The burdens of Republicans’ campaign of hatred against the community affect trans people most severely, but they truly fall on everyone. I don’t want to live in a society where police officers come storming into the john demanding to see your private parts. www.advocate.com/news/lesbian... - ThreadSky

nycsouthpaw.bsky.social • 20 hours ago

The burdens of Republicans’ campaign of hatred against the community affect trans people most severely, but they truly fall on everyone. I don’t want to live in a society where police officers come storming into the john demanding to see your private parts. https://www.advocate.com/news/lesbian-mistaken-transgender-arizona-walmart

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jamiemcquinn.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Why are Republicans so obsessed with genitals? (Rhetorical question)

nycblu.bsky.social•20 hours ago

This is it. "The only men in the women's restroom were the cops". Probably freak sexual gratification to charge I to the women's bathroom for those men.

artemis46.bsky.social•20 hours ago

That's why they're going after trans girls in sports - because they don't want ANY girls in sports. How many 14-year-old girls are going to be OK with genital checks?

jaydub2099.bsky.social•20 hours ago

More to the point, how many dads are going to be OK with genital checks of their 14 year old daughters?

artemis46.bsky.social•19 hours ago

No argument here, but what happens when it's "genital checks, or no sports"?

zenphp.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I get to check the checkers genitalia with a bat first.

ministry-of-truth.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Sue the cops

serioustalk.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I don't want to live in a society in which officers, who have the power of life or death over people, have so little wisdom or discernmen. Why would you barge in on someone relieving themselves instead of telling the complainant to f- off?

carenow.bsky.social•20 hours ago

100% True! The fascists aim to divide before they conquer. Solidarity!

martinkroeger.bsky.social•19 hours ago

mothpockets.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Oh look, another way for bored cops to harass America's long suffering racialized/minority citizens.

zellers.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Can women just start using men's bathrooms, en masse?

darbyz.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I have used men's bathrooms so many times in my life that I can't count them. Sometimes the line for the women's is too long or the bathroom is disgusting. Noone ever turned me in..and I am a geriatric grandma who wouldn't hesitate to do it again. America the Ugly.

diotimaellen.bsky.social•20 hours ago

This is what I was afraid of: fascist cops take the "law" into their own hands to use bad judgment and harass whomever they want, where and how they want, figuring no one will stop them. This poor woman!! Disgusting.

madammem.bsky.social•15 hours ago

One of the many reasons why I am not returning to the US anytime soon, but my son will absolutely be questioned.

He has fine features & long hair. Adults are constantly misgendering him and insisting on him being a girl.

Trans laws will hurt all people who do not conform to "traditional" looks

carl3settlemyer.bsky.social•18 hours ago

📌

sf12-34.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Yep, this is where everything is headed.

loquaciousjenny.bsky.social•19 hours ago

It is literally an alien concept to me that somebody goes into a bathroom to take a piss or dump in a locked stall and somebody else sees this and goes "I need to call the police"

vivavivaviva.bsky.social•20 hours ago

It’s out of hand.

palumboliu.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Once you feed hate you diminish people’s capacity for empathy in any direction.

fununit3000.bsky.social•20 hours ago

my partner "looks mannish" to some I think she looks normal

shes only had it questioned a few times. ALL within the past couple of years

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

IF THEY COME FOR TRANS FOLK THEY WILL COME FOR YOU

#solidarity

littlee.bsky.social•16 hours ago

"Are you really okay with living in a world where police follow your daughter into the bathroom and demand she prove she's a girl?" - should be in every dem ad from now until the midterms, this isn't hard

massdisillusion.bsky.social•19 hours ago

dumb. fucking dumb. police rectories.

zerogravityy.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Maybe she should have made her gender clearer, say by wearing a hijab. Better yet, niqab.

born2bemild.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Or a Mormon prairie dress

ditzyhorse.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Let’s all get “I’m a man t shirts” and go piss in the Walmart toilets.

chuckzak.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Blame the males who insist they have a right to be there

rodera.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Or see if you... strike.

Haw, haw, haw.

