Apple's billion dollar investment directed at allowing men into women's bathrooms

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" Big businesses helped kill the Texas bathroom bill two years ago, targeting it as discriminatory and unnecessary.

They said the legislation, which would have required Texans to use the restrooms that match their sex at birth, would have hampered efforts to woo new companies to the state and turned off convention planners and sports leagues looking at venues for events.

Now, some companies are doubling down on that commitment, citing diversity and inclusivity as factors in their decisions. Apple made this clear Thursday, when it announced a $1 billion investment in the capital city.

The bathroom bill, or something like it, may be back when state lawmakers meet in 2019. But opponents of these restroom regulations say the business community will again give them the ammunition they need to shoot down such divisive legislation.

Don't be silly, Giles.

I wonder if they deleted his comments from the thread he necroed to talk about buying prostituted women too?

Well I didn't miss anythung to major then....

Did we ever get the answer about what besides kidneys and eyes we share with trans woman?

Haha, I asked that question but I didn't see an answer. I knew I should have qualified it with "that we don't share with men"!

Well I didn't miss anythung to major then....

It was quite entertaining...!

I know I'm convinced that when random blokes turn up to tell women off for not wanting naked male bodies in our changing rooms it has nothing to do with the blokes in question being raging misogynists now!

Yes man who buys sex, doesn't see why women shouldn't be coerced to look at penises and acknowledges that women don't really like him, tries to persuade feminists that sex segregation is a bad idea.

As trans allies go, he's probably not the most effective.

Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like hoping that people will die.

Well it proves the point that it really is all about the dicks invading eveeywhere doesn't it.

Men cannot handle being kept out. Nancy why they would literally chop their balls off to get in there.

No wonder they hate lesbians so much

Hence y

The one that made me laugh out loud was kitten's sad reflection that exhorting people to die wasn't really in the Christmas spirit.

I kind of wish in cases like this MNHQ would ban the person but leave their comments up, just for the education of future readers. It really is quite eye opening to see what kind of man thinks cocks in women's spaces is an excellent idea.

It always amazes me that they think they're the only one who's ever had the idea to spend Friday night on MN cos every single woman in the world hates you so you need some wank fodder.

Yes love - that would be every Friday night.

Oh Ereshkigal cross post!

Kitten - it was that funny.

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I mean, at least the Piss Troll is creative.

I mean, at least the Piss Troll is creative.

...Do I want to know about this?

That's the one who pretends to be a woman teacher and, within a couple of posts under the new name, starts on about how they won't let their pupils go to the toilet.

So sad to have missed them!

Meanwhile, our non-deleted friend is presumably hard at work on their upcoming Christmas hit "Baby, If You Have The Bloody Nerve To Complain About Your Rights Being Eroded I Hope You Die Soon".

Think I'll stick with the original, personally.

I'm a bit worried about iced mince pies though, I must say.

That's just uncivilized.

I missed the skull comment. Was that Jane Fae-inspired?

I think my favourite comment was the outrage at the suggestion that the male (she-penises included) sex organ could be used to spread disease & kill.

I think our friends have been shown the door, haven't they? But reading through just wanted to pick up on this:

Assuming 1 in 500 people are transgender, and roughly 65 million people in the UK, then there are 130,000 transgender people in the UK.

Why would we assume this? The trans lobby figures estimate 1% of the population. So 650k.

Assuming half of those are transwomen (this may not be correct, but for the sake of argument) then there are 75,000 transwomen in the UK.

So "for the sake of argument" when he didn't have a clue? Apart from the recent rise in young women identifying as trans and "non binary", I'd personally guess most of these people are male. Speculation though, if slightly more informed by knowledge and experience than Mr PJ.

And also that our main objection was just looking at a penis! (My swipe keyboard doesn't seem to recognise penis and wants to type petunias instead!)

Apparently he thought that grabbing a woman by the "skull" (not sure why he didn't say "head" like a normal person) and physically forcing her head in a particular direction was the only possible thing that could be meant by the suggestion that women would rather not have to see penises in our changing rooms. Because he'd just look away, see.