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This makes me want to puke. Fuck your individual liberty, we're going to invade your personal space so hard by letting the state into your pants, and if you don't match up to what the state wants, we'll imprison you for it. Yaaay fascism!

#^Alabama City Approves Ordinance Imprisoning Trans People Who Use Public Bathrooms

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The Oxford, Alabama, city council unanimously approved an ordinance on Tuesday that bars trans people from using any public bathroom that doesn’t match the sex indicated on their birth certificate. Because changing one’s birth certificate is difficult in many states (including Alabama) and impossible in others, the measure effectively proscribes trans people in Oxford from using any bathroom outside of their house. Trans people who violate the ordinance may be imprisoned for up to six months.


#transgender #lgbt #fascism #liberty

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>> Sean Tilley:

“[...] the measure effectively proscribes trans people in Oxford from using any bathroom outside of their house [...]”

That isn't really true, though. They must use the designated bathroom for their sex, just like everyone else.

Benjamin Cook at 2016-04-28T23:56:57Z

@deadsuperhero@identi.ca Sounds like civil disobedience time. Time for everyone in the area that supports Trans rights to remove all gender designations from all bathrooms.. And keep doing it till the bonehead bigots get the message.

Freemor at 2016-04-29T00:08:52Z

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>> Benjamin Cook:
That isn't really true, though. They must use the designated bathroom for their sex, just like everyone else.”


Which means that you're going to have extremely female looking people risking harassment in men's bathrooms and extremely male looking people making everybody else unconfortable in women's bathrooms?


That doesn't look like a good outcome for anybody.


(And probably also a risk of harassment in women's bathrooms and unconfortableness men's bathrooms, but I believe the other way around is going to happen more often)

Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-04-29T11:37:16Z

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As a side effect, there are going to be lots of false positives. Men are not always hyper-masculine, and women are not always hyper-feminine. Have fun trying to guess what someone's birth gender is based on how they look!

Sean Tilley at 2016-04-29T22:42:42Z

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