Oh, you, theocracies...

allisonmckim.bsky.social•8 hours ago

📌

lisaspangenberg.info•16 hours ago

This is a fairly common experience for butch Lesbians, or frankly assertive women with short hair. Women vets are are often targetted because they still have military hair cuts and bearing.

catchthesegiraffes.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I don’t understand how the TERFs don’t get that this is the end-game of their philosophy - that any woman who doesn’t look “feminine” enough or gets too good at sports is subject to harassment

doctrinedominatrix.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I think they do get it. I think they only care about rigid gender norms and therefore any woman not practicing femininity in public is open game.

madammem.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Any boy or man who is "pretty" will also be targeted.

Anyone who does not conform to "traditional" facial or body standards will be targeted.

lisaspangenberg.info•14 hours ago

I think they just wanted a "safe" target to hate. Like the GOP. It all comes back to hate. My Mom (101) never saw a sex-separated bathroom until she went to work for Bell South/the phone company in the 1940s. My dorm in the 1980s had non gendered bathrooms & showers.

moodywitch.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I hope she sues their asses...and walmart..AND the damn karen ass employee who called. Best of luck to her getting those bags!! Smh. SHAMEFUL.

batyarose.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Wonder PBS doc, Who I Am Not, about 2 intersex people and their journeys. A must see for transphobes.

darbyz.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Sue Walmart, demand the employee be fired, and sue the Sheriff's Dept. We aren't Russia yet. Publish the employee's information.

chirontoit.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Precisely. Good example of one way democrats can effectively frame this issue and avoid bolting to the right for perceived political expediency @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

thefunhater.bsky.social•16 hours ago

So, if she had used the men’s room the cops would not have been summoned? (Leaving aside the safety issues for her there which are enormous…) Isn’t that the opposite of the bathroom bills like the one congress passed? I know this is all to punish nonconformists but that’s not addressed here

wanderingincode.bsky.social•16 hours ago

It's so that trans people have absolutely zero space to exist.

pedelpusher.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Oh hell no, should have said prove that you're not a woman

raphaelastgermain.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I know a woman who looks much like a man, and she's been rightfully insulted when she's called "sir." I'd be horrified for her if police came into the women's restroom after her, whether the police person was a female or a male. It's just horribly intrusive, no matter what.

sdrose.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Arizona

swingbluealliance.org•19 hours ago

Also, let's just cross Walmart off our lists. Like forever.

cpo10za.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills:

“Arizona does not have a law dictating who can use which restroom”!!!

There was zero legal grounds for the cops to have been called, or for them to have entered that restroom & harassed her. Even if she had been a man (or trans) in a woman’s restroom!

smm570.bsky.social•20 hours ago

For the life of me I will never understand why anyone cares about anyone else’s gender identity. Mind your own business. This is scary.

ilovevt.bsky.social•20 hours ago

“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Morton told The Advocate. “That’s what makes this so frustrating. If you think a man is in the restroom, why send male officers instead of female officers?”

curtnaus.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Republicans want to inspect your genitals and track your menstrual cycles.

smm570.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Small government!

tvnred.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The right is passing laws to force people to use the bathroom of their biological sex. So let’s say she had been a trans man…isn’t she supposed to use the women’s restroom?? 🤔

zerogravityy.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Right? And isn’t the alleged problem ‘men dressed as women using women’s restrooms’? In which case it makes no sense to imagine someone you think is ‘too masculine’ to be a transwoman. Of course in the end it’s just about harassing and ejecting noncompliant people because they unsettle us.

tvnred.bsky.social•14 hours ago

You nailed it with that last sentence

womblingweka.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The cops responding to this pathetic complainant is appalling. It's only reinforcing the hatred & discrimination. Disgusting.

reverenddak.bsky.social•15 hours ago

i hope she sues the fuck out of walmart and those cops.

jashsf.bsky.social•20 hours ago

A perfect storm of everything we all said would happen. Yet we still couldn’t breakthrough to so many to actually show up and vote. Hopefully they learned. We shall see. But I am more hopeful now of the frustrated gop voters than our awful apathetic pretend allies that are just keyboard warriors.

getfcked.bsky.social•19 hours ago

some white cnt reported her

ebwell.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Was told a story the other day of a friend of a friend who has cancer and is undergoing chemo. She’s lost her hair. Some idiot in walked into the women’s restroom at Walmart and acted all shocked, saying, this is the women’s room, right?

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