Tuesday, March 10, 2015

I Think They Need A Good Therapist

When you have a fixation it is not good especially if it is excessive and that how I would describe the conservative fixation on bathrooms. What is with it with them? Is it because they found that it generates campaign donations? Is it because it rallies their base? Or is it because their mind is in the gutter?
Get Ready for the Conservative Assault on Where Transgender Americans Pee
Go to the wrong bathroom and risk a felony charge, 180 days in prison, and a fine of up to $10,000.
Mother Jones
By Sam Brodey and Julia Lurie
Mon Mar. 9, 2015

If lawmakers in Florida, Texas, and Kentucky have their way, transgender people would be breaking the law when using the bathroom of their choice. Bills introduced in three states over the past month would make it illegal for an individual of one biological sex to enter a single-sex restroom or changing room designated for the opposite sex—even if the individual self-identifies as a person who belongs there.

The debate over which bathrooms transgender individuals can use isn't particularly new: Lawmakers in 17 states and more than 200 cities have passed laws prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity, while a handful of states and localities, like Colorado and Arizona, have attempted and failed to pass bills that restrict bathroom usage.

But the latest attempts have the benefit of support from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal advocacy group based in Arizona that has poured legal and lobbying resources into the issue over the past year. ADF, which has a $30 million annual budget and a network of some 2,000 attorneys, takes on many causes dear to the religious right, including opposition to LGBT rights like marriage, military service, and adoption. ADF's defense of "religious freedom" has included a determined, years-long fight to make homosexuality illegal in Belize.
Why do they want to make our lives a living hell? If it is against their religion, fine. I have no problems with that but when they tell me that I cannot live my life because it makes them uncomfortable I have a problem with that.

They say that it violates their religious beliefs but what happens when their religious beliefs violates my religious beliefs and human rights?

There was another article about peeing in peace…
This iPhone app could help solve a real problem for transgender people
An iPhone app has been created to provide a network of toilets where transgender, intersex and gender nonconforming individuals are free to pee in peace.
Pink News
9th March 2015
By Nick Duffy

New location-based app app Refuge Restrooms aims to solve the problem – by creating a network of toilets where trans people can feel safe peeing without judgement.

The app, which has launched this month on iPhone and Android, allows members of the public and business owners to mark unisex and gendered toilets that are accessible to trans people.

It then acts partly like a Grindr for toilets – allowing trans people to see the nearest toilets to them that have been marked as safe to use.
Great! Just what we need an app to make us feel even more insecure. Can I pee here, let me check the app! What will happen when those conservatives find out about the app, will they stakeout the restroom to confront us or photograph us like they did in Massachusetts?

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