I’m seeing jobs for the retirees. Manning the bathroom doors to make sure none of them “queerosexuals” go to the wrong bathrooms.
I think the easiest thing is for everyone to wear a skirt/kilt and go commando. Put a camera about 3 feet off the ground linked to the lock on the bathroom door. Flip up your skirt/kilt, AI verifies your naughty bits and unlocks the door or calls the police.
Wait, the same AIs that think “3-13 or so” is a normal amount of fingers for a human hand, are going to tally our tallywackers? Nothing could possibly go wrong there.
Not that I want to put the burden on the oppressed, but I do see an opportunity for a 60s Civil Rights-type movement here, where as many very male-presenting FtM transsexuals as are willing, from other states, are flown in in groups to go to the bathrooms of their birth-assigned gender in Florida.
Well, I guess we could use GOP politicians and the Libs of TikTok - they seem to have the interest in other people’s genitalia the job requires (although we’ll need a lot of them, which is why I was looking to automate it).
I’m figuring that the next law will be one requiring transgender people to wear some sort of identifier whenever they are out in public, maybe a yellow star.
I’m thinking pink triangle…
No I think the idea is that such a man would be hassled and beaten up for going into the woman’s restroom, would have to risk being arrested if he went into the Men’s and so would probably just try not go out in public very often. Making it inconvenient and uncomfortable for such men is part of the point
Not stationed, but there are enough “Good Christian” busy-bodies diffused randomly in the population to target anyone who looks like they might a off.
Which is in their mind best thing about them. The whole point of such laws is to legalize individual prejudices. How else are you going to make sure that the laws only apply to the undesirables.
I have a friend who is a non-gender-conforming man. He uses “he” pronouns, but dresses in women’s clothing, enjoys carrying a cute purse, that kind of thing.
He uses the men’s room. But often, a startled man will see him, and say, “excuse me, ma’am, i think you are in the wrong restroom.” He turns to them and says sadly, “I’m afraid there isn’t really a right restroom for me”. And because he’s totally legal in the state he lives in, and most people aren’t assholes to strangers, that’s generally the end of it.
But i image he won’t be visiting many of these states. And the guys citizens of those states will be spared having to share a restroom with anyone who doesn’t nearly conform to their prejudices.
We just need to get rid of urinals, make all public bathrooms single-use or include privacy stalls, and get rid of genders on them.
Forget the social implications, it’s just more efficient to do that. “By the way, the men’s room is out of order, guess you have to go poop in the bushes.”
Yes, gender-neutral public restrooms are great. You just need stalls that actually provide privacy. They can even include urinals if there’s appropriate screening in place. (Or if the men don’t care.)
Why, it’ll be just like the glory days of yore when bathrooms were for ‘whites’ or ‘coloreds’, it’ll all be about what you can pass as. Something something the South shall rise again!
This is a feature, not a bug.
Oh that is poetry.
…while I understand where the “how is this going to be enforced” question comes from, it misses the point here.
This is what cultural genocide looks like. They don’t want trans people to exist. This is where it has all been heading. It will be enforced by fear. Trans people in Florida will only have a handful of options: de-transition, not go out in public, go into hiding, or leave the state. And even if trans kids leave the state:
When I first lived in Seoul, oh so many years ago, I went on a double date to a dinner and show event at, IIRC, the Sheraton Hotel. 'Twas a very nice place. Well, I had occasion to use the loo. The restaurant staff politely pointed me to the correct place and off to said desitnation I went. I was amused that instead of individual urinals, there was one of those long “pee troughs” such as were in the outhouses at Boy Scout camp. I was using the trough when my date and my friend’s date came into the loo, said “Hi” to me, and headed for the stalls. I was very surprised! Turns out that the place was a unisex toilet–long before Ally MacBeal got ahold of the concept.
So long as people aren’t going into the same stall together, why not just make all bathrooms stalls only? Plus, urinals are disgusting.
Many of the ferries in the Seattle area use those (or at least did when I used to ride them, maybe it changed recently). I’ve also used them at the White River Amphitheater for a concert, and I think the King Dome had them before it was blown up.
They aren’t that weird to me, not unless it’s REALLY crowded and you’re actually squeezed between two other dudes trying to pee. Then it’s weird.
Do these anti-transgender bathroom laws also outlaw unisex bathrooms?
Pretty sure some of them do.
Wrigley Field in Chicago also features a trough like that. Or at least it did. I haven’t been there since the recent renovations.