The legislation takes aim directly at trans individuals using the restroom or locker rooms, threatening those who “knowingly” and “willfully” enter facilities designated for the “opposite biological sex” with prison time. A first offense would count as a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. Those caught using the bathroom in repeated offenses, however, could be convicted as felons and face up to five years in prison.

It’ll be interesting to see how this aligns with the Full Faith and Credit clause for someone who updates their birth certificate from another state that allows for that then uses the bathroom that aligns with said certificate.

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    I’d be shocked if Idaho had bathrooms as nice as the picture in the whole state.

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    I live in Idaho, and the comments here are as ignorant as ever.

    If you are trans/different/nonconservative in any way, let me say this very, very clearly:

    THEY WANT YOU DEAD.

    Not in prison, not a slave, not a member of society at all.

    They want you DEAD.

    Stop pussyfooting around this. Passing laws like this is merely a step towards their true goals. I am not being melodramatic, I cannot ring the warning bell hard enough after the conversations I have had with conservatives here. They are doing everything they can to slow-burn us into massacring our own people and even WANTING to think the best of these bad-faith psychos is bad FOR US ALL including THEM. They are essentially children that have been taught that having any moral code is weakness and that lying and cheating is strength. They do NOT have positive intentions and they ARE thinking about the long game. You will not convince them of anything using just words and arguments, not unless you find a way to put a LOT of money in their pockets, and you would have to first convince them that Trump didn’t already do exactly that.

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      Can we maybe not put down minority groups while trying to support different minorities?

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        You do know that the India government had to do a campaign to say “poop on the toilet”, right? And 1200 million people is not a minority.

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          Again, how is a public health campaign relevant to the discussion? You just like taking pot shots for no reason, I don’t post about Americans eating so much processed food we have wheelchairs to get around a grocery store but somehow can’t feed school children.

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            “Trans people can’t go to the bathroom” -> “will they have to pee on the street?”

            Is it clearer now?

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    Do they include a definition of “biological sex”? And of how that’s going to be determined?

    Of course not. They have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. They just want to hurt people

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        If it comes up in court, I guess they’ll be forced to specify if they’re defining biological sex by chromosomes, genitalia, or some other biological feature. Unfortunately, the law was made by people who are completely oblivious to the complexity of biological sex. This is why people shouldn’t be allowed to make laws without knowing the science if these things. Same thing with anti-abortion laws being made by people who don’t understand biology

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      Ah, those will be felonies too. The point is to make it illegal to exist if you’re trans. And the point of that is cruelty, an insatiable need that Republicans have.

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    Jaysus christo this is fucking weird and insane. And there is such an obvious, easy answer for the whole “problem” (of course there is no actual problem, this is insane fear mongering and hatred, but still…)

    America: GIVE PEOPLE (ALL PEOPLE) PRIVACY IN PUBLIC BATHROOMS. Stop using “stalls” with gaps so large there may as well not be any dividers. Just look at a European bathroom where the toilets are in their own small rooms with doors that run from floor to ceiling. Seriously, you could remove the gender separation entirely and it wouldn’t affect anything.