The fearmongering regarding trans people using public bathrooms that match up with their sense of gender identity is disgusting and absurd.

The people trying to push these bills attempt to create a cartoonish caricature of what they think transgender people even are: some pervert in a bathroom wearing a dress in a Looney Tunes-like act to victimize "real women" and "real men".

It's civic oppression, and invasive to the point that it practically encourages checking a person's gender at the door to see if their physical appearance matches up to artificial expectations of gender. Let me tell you, there are going to be lots of false positives with that kind of criteria.

#^Kansas Bill Would Pay Students A $2,500 Bounty To Hunt For Trans People In Bathrooms

With only two weeks left in the Kansas legislation session, state lawmakers have introduced a pair of bills that would prohibit transgender students from using restrooms that match their gender. The “Student Physical Privacy Act” would apply not only to public schools, but all public universities in the state as well, guaranteeing that anyone who saw someone transgender in the bathroom could sue their school for $2,500 for every time that it happened.

The complementary bills (SB 513 and HB 2737) declare in no uncertain terms that transgender students are going to harm other students just by using the same facility alongside them. “Allowing students to use restrooms, locker rooms and showers that are reserved for students of a different sex will create potential embarrassment, shame, and psychological injury to students,” they read.

#LGBT #Transgender