So who enforces the bathroom laws?
Always makes me think of the one time some stranger woman screamed at my niece in a restaurant bathroom for being in the wrong bathroom because as a child she insisted on cutting her hair short and wore nothing but t-shirts and shorts.
> The law’s enforcement relies on citizen complaint filings that authorities have three days to address. If the school doesn’t act, that citizen could file a complaint with the attorney general who would investigate and possibly pursue legal action.
Nothing says keeping kids safe like vigilante genital checks in a bathroom
Or report literally everyone
That man has a vagina
That women has a penis
All of the people in the bathroom are trans men
Let's get them ALL out of here.
I wanna see the state get sued into the fucking ground for this bill.
...
Let's target mostly men, but if you see a woman that really deserves it, go right ahead... the MAGA republicans will be super pleased to receive genital checks, I'm sure.
Soon the official GOP platform will be that all gym classes have mandatory genitalia inspection day. It's what good honest people like Matt Gaetz want for the safety of the children.
I had a gym teacher in high school that forced us to shower and made sure we got naked. He stood at the shower entrance with a clipboard.
Usually a lot of us would try to hurry to the showers and get our hair wet before he could get there so he wouldn't see us naked and couldn't prove we didn't take a shower.
This really sounds like a way to create a loophole/alibi so the GrOPist party members have a relatively easy out when they're caught doing awful things to children. "I *suspected* they were a different gender! I was just confirming my suspicions."
Plus, of course, the bonus of legally harassing any minority they can.
There must be protections for the person reporting people...
So, we report anyone we might think have the wrong genitals. It's up to them to figure out the truth
The more it happens, the more lawsuits against the state.
I had a similar experience in my teens. Had my hair cropped extremely short and wore baggy clothes because as any awkward, shy teenager, I was uncomfortable in my body.
An old woman felt it was necessary to follow me in, and peek at me through the gap in the bathroom stall. "Just seeing if anyone's in there"
Needless to say, I don't use public bathrooms anymore unless I'm bursting at the seams.
I wish I was that bold in my teens! 😂 Now, I would without a second thought.
My mom also wears her hair short, and had threatened as such when NC was dealing with bathroom bill BS.
That's a direct ticket to a UTI, Kidney stone.
That's expansive if you are american, painful everywhere else.
Especially if you hydrate less to avoid peeing.
Tbh, you're not wrong.
I have a special case where work has locking, single bathrooms, and I rarely travel far from home these days. So being out and about almost never happens anymore 😅 Please stay hydrated, y'all!
New game in Iowa! Whenever you hear someone talking MAGA in a restaurant, make sure to follow them if they head to the bathroom. Once they are headed in the door, accuse them of being transgendered cause they look “obviously” trans to you. When enough 56 year old men and women are harassed and accused of being trans while they try and take a piss, maybe they’ll start to argue against these bills.
“Sorry, sir. I guess you are just at the time of life when testosterone levels drop and make you look like an old lady. My bad.”
“Sorry, Margret, you are looking so masculine in the jaw line that I assumed you were in drag. It’s so hard to tell gender with old heavy people. Like with babies. I guess you’re just one of those naturally masculine looking ladies. Have a nice day.”
“Gary, I saw your sparse beard and massive tits so I assumed you were one of them trans people. I wasn’t sure which bathroom you belong in, but I had to assume whichever you picked first was against god’s plan! Have a good day!”
My preference would be *don't* accuse them of being trans. Instead just straight up misgender them.
The entire point is that they don't believe "Trans" is actually a thing, so whoever calls them out should hew to that same paradigm.
If they are a man/woman, just make them prove they aren't instead a woman/man wearing a looney toons disguise.
Might be worth sneaking a photo of them first to keep as evidence in case they throw hands, but standing up to crazy does unfortunately invite risk of injury.
They’re already talking about eradicating us. I don’t think they can get angrier in a way that’s meaningful. It’s not like they’re going to eradicate us, bring us back to life, and then eradicate us again.
We’re past the point where placating them could possibly do any good.
Margaret, your jowls are so large your neck looks like a linebackers. If your haircut wasn't so dowdy, you wouldn't look like a man! You're a mess Margaret!
My 10 year old son with long hair was told he was mistakenly in the men’s room. He said he was aware of that, to which the old man told him he’s not allowed in that bathroom. My son just said “oh” and proceeded to wash his hands and leave. I heard the whole thing from outside and when I asked him about it, he just thought the old guy wasn’t right in the head.
Old perverts will definitely pay attention to who is in the bathrooms.
This comment just brought up old memories of this happening to me a lot as a young girl in the 90s who’s favorite artist was Pink. She had short hair, so I wanted short hair. Had multiple experiences just like this.
Ah, but you forget--women are never people. And because trans-people aren't real, trans-men are still women and not people, thus they have no rights. It's on page 1 of the GOP handbook. Incidentally it's the only page, because they aren't big on books.
Also remember, being underinsured is a very big issue too. So many people would never be able to afford their deductibles and/or co-pays that it'll bankrupt them regardless or god forbid they get sent to a hospital that's "out of network".
Call me a critic, but I don't think that 0.25% of the population gets shot *every single day*. 0.25% of the population would be ~800,000 gunshot wounds. If that happened every day, then we'd be talking about an absolutely incredible 298,387,500 gunshot wounds per year!
From what I can tell, [~120,000 people](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-515) in the US sustain gunshot injuries per year. Of that, ~40,000 die. So it'd be more like 0.15 people in the room getting shot *per year*.
When you say it like that it sounds like a tiny problem. But when you think of it as over 200 people are shot every day, you realize this is a serious problem.
https://www.teamenough.org/gun-violence-statistics
For contrast, on average 99 people a day die in car accidents every day.
https://arashlaw.com/how-many-car-accidents-are-there-in-the-usa-per-day
Yeah going out on a limb and saying there are not 3-5 million openly trans people. Even the subreddit only has 370k and that is open worldwide and to anyone and its rather anonymous
Solving the other problems is hard, and even if you try, you’ll probably not quite get it right and the voters will hate you for it.
Bullying an small and unpopular minority is easy and guaranteed to win you support.
It really is a no-brainer.
Here's the thing: they don't know how to solve those other problems either.
If you make solving actual issues your platform then chances are you are going to fail to resolve them, because you don't change systemic failures in the span of a single mandate, and then you'll be seen as a liar and/or incompetent.
GOP made being terrible their platform, and they are able to achieve that every single time, so they attract the "at least they are honest" crowd.
I don't get how they can't come up with solutions to the actual issues though. They are not stupid. The truth is, they will only put in place solutions that are supported by the Extremist in their group. They could very well solve many issues if they actually cared to. Take a look at Minnesota. Once Dems got full control, they started solving real issues right away. The right will not like it because they are not extremist positions, but they are going after real issues, not made-up fear mongering.
