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The legislation takes aim directly at trans individuals using the restroom or locker rooms, threatening those who “knowingly” and “willfully” enter facilities designated for the “opposite biological sex” with prison time. A first offense would count as a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. Those caught using the bathroom in repeated offenses, however, could be convicted as felons and face up to five years in prison.

It'll be interesting to see how this aligns with the Full Faith and Credit clause for someone who updates their birth certificate from another state that allows for that then uses the bathroom that aligns with said certificate.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 points 46 minutes ago

Plenty of Pedo Protectors and Pedos in the red run Idaho oblast.

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago

Only pedophiles would think about children's dicks as much as Republicans do.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

A felony? LOL

I wonder if they are smart enough to put exceptions in for children where the father or mother may possibly take the child into the 'wrong' bathroom.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago

Wait til some MAGA Dad gets arrested for this

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Right wingers are all such goddamn freaks I swear.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 42 minutes ago

And snowflakes

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 20 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Is this a girl toilet or a guy toilet?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

is it a Toto or American Standard?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 14 minutes ago

Toto drake 2 for the win!

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That's actually a really easy answer.

It's female.

les toilettes - in french.

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's male in Spanish lol. Does that make toilets non-binary?

el baño / el inodoro

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe we need to go by where it was manufactured, and maybe they should come with labels etched into the porcelain so they don't get mis-gendered and placed incorrectly?

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We could issue certificates at the time they're manufactured

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I dunno, if we do that it might cause some black market certificate situation with people trying to unlawfully place male toilets in the female bathrooms.

[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How boring and stupid do you need to be to make this your legislative priority?

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 41 minutes ago

Its not boring and stupid, it's hateful and bigoted

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

I mean Republicans can't govern. So if they weren't persecuting a minority to appease their bigot base, what would they be doing?

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Do they include a definition of “biological sex”? And of how that’s going to be determined?

Of course not. They have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. They just want to hurt people

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

The people making this law have no idea that there are people who are biologically intersex and, if told, will dismiss it as irrelevant because they're "a tiny minority". Deaf people are also a small minority and it's common practice to accommodate them. All people should be considered when making a law with the threat of jail time.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What about intersex people... can they go in both?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

If it comes up in court, I guess they'll be forced to specify if they're defining biological sex by chromosomes, genitalia, or some other biological feature. Unfortunately, the law was made by people who are completely oblivious to the complexity of biological sex. This is why people shouldn't be allowed to make laws without knowing the science if these things. Same thing with anti-abortion laws being made by people who don't understand biology

[–] Quexotic 4 points 3 hours ago

The cruelty is and has always ever been the point.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 29 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Oooh! Oooh! I remember this one!

Next, businesses will have to create a separate restroom that says "TRANS ONLY" so things can be "separate but equal"...

ಠ_ಠ

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I would be weirdly fine with a trans bathroom as long as cis people genuinely can't enter it... We would keep that shit immaculate and safe. Tiny little safe space with sinks and mirrors and toiletries and supportive allies anywhere you go.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Except now you have a situation where armed individuals who masturbate to the 2nd amendment will wait idly by the TRANS ONLY bathroom for someone to walk out of it, murder the person who walked out of it, and say they feared for their lives because they tried to "groom them".

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

At least in that situation the Trans person/people could reasonably expect the business/establishment to be an ally. That's assuming there is no law that says there has to be a Trans only bathroom, any place which installs one would probably only be doing that because they're an ally or Trans themselves. Now what your describing happening to businesses/establishments which are supportive of Trans people I can totally see happening.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

I mean, yes, obviously, I am all too aware of the larger safety issues and societal issues of "separate but equal"

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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It’ll be interesting to see how this aligns with the Full Faith and Credit clause for someone who updates their birth certificate from another state that allows for that then uses the bathroom that aligns with said certificate.

Only if the bill mentions birth certificate as the source for one's "biological sex" and not something about genotype or phenotype at birth (both of which have different issues).

I guess the right response to this is to get the absolute manliest-looking trans men to Idaho to use the public ladies' room in places frequented by lots of the most fragile GOP-types. Monkey's paw that shitstain of a bill.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Only if the bill mentions birth certificate as the source for one’s “biological sex” and not something about genotype or phenotype at birth (both of which have different issues).

Right, and what is the documentation that legally expresses that? A birth certificate. Seems really easy to say "I went to the bathroom that aligns with my birth certificate with the good faith intent to follow the law." People can't see their genotype or phenotype with their eyeballs, so relying on that document seems the best a lay person can do. Seems a good faith to follow the birth certificate, whatever it may be modified to.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago

All of that is fair, except for one thing: you absolutely can see phenotype. It being observable characteristics is literally part of the definition. The pheno- prefix has a Greek root meaning to show or display, same origin as in phenomenon. A phenotype is thus categorizing something based on how it appears.

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Man, I did not know Idaho was so dominated by lunatics.

northern idaho is nazi paradise. southern idaho is mormons. boise has some sanity but it's a lone island

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

As a Canadian, I could have guessed... There's a sort of obvious pattern that's emerged over the last couple of decades involving the less populated areas being the most deathly afraid of the world at large, thanks in large part to the sample biases incepted through social media.

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