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

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UtopiaPlanitia · 02/11/2024 14:22

It’s men who are breaking the long adhered to social code on this issue and if they won’t be stopped by social disapproval, and women stating that they don’t want men in female only spaces, then the next logical step is legal enforcement to prevent them. Men who refuse to respect women’s boundaries caused the escalation.

Kendodd · 02/11/2024 15:07

ReadWithScepticism · 30/10/2024 08:13

Criminalising wrong-sex toilet use is hostile gimmickry and certainly not something that I would like to see in the UK. It is unworkable and doesn't even address the actual problem, as opposed to the imagined problem.
The actual problem, in the UK at least, is that service providers (such as shop owners, gym management, etc), are no longer confident that it is legal for them to provide single-sex facilities, or to enforce single-sex facilities by means of the usual methods (asking someone to leave, terminating their membership etc).

The issue has never been one of actively policing the admission of people into facilities which, (as TRAs are keen to point out ) would be oppressive and unworkable. It is simply about clarifying the responsibility and the leeway that facility providers have to keep on doing what they have always done.

As I recall, Liz Truss's private members bill went down the criminalisation route, and that was one of the ways in which it was pure grandstanding, aimed at fanning flames and virtue signalling rather than at protecting women.

Yes, I agree.
This attitude and more public toilets is what we need.

Echobelly · 02/11/2024 15:13

My money is on this having 0 effect on statistics of sex assaults in public toilets, although it probably will increase the number of physical or verbal assaults on women in toilets who have short hair, have deep voices or are tall. Nice work. Really helping women there.

commonsense61 · 02/11/2024 20:20

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AlisonDonut · 03/11/2024 07:50

Echobelly · 02/11/2024 15:13

Oh well we'd best do nothing then.

commonsense61 · 03/11/2024 08:34

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