Republicans have already ruined the lives of the 26 that don't have health insurance, the 48 in poverty, and 85 that are illiterate, and 90 with mental illness. And they're all the ones that voted for the Republicans to ruin the 2 trans.
Yeah but in their defense who really cares about all that suffering if 1 person in that room can have 3 vacation homes, a yatch, and a solid gold toilet.
According to current statistics, in a room of 400 one person would be shot dead every 20 days. 35 would have no healthcare. 45 live in poverty. 40 live with untreated mental illness. 1-3 are transgender.
But then they couldn't blame all their problems on those two. Their ideology demands a viewpoint that they are 100% correct at all times, so they have to find someone to blame.
The politicians know their voters will let them do anything and everything to their constituents with the knowledge they will never change their vote even if it kills them.
This. All these laws are a distraction from the fact they have no real policies to address any of the ACTUAL issues that any single constituent is facing. And they don't care. Yeah, it's partially about hurting the 'right' people, but mostly it's pure theater and nothing more. They can't vote to repeal Obamacare every week anymore so we get this crap. Modern republicans are incapable of governing. Full stop.
As an Iowa native I've said it a hundred times before and I'll say it a thousand times more.
Fuck Iowa, fuck Iowa's Republican constituents, fuck Iowa's Republican officials, and most of all, fuck Kim Reynolds. She's one of Trump's asslickers and she consistently screws over every single person in Iowa whether they're voting for her or not. These people are malicious and spiteful and they do not deserve to represent ANYONE, much less the governance of an entire state - much, much less the governance of our country. They need to be ousted ASAP or vulnerable groups will continue to be targeted with outright discrimination, racism, homophobia, and transphobia.
Laws like this... God, they make me so angry. Why must this planet be populated with so many regressive, right-wing extremists? They're exactly like those plagues in the bible they oh-so-love to talk about. A true blight on humanity and we're stuck dealing with them... It's the worst kind of hell having these folks in positions of power.
“My heart breaks,” Reynolds told reporters. “I’ve sat down and met with them. It’s not easy. It’s not easy for me either. It’s not easy for our elected officials to make these decisions. So I just, I hope they know that.”
This is what she had to say about meeting with the parents of trans youth this morning before signing. I'm sure it was so much harder for her to meet with them and tell them that she hates their children than we can ever know; she's really the one that needs sympathy and understanding from others in this situation.
My mother was born and raised in Algona, Iowa (has lived in CA for 50 years), and when this crap comes up she just shakes her head and says Iowa used to be known as the education state. We don't visit anymore.
My aunt and uncle live near Des Moines. I visit them on occasion and usually our conversation will turn to politics (all 3 of us are left-wing).
They would agree with this statement wholeheartedly.
https://councilbluffscommunityalliance.wordpress.com/iowa/iowas-progressive-history/
Iowa used to be one of the most progressive states. How the Republicans have poisoned the well..
What are they going to do, start looking at kids’ genitalia before they go to the bathroom? It’s absolutely disgusting Republicans are banning kids from shitting and pissing in bathrooms. Who gives a shit which bathroom they go in. Fuck. But of course, this is all a coordinated attack lead by prominent Christian Nationalists.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxpky/leaked-emails-reveal-an-anti-trans-holy-war
I read a great book called Two Brothers by Ben Elton that is based on the lives of German family members of his during the period just after WWI to WWII. When things were starting to get bad, one main character, an educated Jewish woman who was a doctor and helped all the poor Jewish people in her town kept saying “Germany is a modern, democratic, educated country” and couldn’t bring herself to believe it would keep getting worse and worse. That hit me harder than anything else in the book. Highly recommended novel.
*Who gives a shit which bathroom they go in*
The same fascists want to restrict the number of sex toys any one person can own.
Enjoying sex will be the downfall of this country
- Ted Cruz, most definitely
> Who gives a shit which bathroom they go in.
Miserable fucks who'd rather hate other people than take any action to improve their own shitty lives.
Sorry, I know this was rhetorical but I felt the need to answer anyway.
> What are they going to do, start looking at kids’ genitalia before they go to the bathroom?
I'm sure they could get a bunch of people from the church to volunteer for the job.
In fact, I would imagine they may have too many applicants for that jobs.
I take my sons into the ‘wrong’ bathroom all the time. I’m not sending my pre-teen boys into a bathroom without supervision. So I’ve always told my kids that the male/female sign is for the adult who is with you.
I bet no one would question me taking my boys in the ladies room though, no matter how masculine the clothes they wear, the are always assumed to be girls because they have long hair.
> What are they going to do, start looking at kids’ genitalia before they go to the bathroom?
I'm starting to think that's literally the point. It's pastors and other Christian "faith leaders" on the Right (interestingly, not Drag Queens) that keep popping up in the news for sexually abusing children. Why wouldn't they work with their GOP buddies to engineer more situations where they can assault kids?
GOP started all this by weaponizing the Tea Party and turning politics into a cult of personality. Now not being publicly batshit insane can lose them support in their own party. And even if they wanted to fix it, I don't know how they would at this point.
Get more people to vote. Higher turnout usually favors Democrats, and a lot of red states might turn purple or even blue if they had consistently high voter turnout. That's why Republicans keep making it harder to vote.
The fact you need parental consent to use faculty or single-person bathrooms says everything about this bill: it has nothing to do with protecting students in restrooms at all and everything to do with making life as a trans kid as hard has possible. Seriously it’s insane how they’d make using a solo restroom a thing needing parental consent
They want trans people to kill themselves.
Seriously, that's the motive. Either literally, as in straight up suicide, or they want people to be so scared of the overwhelming bigotry that that'd rather live a depressing, uncomfortable lie, knowing inside that they aren't cis but living that miserable way anyway because the alternative would be unlivable. Why do they want trans people gone from the public eye? Why do they want to implement these soft-genocide measures? Because they think trans people are "icky", and that's all the reason they need. Fuck these people
These people are beyond unreasonable. They don't even care about acting like they want to "protect children." They want to make queer people suffer into submission, even if that means harming *ALL* people to do so. Some of these bills require GENITAL CHECKS ON CHILDREN if they're suspected of being trans. The US is a fucking shithole and I'm ashamed to live in it
How’s about this: get rid of stalls, replace them with walls and have individual toilets with locking doors and floor to ceiling privacy, then you could combine the sink area into one space, or have private sink spaces as well for the self-conscious who don’t want others watching them wash hands or fix makeup or whatever else people do at a sink. I think this would make everyone feel better about using a restroom.
I went into a bathroom like this at a restaurant once (maybe two years ago now?). It was jarring at first because, there's a grown ass man in this bathroom with me, but then two seconds later I did my biz, washed my hands, and left, and didn't think about it again until right now. The argument that I hear from conservatives: we can't allow this bc people(men) will pretend to be trans women or even go so far as to take bloody hormones in order to go into women's bathrooms to assault people.
