https://twitter.com/H0NEYRIVER/status/1443751046203863043?s=19

  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    3 years ago

    How does that even work?

    A lock that can only be opened by the correct genitals?

    Those dogs that detect terminators, but for transpeople?

    Are vigilantes supposed pop their heads under the stalls?

      • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I remember TERFs unironically advocating for cis men being present in women’s bathrooms to watch out for transwomen

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        3 years ago

        Permitting anyone creepy enough to spy on people taking a dump to do so?

        Literally the worst option here.

        Hell even importing some cops from terf island to periodically knock on the stalls and be like "Oy, you got a license for that fanny?" would be less invasive.

        • dave297 [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Permitting anyone creepy enough to spy on people taking a dump to do so

          weren't they initially pretending to be concerned about safety

    • Sklorp [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Waiting half an hour outside the bathroom because some lady can't get the electronic dildo handle to work

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      The company which produces ShotSpotter is going to spin off a subsidiary which uses toilets equipped with microphone arrays to analyze the acoustics of your trickle and verify your pee-angle falls within predetermined parameters. It will also malfunction 80 percent of the time.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That's the thing, these rules are effectively unenforceable. Like, Target or McDonalds or whoever sure as hell aren't going to spend $ to have someone monitor their bathrooms. And if some chud wants to "tattle" to a manager, I don't even see how that could work. Do they think a manager is going to call security (most places don't even have real security anymore) and do a genital check or something. Capital has no interest in enforcing this.

      Only places I could see this practically being an issue would be like a school, where you have the same people using the same bathrooms every day, and there's some authority in charge over users (school admins over students).

      So it's not even going to be effective. Doesn't matter, chuds just want to win a battle in the culture war for once. Fucking losers.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        3 years ago

        The point of them is to legitimize harassment. My best friend (NB, AFAB) told me a story about a time when they went to the women's room and a man started banging on the door shouting, "There's a man in there!" When they came out he realized his mistake and sheepishly went on his way. That's the purpose of the law, obviously it isn't really enforceable on everyone, but for people who don't pass or who as present in a queer or androgynous way, then suddenly strangers feel like they have a right to harass and interrogate us. It has nothing to do with safety, except insofar as the assholes want an excuse so they don't feel like assholes.

        • star_wraith [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah for sure, this is what I think it's ultimately about.

    • probabilityzero [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      If you listen to hardcore transphobes they will half-heartedly try to explain how it could be enforced but they don't actually care. They know cis women aren't in any danger in bathrooms and they only pretend otherwise as a rhetorical trick. To them it's all a way of legitimizing harassment and discrimination.

    • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Airport security style x-ray machines?

      Registered sex offenders to do dick checks on children?

      Mandatory strip searches of anyone that needs a piss?

      Mandatory DNA sequencing and the creation of a passport system that contains your sex chromosomes, (because let's just shove intersex folk under the bus too)?

      Most likely - overzealous "concerned citizens" harassing any woman who "looks like a dude."

      • QuipeConTe [she/her,he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I had a pixie cut in school and wore my varsity jacket everywhere. I got harassed as a 'boy' going into the women's restroom--despite the fact that it said the women's dive team on the jacket.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Inserting my dick in the biometric scanner and thanking god there won't be a trans man at the urinal to invade my privacy.

    • account346533 [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Its under the expectation that trans people don't pass ever and so "you can tell"

    • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's going to be enforced by self-appointed vigilantes beating the shit out of trans folks and cis folks who don't conform to every gender norm.

      The law is more or less implicit encouragement and tacit agreement to give right wing lunatics confidence no repercussions will come to them.