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Interesting move from odessa texas

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Hoardasurass · 29/10/2024 19:26

So a city in texas has passed a law that bans people from using the wrong facilities for their sex with a $500 fine for breaking it and private persons can sue the person for $10000.
I wonder if it'll work

https://x.com/babybeginner/status/1850811128626241695

Interesting move from odessa texas
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Pinkissmart · 29/10/2024 21:05

So, there’s a population of people who love guns, and this will let them take the law into their own hands?

I think there should be limits to self declaration, but this is crazy. Fining people? How long before someone gets shot over this?

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Hoardasurass · 29/10/2024 20:57

Pinkissmart · 29/10/2024 20:13

Well that’s not a step in the right direction

In what way?
Whilst I'm not sure how enforceable it'll be I think that its a huge step in the right direction

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PepeParapluie · 29/10/2024 20:29

I also struggle to see whether this will work practically, but if there’s one place it might, it’s probably Texas. Americans are generally quicker to intervene in things I think than the British, and I expect that outside of the ‘woke’ areas (e.g Austin I’m guessing?) there is probably already relatively short shrift for people using the opposite sex’s toilets, so I can see a situation where certain ‘good guy’ types feel the law gives them the standing to enforce this. I’m not sure that’s a good thing in a state so free with guns.

MarieDeGournay · 29/10/2024 20:25

It sounds unworkable, doesn't it? Proving they were the wrong sex, both biologically and legally, calling the cops, getting the correct info from the 'trans-gressor' [see what I did there?😉], administering the fine; or all that and then suing them...

Not to mention the literal martyrs who will keep using the women's toilets just to make a point and get lots of publicity.🙄

It's signalling something I agree with - keeping men out of women's spaces - but unfortunately I can't see this working.

Pinkissmart · 29/10/2024 20:13

Well that’s not a step in the right direction

spannasaurus · 29/10/2024 20:11

I understand that you can't change the sex on your birth certificate in Texas and you can longer change the "gender marker" on other official ID. This should mean that proving the case that a man was using a women's restroom would be fairly easy (at least for those who have Texan ID)