As Arte Johnson used to say. Utah passed a trans bathroom ban and something very interesting happened.
The New York PostBy Patrick ReillyMay 5, 2024Utah officials say they have been inundated with more than 4,000 bogus complaints of transgender people using public bathrooms just 72 days after the state launched a program to report such instances.“We didn’t see anything that looks credible,” Utah Auditor John Dougall told The Salt Lake City Tribune.The auditor’s office created an online complaint form in order to comply with the state’s controversial “Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying and Women’s Opportunities” bill, which was signed into law in January and mandates Utahns only use the bathroom matching their reproductive organs.Under the law, which went into effect May 1, the state auditor’s office was ordered to “establish a process to receive and investigate alleged violations of this chapter” by the government.If the violation goes unresolved, the auditor must refer the issue to the Utah attorney general’s office who can impose fines up to $10,000 “per violation per day” on the government entity found at fault.[…]Those who’ve undergone costly gender reassignment surgery and have had their gender changed on their birth certificates are exempt.
The Gender Police is on the job… drop your drawers! How else are they going to find out what’s between your legs.
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The Potty Police has to check what's between you legs!
The state auditor’s office apparently didn’t anticipate that asking the public to help enforce its anti-trans bathroom ban would result in thousands of memes and nonsense submissions.MSNBCMay 4, 2024, 3:06 PM EDTBy Clarissa-Jan LimIn an attempt to crowdsource enforcement of an anti-trans bathroom law that went into effect this week, Utah’s state auditor has rolled out an online complaint form to report trans people in bathrooms.Released on Wednesday, the so-called hotline complaint form allows people to report alleged violations of House Bill 257, which requires individuals to use restrooms and changing rooms in government buildings that correspond with their sex assigned at birth.[…]The complaint form has so far proven to be a bust. Several people posted screenshots to the social media platform X showing them trolling the form with memes and other nonsensical submissions. By Friday, the state auditor’s office had received nearly 4,000 complaints, Utah Auditor John Dougall told The Salt Lake Tribune —all of which appear to be fake. “We didn’t see anything that looks credible,” Dougall said. “For example, if they have my name as a complainant, you know, I’m not complaining.”
You can rest easily tonight knowing that the Gender Police is on the job!
Utah is not the first state to seek the public’s help in enforcing anti-LGBTQ measures. As journalist Erin Reed reported, when Indiana unveiled a similar “snitch line” in February to report schools that were teaching “political ideology,” the portal was spammed with jokes and memes. Last year, Missouri had a similar anti-trans “snitch line” website crash after it was spammed with users who uploaded the script of “The Bee Movie.”
Boy those hot lines are inviting lawsuits for slander and libel, the Salt Lake Tribune writes,
“Apparently Utah’s solution to people feeling unsafe in restrooms is to encourage folks to take photos of & focus extreme attention on the private parts of others who are taking care of a biological need to eliminate waste? What could go wrong?” she wrote in a post.
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