AP NewsBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUMApril 3, 2025A transgender college student declared “I am here to break the law” before entering a women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol and being led out in handcuffs by police. Civil rights attorneys say the arrest of Marcy Rheintgen last month is the first they know of for violating transgender bathroom restrictions passed by numerous state legislatures across the country.Capitol police had been alerted and were waiting for Rheintgen, 20, when she entered the building in Tallahassee March 19. They told her she would receive a trespass warning once she entered the women’s restroom to wash her hands and pray the rosary, but she was later placed under arrest when she refused to leave, according to an arrest affidavit.Rheintgen faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge punishable by up to 60 days in jail and is due to appear in court in May.
Now she told them that she was going to do it but how otherwise would they have known?
Her arrest comes as many Republican-led states that have enacted restroom restrictions grapple with how to enforce them. Laws in Alabama, Kansas, Kentucky and North Dakota do not spell out any enforcement mechanism, and even the state laws that do largely rely on private individuals to report violations.
What are the potty police going to do? Everyone drop their draws to be inspected, but then they would catch those who had GCS. What they are really doing is going after those who don't look female and they are going to net a lot cis-women. How embarrassing will that be for a cis-woman who gets netted.
Question: How will they know that the person walking into a bathroom is trans? The Advocate reported,
The officers initially told Rheintgen they would only issue a notice to appear before the judge and release her. They subsequently declared her unsuitable for release and arrested her after she became “sassy,” and they feared she would try to use the restroom again, according to the arrest affidavit.
You go girl!
Just think for a moment, they are not going to arrest any trans woman who passes, it will be trans woman like me who are immediately identified as trans. Also what will happen with someone like me down in Florida, my birth certificate say "female" the Constitution says,
Article IVSection 1Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
My state recognizes me as female so I would assume that all the other states have to also recognizes me female in their states because Article IV, Section 1.
I think that we should take a page out of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s and 70s and have massive arrest like they did with the lunch counter sit-ins. Have a line of trans women who one at a time go in the bathroom to be arrested. Just flood their judicial systems.
How many Transgender folks can fit in the bathrooms through-out Florida. Line up to take a pee. One hundred arrested in Tallahassee, 50 in Miami, more in St. Pete. We shall overcome someday. Perhaps folks have been relying on the democrats too much and forgot the lessons of the sit-ins, the take-overs and the WE Shall NOT Be Moved. If you want to be free forget cutsie at the State Capitol. That show contains too much of the I and not enough of the We which is nothing more than bait for the fascists.
ReplyDeleteForgot to add my name. I agree with Diana 100%.
DeleteI agree 100 % Take over those rest rooms ladies. There yours as much as they are anyone else's.
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