Election time lies/exadrations: Dems this time.

Florida Law Would Make It A Crime For Transgender People To Use Public Bathrooms

tl;dr Floridian Republicans have proposed a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for a transgender to go to the wrong bathroom (or any sex segregated area).

On the surface, this looks like more discrimination by the Repubs but there are logical reasons to support this bill and Repubs are actually making said arguments. There's a reason gays have to go to men's areas and lesbians women's. Sexual orientation/identity are irreverent if physical reality disagrees. A homosexual or transgender (that hasn't had a sex change) going into the wrong area is just as inappropriate as a straight person doing the same. This law both avoids awkward situations and keeps perverts from playing the transgender card to legally engage in their predation. The ONLY part of this bill I disagree with (and this is where legislative amendments come in as any civilly minded person would know) is the blanket ban on transgenders. Any transgender that has done a complete sex change should still be bound by this law but as if they were born to their 'sex'. Such people, absent genetic testing and advertising the fact, are indistinguishable from normal people and so forcing them to go to the right areas based on biology alone defeats the purpose.

Of course the bill viewed with legal nuance doesn't damage the Repubs in a swing state (Florida) or discredit the 2 most likely Repub nominees (both Floridians) in a presidential election that the Dems lose their incumbent advantage in (due to Obama terming out). BS like this needs to be called out when it happens and as soon as it happens no matter where it comes from or we'll keep electing bad governments.

reason10 said:

Here's the deal.

If you have a dick, you use the men's room. If you don't have a dick you use the ladies room. Or you stfu and go home.

Problem solved.

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Sure but what if you cut your dick off? Sure there's little risk of sexual issues but you don't see woman being okay letting gays into the bathroom with them.

reason10 said:

I think the medical term is Chopadictomy.

Here's an idea. How about people just STFU and use the right bathroom and quit trying to rewrite what God created?

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The article is about people NOT doing that.

reason10 said:

Let's see. From the first post:



(See, this is where I get the label OLD FART thrown at me more and more. And it's not that I'm getting old. It's that the world is going ****ing nuts.)

The fact that the state of Florida actually had to pass such a bill shows just how ****ed up we are. I'll even go further and suggest that this bill shows just how STUPID parents have become.

What about those little kids who don't immediately gravitate to their traditional roles? How about that little boy who expresses an interest in dolls? How about that little girl who wants to climb trees and play baseball?

What ever happened to a little COMMON SENSE? Let the little bastards alone and let them play. Who's to say the boy who plays with dolls may decided to play with GI Joes and grow up to be a Navy Seal? Who's to say that girl who plays baseball will wind up marrying a baseball player and producing a houseful of kids.

But NOOOOOOO, we have parents who overreact to everything.

"Waaa waaa, my boy was meant to be a girl. How DARE you forbid him from using the girl's room."

PLEASE give me an effin' BREAK!!!

(A really funny comic was doing a bit about an animal necrophilia case in the criminal courts. "They actually had to pass a law to say that ****ing a dead animal was wrong.")

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Sure but that's got nothing to do with the OP. The topic is guys thinking they can use a women's restroom just because they cut off their dicks.

reason10 said:

Well, I'm glad you're finally getting the picture. A chopadictomy does not turn a man into a woman. A sex change operation does not turn a man into a woman, anymore than an Addadicktomy turns a woman into a man.

A man who has undergone a sex change operation is nothing more than a man who has been castrated.

And it's good to know that Florida is one of the few states with our heads on straight.

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Except that was the point I was making in the OP...