Trans Men Are Our Saviors

They are the ones who can show the idiocy of the Republican pogrom against us! Eighteen states have laws that restrict our access, and three states have laws with criminal penalties!

Trans man schools lawmakers on why “bathroom bills” are ridiculous & dangerous

The bill passed the Idaho House anyway, despite even cops agreeing that the law was unworkable.

LGBTQ Nation

Greg Owen

March 18, 2026

A trans man in Idaho dismantled the latest “bathroom bill” up for a vote in the Idaho legislature, laying out point by point why it was unworkable, unfair, and cruel.

Boise resident Nixon Matthews used his own example of trying to use a restroom if the bill were enacted into law.

“I want to walk through what this looks like for me,” he told legislators at a hearing on House Bill 752.

“Say, one of the men here walks into the men’s bathroom, and you see me walk into a stall, and you know I’m trans. And since you’re all law-abiding citizens, you’re going to call 911. You’re going to say, ‘Hello, 911? There’s a trans person in the bathroom. They’re peeing right now, I’m scared. Please come and arrest them.'”

We need you! We need trans men to go to the bathroom in the Capitol, by the governor's office, and by the Republican legislative offices!

If he doesn’t want to be arrested, Matthews said, he’d have to use a women’s room instead.

“Say I happen to walk behind a woman, and her husband sees someone who looks like me following his wife into the bathroom,” Matthews continued. “What do you think happens next? Maybe the cops get called. But more likely, that man is going to follow me into the bathroom, confront me, and even assault me.”

“So every single day,” Matthews said, “when I’m out in public, I have to decide: do I feel like going to jail today, or do I feel like being attacked?”

To my trans men friends: obey the law!

Go to the most upscale restaurant in your nicest suit and tie! Get arrested and sue the pants off of them for false arrest!

If he doesn’t want to be arrested, Matthews said, he’d have to use a women’s room instead.

“Say I happen to walk behind a woman, and her husband sees someone who looks like me following his wife into the bathroom,” Matthews continued. “What do you think happens next? Maybe the cops get called. But more likely, that man is going to follow me into the bathroom, confront me, and even assault me.”

“So every single day,” Matthews said, “when I’m out in public, I have to decide: do I feel like going to jail today, or do I feel like being attacked?”

The Republicans live in their little fantasy world, where they justified all these draconian laws by saying a man could dress up as a woman to rape women in the bathroom. But to show you how stupid the Republicans are: now, the men who want to rape women don't need to dress up like a woman. Thanks to the Republicans, they can now just walk into a women's bathroom and say they are trans and just obeying the law.