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In our small-brained baboon-butt red state of Utah, the "esteemed" legislatures just passed a bill making it illegal for trans people to use public bathrooms. I guess that means trans people can shit wherever they want to in public.
This kind of nutjob small brained bigotry is ruining our country and embarrasssing us gloablly. Other countries see these anti-human laws and realize we're crumbling and don't really stand behind our American "values" or our consitution.
You would hope this is the case but in reality the right-wing nutjobs everywhere just copy/paste US culture war idiocy, usually even without making the slithest necessary adaption to make them fit.
There was a documentary on LGBT rights in I think Nigeria and they were showing an interview of the religious leader talking about why being gay was an abomination etc etc. along with a guy who was for those rights.
The religious leader, in a very thick African accent says, "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve."
One of the points that the film was making was how conservative think tanks actually try to push their agenda outside of the US. Because you sure as hell know that religious leader didn't come up with that argument on their own.
Nigeria is not my idea of a well educated country anyway - and their very deleterious and harmful view of human sexuality is no doubt skewed by years of intervening stupid "christian" missionary shit being shoveled at them.
And that religious leader (who obviously is about as bright as a toothpick) is wrong. IT IS ADAM AND EVE, AND ADAM AND STEVE, AND ADAM AND EVE AND STEVE AND GENEVIEVE. According to the bible, the "lord god" made them ALL.
Conservative think tanks are nothing but excremtental "Its" that stink excuses. We have a particularly vile and nasty one here in Utah called "the Eagle forum." And everyday their ultra conservative and embarrassingly under-educated members are on TV spouting off about the harms of sex education and of teaching kids anything other than white nationalist history.
THIS is the cesspool that America and the world has become. These are the nitwits and nutjobs who get heard, not the people who really have intelligence and compassion and understanding and smarts.
It's true that the right wing nutjobbery has been copy pasted all over the place, many countries I once respected and considered visting are now dungheaps in my view. America has failed, that much is clear - the American experiment is over. My family is leaving, we've decided to go to a south American country where cost of living is easier and we can watch America die from a distance.
Religion, especially in the United States, embarrasses us all.
It truly is the most evil thing that's ever been invented. There is nothing has ruined and destroyed more lives than religious nutjobbery.
Just use the bathroom anyway and if they try to arrest you, just sue them and/or shoot them.
I would recommend nonviolent protest but these people don't care and thus can't be manipulated by such means
That'll be an easy civil rights win, but still symbolic of how pathetic we've become as a country.
You gotta get schwifty!
Idk, Utah's pretty decent. Its definitely modernizing sowly but still stumbles, like your example I didn't know what you were talking about, so here's the story for anyone else
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/utah-joins-10-states-regulating-bathroom-access-transgender-people-rcna136521
Basically, people are supposed to use the "sex assigned at birth" in government/public school buildings.
Shits fucking dumb, but I bet nobody is checking ids at bathrooms and nobody has to shit on the streets. I hope they revert this dumb law but I think I think honesty about situations is important.
At best, anyone who voted for this bill is too dumb to be writing the rules for society, and at worst, it's deliberate in its cruelty.
So you're probably right, and they won't have an armed guard doing genitalia pat-downsvat the intrance, but what about the person who has worked somewhere for a few years and is just now transitioning? Now, at least 4-5 times a day, they're reminded that they are less-than in the eyes of the government. If they try to use the restroom for their assigned sex, they end up looking like they are using the wrong restroom to anyone who doesn't know their story and worried about a dangerous encounter with law enforcement. If they try to use the restroom for the gender they present as, they have to worry about anyone who does know their story forcing an encounter with law enforcement.
100% think fuck the law, its an embarassment.
Guess I just hate how exaggerated things get online nowadays. So much more productive to have an honest conversation rather than say " I guess that means trans people can shit wherever they want to in public" imo
Utah sucks monkey shit. It's the worst place in the world to live, and I've lived in third world countries with open trenches for sewers. Utah stinks to heaven above, and is the #1 spot for corruption and legislative stupidity in the entire world.
Utah stinks, and so do all the baboons in charge here. And once I live, I will slam that door and NEVER look back, Utah can sink back into the sewage of salty brine it rose out of for all I care.