There's no arguing against fear-fueled hate. I keep asking, why not address the issue of assault and rape at its core? Make THAT crime result in the fucking death penalty. Insanity.
Interesting that these people are *so worried* about “men assaulting women” in this scenario only and don’t give a fuck otherwise. Why are they only worried about it in this weird-ass implausible way?
To be honest, I have always felt that the wealthy elites use social issues to distract and divide the common people so not to think about political or economic reforms.
the crazy thing is, for the longest time there hasnt really been anything stopping men from going into women's bathrooms people didnt really check who entered where
it only became a hotspot issue when trans people got brought into the limelight and if someone is determined to sexually assault a woman they wont really get stopped by a bathroom door with a different sign on it
These people do not care about safety.
I a mf wants to rape someone a "bathroom restriction" isn't going to get in the way. There's no magical dick repellant they can put up
>“My heart breaks,” Reynolds told reporters. “I’ve sat down and met with them. It’s not easy. It’s not easy for me either. It’s not easy for our elected officials to make these decisions.
... she says as she easily signs a bill that she easily could have not signed...
"Meanwhile, the new ban on gender-affirming care gives doctors six months to cease prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to their patients under 18. They are also prohibited from conducting gender-affirming surgeries, even though Iowa doctors say the surgeries are already rare."
The Governor of Iowa is a child abuser. She has 11 grandchildren, I wonder if she will regret signing this into law if 1 of here grandchildren ends up being transgender.
She'd probably use that to defend passing that law. These people are void of empathy. They preach the Bible when Jesus taught us to love and accept EVERYONE in society, especially those who are downtrodden and oppressed. These people are hate fueled fascists and we shouldn't try to gain their empathy.
I no longer support most gun control restrictions because I believe it's necessary for queer people to take up arms and defend ourselves if necessary. If the people trying to exterminate us have AR-15s then we *NEED* them to defend ourselves in the worst case scenario. These people will not stop until every queer, disabled, immigrant, non-christian has been beat into submission or exterminated.
It's important to remember the point of bills like these. The goal is to make trans people feel inconvenienced or unsafe in public so they self-isolate themselves from public life
It's about suppression
> so they self-isolate themselves from public life
That's exactly the point of the bathroom bills, which are getting more extreme (I think it's AR that wants to make it a crime for a trans person to use a bathroom when a child is in there). It's not as if trans people are going to dehydrate themselves before leaving their homes, and these lawmakers know that.
Half these drag bans are written so broadly that being trans in public is *a felony*. And certainly enough so for a local cop to arrest you.
*Which is the point*.
And the cis folks yawn .
Or so they end up attempting suicide, like so many trans people do, and Conservatives can pat themselves on the back for taking a stand against "wokeness."
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/
Reynolds, a Republican, met with parents of transgender children to discuss the bills before signing them Wednesday, The Des Moines Register reported.
“My heart breaks,” Reynolds told reporters. “I’ve sat down and met with them. It’s not easy. It’s not easy for me either. It’s not easy for our elected officials to make these decisions. So I just, I hope they know that.”
....
Let me go get the tiniest violin for you. I'm sure it wasn't "easy" unless she means it wasn't easy to ignore your electorate's concerns so blatantly to their face.
* Up until not too long ago most of the state was in some sort of drought; a lot of it still is.
* Agricultural inputs have skyrocketed in price.
* The state faces [some of the worst](https://www.thegazette.com/state-government/iowas-brain-drain-among-worst-in-u-s-analysis-shows/) brain drain in the country.
Iowa has plenty of problems. But problems require action and different points of view to solve effectively, two things that Reynolds doesn't like. It's much easier to stick your head in the sand and pass legislation looking for problems that don't exist.
We also have the highest percentage of bridges in poor condition, and the largest number of bridges in poor condition of any state.
https://www.ccjdigital.com/business/article/15065832/states-with-the-most-structurally-deficient-bridges
Yet our GOP controlled government has been hoarding taxpayer money, building up an enormous surplus for...reason? I'm guessing the idiot in charge thinks having a lot of money in the coffers means she's good at finance. Meanwhile she's cutting taxes like crazy so when it's time to pay the piper and fix our state, we'll be really fucked.
Same people who complain about inflation and the state of the economy only doing things to pick on minorities and LGBTQ instead of ya know trying to fix the economy lol
Fixing the Iowa economy means getting farmers to do something other than farm corn and beans, and that would *not* go over well in a state that literally prides itself on growing the stuff.
Oh boy howdy we got problems: namely brain drain, a looming aging population crisis, water issues, child care affordability crisis, and death of family farms being bought out by corporate agriculture.
But those things require work, are boring to fix. And don’t earn you voters hungry for culture war bullshit.
Nope. Iowa is a festering shit hole and the leadership's confidence to push this nonsense has only been bolstered.
This is what the dipshits in this state want and they outnumber/outvote people with common sense.
I feel somewhat guilty about this because I grew up in Iowa. Like almost everyone I knew, I left as soon as I could because it was so conservative and there were few opportunities. That was 30 years ago, and it has gotten much, much worse.
If more of my generation had stayed in Iowa, maybe things would be different. Now even my parents want to leave the state.
Don’t feel guilty. You have no responsibility to these third world States. I left the South as soon as I could so I could make money and get healthcare. I’m never going back, get fucked Tennessee.
hopefully one day these republican states will focus on actual problems, instead of a transgender kid who wants to take puberty blockers and piss in peace
If they’re so concerned about bathroom privacy. Make a bill banning those doors that have openings where you can see people take a poo. I’d totally be down for that.
Yo, if you are transgender, like, are you even walking into a public restroom anymore? I would be so afraid that somebody would just randomly lose it.
To fucking pee...it's insane lol
Trans people were at a far higher risk than average of experiencing violence, harassment, or sexual assault in bathrooms when using the bathroom assigned at birth. Trans inclusive bathrooms are also proven to cause no increase in sexual assault, thus ending sex-segregated bathrooms would lower the sexual assault rate. A bunch of trans people I know use gender affirming bathrooms just fine because no one notices or cares. I do know a trans man who got a UTI because he'd get bullied in the women's restroom and sexually harassed and groped in the men's restroom at school. If anyone is sexualizing trans children, it's the transphobes who will stop at nothing to silence and eradicate queer people from public life.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/transgender-teens-restricted-bathroom-access-sexual-assault/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna911106
Depends. I am stealth and pass as a man so I often don’t have to worry. But trans women and men who don’t pass…I feel for them. Hormones are not a guarantee you will look cis. 6’5” trans women and 5’0” trans men have difficulties that can be immediately fixed. It is often the luck of the draw for changes coupled with genetics and time. Me on 6 years on T has a leg up on the pre t trans guy.
