Summary
Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested at the Florida State Capitol after intentionally entering a women’s restroom in protest of the state’s transgender bathroom law.
Civil rights lawyers say it is the first known arrest under such laws in any U.S. state.
Rheintgen faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge and could face up to 60 days in jail.
Florida is one of only two states to criminalize such acts.
Gotta be fascist AF to think this is some kind of legitimate oppression.
How is that fascist?
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived
What you are, is uneducated
I’m sorry, what? Is it not a ultranationalist political ideology to write laws oppressing people because they are different than you and constantly using America as your belief system (Make America Great Again)? Laws that quote “natural social hierarchy” of men and women when science and nature prove constantly that there are variations?
No. No. I think it is you who is the uneducated one. The one without critical literacy or a lens to see the enactment of fascism. Germany was not the first or the last, and this is just another rise to the idea of fascism.
Some of it is just based on logistics. A sports venue for example would have a hard time converting their bathrooms to gender neutral, and the reality is that “men’s rooms” can be more space efficient due the focus on urinals.
But I find it completely ridiculous when a restaurant has two single occupancy bathrooms, one marked men and one marked women.
Not a nightmare, no, but it’s definitely a problem that needs solving. As it is you have lines out both doors. If you open both bathrooms to either gender you significantly decrease the efficiency of the “men’s room” since you’re going to have a line of people who can’t use urinals stopping people from getting to the urinals.
You could design facilities to make it work, but our current facilities would be significantly less efficient.
A lot of them are gender neutral nowadays. I see them all the time, though I do live in a very progressive and queer-friendly neighborhood and city. When my local university tried to do this in a new dorm, a bunch of far-right idiots from out of town tried to start a big stink about it.
I do NOT want that girl going in a man’s bathroom!! If any woman’s going to be attacked in a bathroom, it’s her… she’s young, petite and gorgeous. It’s so wrong
That is how many cis men think, and we are talking about her risk going into a space where there frequently won’t be any other witnesses.
It is not a weird thing to say, it is a relevant point.
there’s always an incel trying to be a white knight….
“oh m’lady, you’re so young, petite, and gorgeous, i will protect thee!”
i will add that, trans women are much more vulnerable and at risk in a men’s bathroom than a cis woman is with a trans woman in the women’s restroom…
she’s young, petite and gorgeous. It’s so wrong
They deliberately choose that pic so you can sympathize
In real life you can tell she’s a trans and not that pretty (by female attractiveness standards)
https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-woman-arrested-florida-bathroom
Disagree about what?
The difference between the picture used by article in OP and the second in my link is undeniable
Taste is subjective matter of course but in one pic you can barely tell she’s transexual while in the other you can clearly tell she was a man.
She is gorgeous, but let’s not create a false bar of its ok if you’re pretty. We also have a story circulating right now in Florida about a very tall cis woman being harassed for using the women’s bathroom and BEING FIRED FROM HER JOB FOR NOT REPORTING IT RIGHT.
We all need a place to take a shit. Pretty or not.
I don’t understand the argument for attacks in restrooms. How often does that happen in America?
And how is it that separate washrooms are supposed to prevent it? If a man is going to attack a woman ina restroom, is a sign saying they aren’t allowed in really going to stop them if no one else is around?
These laws are stupid and pointless, full stop. There are already plenty of existing laws against doing the sort of things that would actually be harmful. Just having a law to stop someone from entering the “wrong” restroom is stupid because there are plenty of reasons why someone might need to do so, even if they aren’t trans or intersex or whatever. Just entering a restroom is not harmful to anyone. And as you point out, this law doesn’t stop them if they have the intent to do harm. All it serves to do is give the people in authority an easy way to punish a group they’ve identified as “bad”.
I don’t want people being attacked in bathrooms period. Men’s bathrooms are not supposed to be lawless dens of brutal violence, just places to fucking pee, poop and wash hands.
I’ve seen girls that looked below 10 in men’s bathroom. The women’s had a massive queue. Literaly no one cared, she went into cubicle, came out, washer her hands and left. No drama.
But I guess I live in civilised world.
Segregated bathrooms were done away with by the civil rights laws of the 1960’s
Conservative bitches are jealous that Marcy is hotter than all of them.
🙄OMG, let’s turn the tables and ban these conservative trolls from ALL bathrooms! Why should they have the privilege of relieving themselves when they’re relieving us of our basic human rights? They can hold it in until they burst, for all I care. Trump is literally kill ing trans people. What’s next is he gonna TARIFF them as well? 🙄
Trans girls are the true embodiments of womanhood, and these closed-minded fools are just scared of what they don’t understand. Their fear is a pathetic attempt to maintain a fake sense of power. Let’s give them a taste of exclusion and see how they like it.
Everyone else can go bathe in their own bigotry. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
