as I thought, “Cisgender” is a nonsense word used to replace the word WOMAN! :).
From the data I have seen, about 1% of the population is transgender. That would be one million out of 100 million. They and their parents make decisions about how to deal with this, not politicians, judges or “the left” or “the right.” Don’t you believe in parental rights?
I believe that “gender reassignment surgery”, which isn’t even possible is mutilation, and shouldn’t be allowed on children. I told my graduating senior to go into law because the lawsuits coming from this insanity is going to be Epic. It is okay to disagree with the left once in awhile, Diane.
Gender reassignment surgery doesn’t happen on children. This is like saying amputating a child’s leg should never happen and you crowing to your daughter that she should specialize in getting rich by taking the cases of all the children who you claim were “mutilated” by having their leg amputated. It’s sickening you want your daughter to financially benefit from the extremely rare cases where a parent decides to give permission to have surgery for their child’s best interest.
You want a right wing government to order parents what to do because you don’t believe in parent rights. Don’t pretend to speak for the children when you say you know better than parents. You speak for people who traffic in hate.
Puberty blockers happen to children. Trans-sex hormone therapy happens to children. The next step is mutilation of the body. These steps occur without the child seeing a psychatrist. Oftentimes these poor children are participating in Munchausen by proxy or social contagion. Doctors and Big Pharma are making bank on children’s psychological problems, and in some cases, their parents, my daughter, will be on the side of the VICTIMS, of which there are MANY. It is pretty ironic that the people on this blog who don’t think parents should pick their kid’s school think they should steer them to bodily mutilation. Don’t you think we should err on the side of caution and get these kids the therapy they need before we sterilize them and render them unable to nurse children if they are lucky enough to have them. I speak for those who care about these kids and can see th
For the love of God (goddess, whichever), it isn’t what organs you have, it’s how your brain is affected. “It doesn’t matter which sex organs you have, it’s whether estrogen, or androgen, which is converted to estrogen in the brain, masculinizes the brain during this critical period,” says Dr. Lawrence C. Layman, chief of the MCG Section of Reproductive Endocrinology, Infertility and Genetics in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. “We have found variants in genes that are important in some of these different areas of the brain.”
Wow. I never thought I would live to see the Republican Party do job creation.
Let me get this straight, Florida and Texas now have laws that require that I carry my BIRTH CERTIFICATE to prove that I am using the restroom that is assigned by my birth sex? I’m have been a male all my life (80+ Years) and have never worried if someone happened to see my sex organ while urinating. But I would object if there was a member of the state’s sex police who required that I show them my organs to use a public restroom. Don’t say that that would never happen. These Fascist-Republicans would think nothing of requiring it. You don’t want to support these Fascists, think about vacationing or retiring some place else. If they don’t want our friends who are part of the LGBTQ community, then they don’t want straights who are their friends and family either. Take you money some place else, let their resort, convention, and tourist industry demand these laws be repealed and end all donations to the Fascist-Republican Party or PACs that support these candidates.
A dream job for the likes of Donald Trump, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and George Santos?
you’ve been reading Borowitz too much 😁
“… a genital check.”
What is the gender of these inspectors? Female for a female bathroom? If yes, what if they encounter an occasional penis? What if that belongs to a hermaphrodite? How can they tell if a surgically altered genitalia used to be a penis and not just the result of some kind of beautification done by a plastic surgeon?
What are the qualifications for such a job? What certificate would be needed? Do colleges need to create a new major?
Wouldn’t transgender people be the best qualified inspectors?
There are many more intriguing questions.
I found the Bathroom Cop recruiting video!
🙂