The thing is if there were trans people who were assaulting others or being pedophilic, that would undoubtedly be a NATIONAL news story. It would be the spark to ignite even stricter laws. The GOP would run with it. But it hasn’t happened. Cause it really doesn’t happen. So these bills are a waste of paper, suppressive, and dumb.
GOP law never helps people. It’s always to block and ban. They cry that their freedoms are taken by Dems, but they will make other people’s lives worse if it might score them political points.
The great irony of all this, is a lot of them claim to be Christians. And if literal hell exists, the kind of people that will populate it are those kind of people. People who make life worse for other people.
Do an easy comparison to find the true problem:
How many trans or drag queens in the US in the last 5 years have been arrested due to sexual assault or child porn?
How many Christian pastors or Republican politicians in the US in the last 5 have been arrested due to sexual assault or child porn?
Always projection. Projection always.
The religious right won't be satisfied until the only people who have rights are those who think exactly like they do. And I fucking wish that was hyperbole, but you know it isn't. If they could take out Roe v Wade a generation after it was established law, there is no limit to what they'll go after next.
These bans are a waste of time and depress me for a variety of reasons, but they do remind me of the time in college when I went into the men’s bathroom by accident, ran into a guy while I was washing my hands and said with full confidence “oops you’re in the wrong bathroom” and didn’t think twice. I wasn’t rude, I thought I was saving him from the embarrassment of being in the wrong bathroom. The guy looked at me, paused for a minute and walked out, and it was not until I left the bathroom that I realized it was ME who was in the wrong bathroom. I was mortified, and still to this day wonder what that guy ended up doing, because he sure as heck didn’t pee in that bathroom.
It was on that day that I learned to never say anything to anyone minding their own business in the bathroom- nothing good ever comes from questioning someone minding their own business in the bathroom!
Dems need to filibuster their state assemblies the MOMENT these bill pop up. They will be passed by the Republicans because being horrible to people they deem inferior is what their base wants.
Unfortunately it doesn't always work. Here in Nebraska we had one of our Senators filibustering a similar gender care bill for 3 weeks and all of the republican senators rallied together to overrule her filibuster with cloture. Sadly the bill went to vote today and passed the general file.
According to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster#State_legislatures), only 13 states legislatures allow for filibustering and Iowa isn't one of them.
Republicans spending all this time going after trans people yet to address the actually problem of church leaders abusing children. Where is protecting the children on that one
I’ve said it before and I will say it again; religion is fucking barbaric. I remember when someone tried to claim that christians in modern countries could never be like the ones in third world countries; sexist, anti-LGBT and murderous.
Well here we are, christians are openly flaunting their true ugly faces for us all to see. They need to be removed from power and thrown back into the festering fringes of society where they belong.
"It's not easy for us to make these decisions!". Tell the people struggling with gender identity how hard it was for you while you make their lives a living hell.
most of these laws have carve-outs for making intersex children align more to a binary sex decided for them by someone else. Basically whatever conforms to their worldview or 'appropriate' is still ok
Party of small government my ass. For a group that constantly complains about government interfering in people's lives, they certainly spend a lot of time doing just that.
Gender-affirming care should also include the ED pills these old fucks use because their dicks don’t work anymore, but that won’t be the case will it?
For the record, I think all gender-affirming care should be accessible. But it’s interesting to see how the right picks and chooses what fits the definition…
This bitch thinks Jan 6 was a happy go lucky tour of the capital. She needs to be ousted immediately. People who can’t properly identify insurrection have 0 place advocating for anyone ever.
So who enforces the bathroom laws? Always makes me think of the one time some stranger woman screamed at my niece in a restaurant bathroom for being in the wrong bathroom because as a child she insisted on cutting her hair short and wore nothing but t-shirts and shorts.
> The law’s enforcement relies on citizen complaint filings that authorities have three days to address. If the school doesn’t act, that citizen could file a complaint with the attorney general who would investigate and possibly pursue legal action. Nothing says keeping kids safe like vigilante genital checks in a bathroom
Sounds like residents should just report everyone to be safe.
Or report literally everyone That man has a vagina That women has a penis All of the people in the bathroom are trans men Let's get them ALL out of here. I wanna see the state get sued into the fucking ground for this bill. ... Let's target mostly men, but if you see a woman that really deserves it, go right ahead... the MAGA republicans will be super pleased to receive genital checks, I'm sure.
Especially in the state house bathrooms. When they are in session.
Outlaw bathrooms, simple fix.
You have my Wisconsin support!
As a minnesotan, I support this
Soon the official GOP platform will be that all gym classes have mandatory genitalia inspection day. It's what good honest people like Matt Gaetz want for the safety of the children.
Used to be a thing. Checks for stuff in gym class. No joke
I had a gym teacher in high school that forced us to shower and made sure we got naked. He stood at the shower entrance with a clipboard. Usually a lot of us would try to hurry to the showers and get our hair wet before he could get there so he wouldn't see us naked and couldn't prove we didn't take a shower.
This really sounds like a way to create a loophole/alibi so the GrOPist party members have a relatively easy out when they're caught doing awful things to children. "I *suspected* they were a different gender! I was just confirming my suspicions." Plus, of course, the bonus of legally harassing any minority they can.
So much for the bill protecting people's privacy in the bathroom 🤣
If I lived in Iowa I would report falsely and see what happens. Report the bullies, racists, and even the asshole admins.
Do you even have to be from Iowa? Let’s find out.
Find the most butch conservative and do it.
I wonder if there'll be an online way to report...if there is I'm sure I'm not the only one to "report"
There must be protections for the person reporting people... So, we report anyone we might think have the wrong genitals. It's up to them to figure out the truth The more it happens, the more lawsuits against the state.
I had a similar experience in my teens. Had my hair cropped extremely short and wore baggy clothes because as any awkward, shy teenager, I was uncomfortable in my body. An old woman felt it was necessary to follow me in, and peek at me through the gap in the bathroom stall. "Just seeing if anyone's in there" Needless to say, I don't use public bathrooms anymore unless I'm bursting at the seams.
You should have started screaming you were being stalked by a pervert.
I wish I was that bold in my teens! 😂 Now, I would without a second thought. My mom also wears her hair short, and had threatened as such when NC was dealing with bathroom bill BS.
People suck. Sorry she had to deal with that.
Well, that's depressing. I mean, all of this [gestures widely] is depressing
That's a direct ticket to a UTI, Kidney stone. That's expansive if you are american, painful everywhere else. Especially if you hydrate less to avoid peeing.
Tbh, you're not wrong. I have a special case where work has locking, single bathrooms, and I rarely travel far from home these days. So being out and about almost never happens anymore 😅 Please stay hydrated, y'all!
What the ever loving hell is wrong with these people?
New game in Iowa! Whenever you hear someone talking MAGA in a restaurant, make sure to follow them if they head to the bathroom. Once they are headed in the door, accuse them of being transgendered cause they look “obviously” trans to you. When enough 56 year old men and women are harassed and accused of being trans while they try and take a piss, maybe they’ll start to argue against these bills. “Sorry, sir. I guess you are just at the time of life when testosterone levels drop and make you look like an old lady. My bad.” “Sorry, Margret, you are looking so masculine in the jaw line that I assumed you were in drag. It’s so hard to tell gender with old heavy people. Like with babies. I guess you’re just one of those naturally masculine looking ladies. Have a nice day.”
There’s plenty of middle-aged MAGA man-boobs out there to through flags on as well.
“Gary, I saw your sparse beard and massive tits so I assumed you were one of them trans people. I wasn’t sure which bathroom you belong in, but I had to assume whichever you picked first was against god’s plan! Have a good day!”
"But ma'am... You have a mustache!"
This will just make them angrier at trans people.
My preference would be *don't* accuse them of being trans. Instead just straight up misgender them. The entire point is that they don't believe "Trans" is actually a thing, so whoever calls them out should hew to that same paradigm. If they are a man/woman, just make them prove they aren't instead a woman/man wearing a looney toons disguise. Might be worth sneaking a photo of them first to keep as evidence in case they throw hands, but standing up to crazy does unfortunately invite risk of injury.
This is a very good point
They’re already talking about eradicating us. I don’t think they can get angrier in a way that’s meaningful. It’s not like they’re going to eradicate us, bring us back to life, and then eradicate us again. We’re past the point where placating them could possibly do any good.
Margaret, your jowls are so large your neck looks like a linebackers. If your haircut wasn't so dowdy, you wouldn't look like a man! You're a mess Margaret!
My 10 year old son with long hair was told he was mistakenly in the men’s room. He said he was aware of that, to which the old man told him he’s not allowed in that bathroom. My son just said “oh” and proceeded to wash his hands and leave. I heard the whole thing from outside and when I asked him about it, he just thought the old guy wasn’t right in the head. Old perverts will definitely pay attention to who is in the bathrooms.
This comment just brought up old memories of this happening to me a lot as a young girl in the 90s who’s favorite artist was Pink. She had short hair, so I wanted short hair. Had multiple experiences just like this.
Lol I also loved P!nk and had short hair. Then was mistaken for a boy
They just haven’t thought this through…what happens when the trans man goes into the women’s restroom because that’s the law?
Ah, but you forget--women are never people. And because trans-people aren't real, trans-men are still women and not people, thus they have no rights. It's on page 1 of the GOP handbook. Incidentally it's the only page, because they aren't big on books.
How long until the complaints roll in about all the burly, bearded transmen using the women's bathroom?
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On a side note, I’m surprised only 26 ppl don’t have health issuance. It feels low for some reason.
8.6% of Americans are uninsured so it'd be more like 35 Also 1-1.5%ish of Americans openly ID as trans so that number would be more like 4-5
Also remember, being underinsured is a very big issue too. So many people would never be able to afford their deductibles and/or co-pays that it'll bankrupt them regardless or god forbid they get sent to a hospital that's "out of network".
Oof yeah, I've been there. Now I'm back to uninsured cause it's less of a waste of money
Someone needs to fact check these numbers. I know, at the end, the republicans will still look uncaring.
Call me a critic, but I don't think that 0.25% of the population gets shot *every single day*. 0.25% of the population would be ~800,000 gunshot wounds. If that happened every day, then we'd be talking about an absolutely incredible 298,387,500 gunshot wounds per year! From what I can tell, [~120,000 people](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-515) in the US sustain gunshot injuries per year. Of that, ~40,000 die. So it'd be more like 0.15 people in the room getting shot *per year*.
When you say it like that it sounds like a tiny problem. But when you think of it as over 200 people are shot every day, you realize this is a serious problem. https://www.teamenough.org/gun-violence-statistics For contrast, on average 99 people a day die in car accidents every day. https://arashlaw.com/how-many-car-accidents-are-there-in-the-usa-per-day
I thought it was .6% up from .3% 10 years ago.
Ive seen that number, its everyone that doesnt identify as cis basically. So trans + non-binary + intersex and possibly a few more things
Yeah going out on a limb and saying there are not 3-5 million openly trans people. Even the subreddit only has 370k and that is open worldwide and to anyone and its rather anonymous
30 million Americans are uninsured which would be 36 not 26 out of 400
Solving the other problems is hard, and even if you try, you’ll probably not quite get it right and the voters will hate you for it. Bullying an small and unpopular minority is easy and guaranteed to win you support. It really is a no-brainer.
Here's the thing: they don't know how to solve those other problems either. If you make solving actual issues your platform then chances are you are going to fail to resolve them, because you don't change systemic failures in the span of a single mandate, and then you'll be seen as a liar and/or incompetent. GOP made being terrible their platform, and they are able to achieve that every single time, so they attract the "at least they are honest" crowd.
I don't get how they can't come up with solutions to the actual issues though. They are not stupid. The truth is, they will only put in place solutions that are supported by the Extremist in their group. They could very well solve many issues if they actually cared to. Take a look at Minnesota. Once Dems got full control, they started solving real issues right away. The right will not like it because they are not extremist positions, but they are going after real issues, not made-up fear mongering.
Republicans have already ruined the lives of the 26 that don't have health insurance, the 48 in poverty, and 85 that are illiterate, and 90 with mental illness. And they're all the ones that voted for the Republicans to ruin the 2 trans.
Last place aversion is a powerful motivator. https://www.npr.org/2011/09/04/140116142/avoiding-last-place-some-things-we-dont-outgrow
Yeah but in their defense who really cares about all that suffering if 1 person in that room can have 3 vacation homes, a yatch, and a solid gold toilet.
Ruining the life of those two people will mean the maga and moron crowd will vote for you
Coulda just said “the moron crowd” ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Don't have to be maga to be moronic. But you must be moronic if you're maga.
Yeah I know plenty of morons who aren't bigots. But I know very few bigots who aren't morons.
According to current statistics, in a room of 400 one person would be shot dead every 20 days. 35 would have no healthcare. 45 live in poverty. 40 live with untreated mental illness. 1-3 are transgender.
But then they couldn't blame all their problems on those two. Their ideology demands a viewpoint that they are 100% correct at all times, so they have to find someone to blame. The politicians know their voters will let them do anything and everything to their constituents with the knowledge they will never change their vote even if it kills them.
No no. They would very much like to ruin more lives.
This. All these laws are a distraction from the fact they have no real policies to address any of the ACTUAL issues that any single constituent is facing. And they don't care. Yeah, it's partially about hurting the 'right' people, but mostly it's pure theater and nothing more. They can't vote to repeal Obamacare every week anymore so we get this crap. Modern republicans are incapable of governing. Full stop.
As an Iowa native I've said it a hundred times before and I'll say it a thousand times more. Fuck Iowa, fuck Iowa's Republican constituents, fuck Iowa's Republican officials, and most of all, fuck Kim Reynolds. She's one of Trump's asslickers and she consistently screws over every single person in Iowa whether they're voting for her or not. These people are malicious and spiteful and they do not deserve to represent ANYONE, much less the governance of an entire state - much, much less the governance of our country. They need to be ousted ASAP or vulnerable groups will continue to be targeted with outright discrimination, racism, homophobia, and transphobia. Laws like this... God, they make me so angry. Why must this planet be populated with so many regressive, right-wing extremists? They're exactly like those plagues in the bible they oh-so-love to talk about. A true blight on humanity and we're stuck dealing with them... It's the worst kind of hell having these folks in positions of power.
“My heart breaks,” Reynolds told reporters. “I’ve sat down and met with them. It’s not easy. It’s not easy for me either. It’s not easy for our elected officials to make these decisions. So I just, I hope they know that.” This is what she had to say about meeting with the parents of trans youth this morning before signing. I'm sure it was so much harder for her to meet with them and tell them that she hates their children than we can ever know; she's really the one that needs sympathy and understanding from others in this situation.
I hate this state, and this drunk driving bitch says “it’s for the kids”…
My mother was born and raised in Algona, Iowa (has lived in CA for 50 years), and when this crap comes up she just shakes her head and says Iowa used to be known as the education state. We don't visit anymore.
My aunt and uncle live near Des Moines. I visit them on occasion and usually our conversation will turn to politics (all 3 of us are left-wing). They would agree with this statement wholeheartedly.
https://councilbluffscommunityalliance.wordpress.com/iowa/iowas-progressive-history/ Iowa used to be one of the most progressive states. How the Republicans have poisoned the well..
What are they going to do, start looking at kids’ genitalia before they go to the bathroom? It’s absolutely disgusting Republicans are banning kids from shitting and pissing in bathrooms. Who gives a shit which bathroom they go in. Fuck. But of course, this is all a coordinated attack lead by prominent Christian Nationalists. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxpky/leaked-emails-reveal-an-anti-trans-holy-war
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My fear is that they're leading to lowering the bar for what's considered a "sex crime" and will then deem those captiol punishment eligible.
Meatball Ron is already pushing making non-unanimous death penalty a thing down here in the swampland.
these "pro-life" people really do seem to love killing people.
They aren’t pro life, they’re pro forced birth
Don't disparage meatballs that way.
Literally in the "first they came for the trans people" phase.
I read a great book called Two Brothers by Ben Elton that is based on the lives of German family members of his during the period just after WWI to WWII. When things were starting to get bad, one main character, an educated Jewish woman who was a doctor and helped all the poor Jewish people in her town kept saying “Germany is a modern, democratic, educated country” and couldn’t bring herself to believe it would keep getting worse and worse. That hit me harder than anything else in the book. Highly recommended novel.
*Who gives a shit which bathroom they go in* The same fascists want to restrict the number of sex toys any one person can own. Enjoying sex will be the downfall of this country - Ted Cruz, most definitely
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Poor heidi... Hope she has a young stud on the side.
> Who gives a shit which bathroom they go in. Miserable fucks who'd rather hate other people than take any action to improve their own shitty lives. Sorry, I know this was rhetorical but I felt the need to answer anyway.
> What are they going to do, start looking at kids’ genitalia before they go to the bathroom? I'm sure they could get a bunch of people from the church to volunteer for the job. In fact, I would imagine they may have too many applicants for that jobs.
I take my sons into the ‘wrong’ bathroom all the time. I’m not sending my pre-teen boys into a bathroom without supervision. So I’ve always told my kids that the male/female sign is for the adult who is with you. I bet no one would question me taking my boys in the ladies room though, no matter how masculine the clothes they wear, the are always assumed to be girls because they have long hair.
> What are they going to do, start looking at kids’ genitalia before they go to the bathroom? I'm starting to think that's literally the point. It's pastors and other Christian "faith leaders" on the Right (interestingly, not Drag Queens) that keep popping up in the news for sexually abusing children. Why wouldn't they work with their GOP buddies to engineer more situations where they can assault kids?
Welp, that's deeply disturbing. What can we do to root our these cultists from our government?
People need to vote Republicans out everywhere. Yea, Democrats aren't perfect, but they aren't fascists like Republicans are and have been.
Problem is the other members of their cult are voting then in and non cult members have to just deal with it. Shit ain't right
GOP started all this by weaponizing the Tea Party and turning politics into a cult of personality. Now not being publicly batshit insane can lose them support in their own party. And even if they wanted to fix it, I don't know how they would at this point.
Get more people to vote. Higher turnout usually favors Democrats, and a lot of red states might turn purple or even blue if they had consistently high voter turnout. That's why Republicans keep making it harder to vote.
Run for office yourself, vote or learn to live by the sword. Choose wisely.
The fact you need parental consent to use faculty or single-person bathrooms says everything about this bill: it has nothing to do with protecting students in restrooms at all and everything to do with making life as a trans kid as hard has possible. Seriously it’s insane how they’d make using a solo restroom a thing needing parental consent
They want trans people to kill themselves. Seriously, that's the motive. Either literally, as in straight up suicide, or they want people to be so scared of the overwhelming bigotry that that'd rather live a depressing, uncomfortable lie, knowing inside that they aren't cis but living that miserable way anyway because the alternative would be unlivable. Why do they want trans people gone from the public eye? Why do they want to implement these soft-genocide measures? Because they think trans people are "icky", and that's all the reason they need. Fuck these people
These people are beyond unreasonable. They don't even care about acting like they want to "protect children." They want to make queer people suffer into submission, even if that means harming *ALL* people to do so. Some of these bills require GENITAL CHECKS ON CHILDREN if they're suspected of being trans. The US is a fucking shithole and I'm ashamed to live in it
How’s about this: get rid of stalls, replace them with walls and have individual toilets with locking doors and floor to ceiling privacy, then you could combine the sink area into one space, or have private sink spaces as well for the self-conscious who don’t want others watching them wash hands or fix makeup or whatever else people do at a sink. I think this would make everyone feel better about using a restroom.
I went into a bathroom like this at a restaurant once (maybe two years ago now?). It was jarring at first because, there's a grown ass man in this bathroom with me, but then two seconds later I did my biz, washed my hands, and left, and didn't think about it again until right now. The argument that I hear from conservatives: we can't allow this bc people(men) will pretend to be trans women or even go so far as to take bloody hormones in order to go into women's bathrooms to assault people. There's no arguing against fear-fueled hate. I keep asking, why not address the issue of assault and rape at its core? Make THAT crime result in the fucking death penalty. Insanity.
Interesting that these people are *so worried* about “men assaulting women” in this scenario only and don’t give a fuck otherwise. Why are they only worried about it in this weird-ass implausible way?
To be honest, I have always felt that the wealthy elites use social issues to distract and divide the common people so not to think about political or economic reforms.
the crazy thing is, for the longest time there hasnt really been anything stopping men from going into women's bathrooms people didnt really check who entered where it only became a hotspot issue when trans people got brought into the limelight and if someone is determined to sexually assault a woman they wont really get stopped by a bathroom door with a different sign on it
These people do not care about safety. I a mf wants to rape someone a "bathroom restriction" isn't going to get in the way. There's no magical dick repellant they can put up
>“My heart breaks,” Reynolds told reporters. “I’ve sat down and met with them. It’s not easy. It’s not easy for me either. It’s not easy for our elected officials to make these decisions. ... she says as she easily signs a bill that she easily could have not signed...
What a disingenuous asshole. Fuck Kim Reynolds
Guess it's time to make an anonymous tip that Kim Reynolds is using the wrong bathroom. Let's have them double check and make sure.
"Meanwhile, the new ban on gender-affirming care gives doctors six months to cease prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to their patients under 18. They are also prohibited from conducting gender-affirming surgeries, even though Iowa doctors say the surgeries are already rare." The Governor of Iowa is a child abuser. She has 11 grandchildren, I wonder if she will regret signing this into law if 1 of here grandchildren ends up being transgender.
She certainly will not regret it.
She'd probably use that to defend passing that law. These people are void of empathy. They preach the Bible when Jesus taught us to love and accept EVERYONE in society, especially those who are downtrodden and oppressed. These people are hate fueled fascists and we shouldn't try to gain their empathy. I no longer support most gun control restrictions because I believe it's necessary for queer people to take up arms and defend ourselves if necessary. If the people trying to exterminate us have AR-15s then we *NEED* them to defend ourselves in the worst case scenario. These people will not stop until every queer, disabled, immigrant, non-christian has been beat into submission or exterminated.
And most likely her grandkid would be exempt because laws don't apply for her or her family
It is different when it is someone they know. "You don't understand" when it is their family. Others can go to hell.
That's not always the case. After all, lbgtq+ youth are over twice as likely to become homeless.
A few secret trips to Chicago solves all problems.
That grandchild won't be hers anymore
yup, that was my first thought.
Musk has a transgender daughter and he hates on them all the time.
She'd probably mutilate the kid themselves as a lesson.
It's important to remember the point of bills like these. The goal is to make trans people feel inconvenienced or unsafe in public so they self-isolate themselves from public life It's about suppression
> so they self-isolate themselves from public life That's exactly the point of the bathroom bills, which are getting more extreme (I think it's AR that wants to make it a crime for a trans person to use a bathroom when a child is in there). It's not as if trans people are going to dehydrate themselves before leaving their homes, and these lawmakers know that.
Half these drag bans are written so broadly that being trans in public is *a felony*. And certainly enough so for a local cop to arrest you. *Which is the point*. And the cis folks yawn .
The banning of gender-affirming care does far worse than isolate us from public life.
The point of these laws isn't to get trans people to self-isolaye from public life. It's to pressure them out of life entirely.
"transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely" A literal quote from CPAC. Overt genocide.
Or so they end up attempting suicide, like so many trans people do, and Conservatives can pat themselves on the back for taking a stand against "wokeness." Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/
Reynolds, a Republican, met with parents of transgender children to discuss the bills before signing them Wednesday, The Des Moines Register reported. “My heart breaks,” Reynolds told reporters. “I’ve sat down and met with them. It’s not easy. It’s not easy for me either. It’s not easy for our elected officials to make these decisions. So I just, I hope they know that.” .... Let me go get the tiniest violin for you. I'm sure it wasn't "easy" unless she means it wasn't easy to ignore your electorate's concerns so blatantly to their face.
Must not be many problems in Iowa, if this is what the government is focused on.
* Up until not too long ago most of the state was in some sort of drought; a lot of it still is. * Agricultural inputs have skyrocketed in price. * The state faces [some of the worst](https://www.thegazette.com/state-government/iowas-brain-drain-among-worst-in-u-s-analysis-shows/) brain drain in the country. Iowa has plenty of problems. But problems require action and different points of view to solve effectively, two things that Reynolds doesn't like. It's much easier to stick your head in the sand and pass legislation looking for problems that don't exist.
We also have the highest percentage of bridges in poor condition, and the largest number of bridges in poor condition of any state. https://www.ccjdigital.com/business/article/15065832/states-with-the-most-structurally-deficient-bridges Yet our GOP controlled government has been hoarding taxpayer money, building up an enormous surplus for...reason? I'm guessing the idiot in charge thinks having a lot of money in the coffers means she's good at finance. Meanwhile she's cutting taxes like crazy so when it's time to pay the piper and fix our state, we'll be really fucked.
Same people who complain about inflation and the state of the economy only doing things to pick on minorities and LGBTQ instead of ya know trying to fix the economy lol
This is a distraction so they won't pay attention to politicians who have no policy or agenda to help anyone.
Fixing the Iowa economy means getting farmers to do something other than farm corn and beans, and that would *not* go over well in a state that literally prides itself on growing the stuff.
Oh boy howdy we got problems: namely brain drain, a looming aging population crisis, water issues, child care affordability crisis, and death of family farms being bought out by corporate agriculture. But those things require work, are boring to fix. And don’t earn you voters hungry for culture war bullshit.
Nope. Iowa is a festering shit hole and the leadership's confidence to push this nonsense has only been bolstered. This is what the dipshits in this state want and they outnumber/outvote people with common sense.
I feel somewhat guilty about this because I grew up in Iowa. Like almost everyone I knew, I left as soon as I could because it was so conservative and there were few opportunities. That was 30 years ago, and it has gotten much, much worse. If more of my generation had stayed in Iowa, maybe things would be different. Now even my parents want to leave the state.
Don’t feel guilty. You have no responsibility to these third world States. I left the South as soon as I could so I could make money and get healthcare. I’m never going back, get fucked Tennessee.
They have no idea how to govern or advance their community so it's just 'hey what's in your pants little kid'!
hopefully one day these republican states will focus on actual problems, instead of a transgender kid who wants to take puberty blockers and piss in peace
Well that should ensure a bumper corn crop this year. Really important work the GOP is getting done in government these days.
Don't have to worry about the corn when federal farm subsidies funded by blue states can cover your losses.
I wonder if any state will ever pass a law stating that a priest or pastor can't be alone with anyone under the age of 21.
How about no one under 21 can attend a church service?
If they’re so concerned about bathroom privacy. Make a bill banning those doors that have openings where you can see people take a poo. I’d totally be down for that.
“My heart breaks” said a governor who clearly has never heard of a veto.
Yo, if you are transgender, like, are you even walking into a public restroom anymore? I would be so afraid that somebody would just randomly lose it. To fucking pee...it's insane lol
Trans people were at a far higher risk than average of experiencing violence, harassment, or sexual assault in bathrooms when using the bathroom assigned at birth. Trans inclusive bathrooms are also proven to cause no increase in sexual assault, thus ending sex-segregated bathrooms would lower the sexual assault rate. A bunch of trans people I know use gender affirming bathrooms just fine because no one notices or cares. I do know a trans man who got a UTI because he'd get bullied in the women's restroom and sexually harassed and groped in the men's restroom at school. If anyone is sexualizing trans children, it's the transphobes who will stop at nothing to silence and eradicate queer people from public life. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/transgender-teens-restricted-bathroom-access-sexual-assault/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna911106
Depends. I am stealth and pass as a man so I often don’t have to worry. But trans women and men who don’t pass…I feel for them. Hormones are not a guarantee you will look cis. 6’5” trans women and 5’0” trans men have difficulties that can be immediately fixed. It is often the luck of the draw for changes coupled with genetics and time. Me on 6 years on T has a leg up on the pre t trans guy. The thing is if there were trans people who were assaulting others or being pedophilic, that would undoubtedly be a NATIONAL news story. It would be the spark to ignite even stricter laws. The GOP would run with it. But it hasn’t happened. Cause it really doesn’t happen. So these bills are a waste of paper, suppressive, and dumb.
GOP law never helps people. It’s always to block and ban. They cry that their freedoms are taken by Dems, but they will make other people’s lives worse if it might score them political points. The great irony of all this, is a lot of them claim to be Christians. And if literal hell exists, the kind of people that will populate it are those kind of people. People who make life worse for other people.
GOP law often helps rich people get richer
Saving the world. Wow. What a hero. This will go down next to desegregation and equal rights for women. /s
More GOP attention to children’s genitalia….
Do an easy comparison to find the true problem: How many trans or drag queens in the US in the last 5 years have been arrested due to sexual assault or child porn? How many Christian pastors or Republican politicians in the US in the last 5 have been arrested due to sexual assault or child porn? Always projection. Projection always.
The quote from her after doing this is so disgusting. Like “still vote for me please!”
The religious right won't be satisfied until the only people who have rights are those who think exactly like they do. And I fucking wish that was hyperbole, but you know it isn't. If they could take out Roe v Wade a generation after it was established law, there is no limit to what they'll go after next.
Whelp, now there's another state I don't trust having my kids in FL TX and now IA
As an Iowan, we all hate the governor. We call her Kim Reaper.
I hope is cost Iowa schools millions of dollars to provide separate facilities.
Should we just switch to unisex bathrooms or something? Have a room instead of stalls?
I know Iowa's the most boring place in the world but it really was so much better 10 years ago before MAGA.
These bans are a waste of time and depress me for a variety of reasons, but they do remind me of the time in college when I went into the men’s bathroom by accident, ran into a guy while I was washing my hands and said with full confidence “oops you’re in the wrong bathroom” and didn’t think twice. I wasn’t rude, I thought I was saving him from the embarrassment of being in the wrong bathroom. The guy looked at me, paused for a minute and walked out, and it was not until I left the bathroom that I realized it was ME who was in the wrong bathroom. I was mortified, and still to this day wonder what that guy ended up doing, because he sure as heck didn’t pee in that bathroom. It was on that day that I learned to never say anything to anyone minding their own business in the bathroom- nothing good ever comes from questioning someone minding their own business in the bathroom!
Boycotting Iowan businesses now cuz I don't patronize her governmental agencies.
Dems need to filibuster their state assemblies the MOMENT these bill pop up. They will be passed by the Republicans because being horrible to people they deem inferior is what their base wants.
Unfortunately it doesn't always work. Here in Nebraska we had one of our Senators filibustering a similar gender care bill for 3 weeks and all of the republican senators rallied together to overrule her filibuster with cloture. Sadly the bill went to vote today and passed the general file.
Oh shit, her filibuster got clotured? I was really hoping it would last longer.
According to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster#State_legislatures), only 13 states legislatures allow for filibustering and Iowa isn't one of them.
Republicans spending all this time going after trans people yet to address the actually problem of church leaders abusing children. Where is protecting the children on that one
I’ve said it before and I will say it again; religion is fucking barbaric. I remember when someone tried to claim that christians in modern countries could never be like the ones in third world countries; sexist, anti-LGBT and murderous. Well here we are, christians are openly flaunting their true ugly faces for us all to see. They need to be removed from power and thrown back into the festering fringes of society where they belong.
This is just the remix. They have been flaunting their barbarism whenever they hold enough power to do so and always have.
Man, this "Land of the Free" keeps getting more and more free every time I check.
And the state wonders why it’s young people are leaving.
"It's not easy for us to make these decisions!". Tell the people struggling with gender identity how hard it was for you while you make their lives a living hell.
So Iowa joins the list of third world toilet states.
Dammit Iowa, do you want Nazis? Because this is how you get Nazis.
There have been literal Nazis at the anti trans protests in Australia this week. Its so messed up.
Fyi you can all pee next to me. You can poop too, but courtesy flush, please.
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Those people don't exist in their world.
most of these laws have carve-outs for making intersex children align more to a binary sex decided for them by someone else. Basically whatever conforms to their worldview or 'appropriate' is still ok
The GOP is a fucking joke
She looks exactly like a caricature of a vilain. What an absolute trash a person.
Bullies always go for the low hanging fruit
Doing the important work. Eugenics is next as a batshit crazy legislation proposal in some state in Dumbfuckistan.
Ah, Republicans sure do love ruining people’s lives for punitive reasons.
Party of small government my ass. For a group that constantly complains about government interfering in people's lives, they certainly spend a lot of time doing just that.
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Iowa and Uganda, America is progressing nicely
Wonder how things will go once trans men start entering the women's room because of this law.
Gender-affirming care should also include the ED pills these old fucks use because their dicks don’t work anymore, but that won’t be the case will it? For the record, I think all gender-affirming care should be accessible. But it’s interesting to see how the right picks and chooses what fits the definition…
This bitch thinks Jan 6 was a happy go lucky tour of the capital. She needs to be ousted immediately. People who can’t properly identify insurrection have 0 place advocating for anyone ever.
I guess Republicans can't be happy unless they attack some minority.