Lawmakers propose bill to jail transgendered

Who use the "wrong" bathroom. Thoughts on this?



An Arizona state legislator wants to make it illegal for transgendered people to go to the bathroom. More accurately, the bill proposed by state Representative John Kavanagh would make it illegal to use public restrooms, dressing rooms, or locker rooms designated with the sex different from that on your birth certificate (which is inaccurate for most transgender people), an offense punishable by six months in jail. The bill’s vote was delayed yesterday after the committee meeting was disrupted by transgender activists and protestors, though Kavanagh said the delay was due to a “paperwork error.”

According to the AP, Kavanagh is worried that anti-discrimination protections for transgender people being passed around the country will “serve as a cover for pedophiles who want to expose themselves to children of the opposite gender.” And his proposed law will supposedly protect businesses from the economic threats posed by transgender rights, such as the cost of installing unisex bathrooms and lawsuits from people pretending to be transgender just to sue local restaurants.

“This law simply restores the law of society: Men are men and women are women,” he reportedly said. “For a handful of people to make everyone else uncomfortable just makes no sense.”

Assuming they actually feel uncomfortable. A transgender teen profiled by The New Yorker recently admitted there was “some awkwardness” about which bathroom he’d use after transitioning from female to male in ninth grade, “but when [he] started using the boys' rest rooms nobody said anything, and that was that.” If a bunch of high schoolers can handle it, surely the good patrons of Arizona's public restrooms can too.



http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/03/az-wants-to-criminalize-peeing-while-trans.html

Absurd. That pretty much sums up my thoughts on that.

And BS on that pedophile nonsense.

Some people are complete idiots.

Thank the gods I live in Canada and we've just passed a bill recognizing full civil rights for transgendered persons under the law.

It's absolutely ridiculous.

Weird. I always thought America had REAL problems to deal with

Quoting The Doctor:" Absurd. That pretty much sums up my thoughts on that. And BS on that pedophile nonsense."

I know that pedophile smurf pissed me off.

archaic thinking.
if someone flashes your kid take them to court-dont take it out against a whole group of different people.
that mentality that puts transgender with pedophiles-just like homosexual with pedophiles-is ridiculous. I cant believe so many people are so closed minded and actually think this is right.

Quoting speaktruth2powr:" Some people are complete idiots. Thank the gods I live in Canada and we've just passed a bill recognizing full civil rights for transgendered persons under the law."

Did we really?!   I just saw this on George Tekais' facebook, I don't really keep up with news aha.

Quoting speaktruth2powr:" Some people are complete idiots. Thank the gods I live in Canada and we've just passed a bill recognizing full civil rights for transgendered persons under the law."

I keep thinking I want to move to another country every time our Lawmakers propose or pass a bill like this, we have complete Morons making decisions.

Quoting Smartass *Preggo!*:" Weird. I always thought America had REAL problems to deal with"

No, no, we have to make up problems to focus on so that we don't have to think about the real ones.

Distract! Distract!

Quoting cunning cuniculi:" I know that pedophile smurf pissed me off. archaic thinking. if someone flashes your kid take them ... [snip!] ... homosexual with pedophiles-is ridiculous. I cant believe so many people are so closed minded and actually think this is right. "

Yeah. Or that nonsense about allowing gay marriage will mean that peodphilia and beastiality will become legal... seriously, horse smurf. haha

Quoting The Doctor:" No, no, we have to make up problems to focus on so that we don't have to think about the real ones. Distract! Distract!"

Lol. Pretty much!

Quoting The Doctor:" Yeah. Or that nonsense about allowing gay marriage will mean that peodphilia and beastiality will become legal... seriously, horse smurf. haha"

But gay marriage is wrong. It'll cause me to divorce my husband for a woman, and make me love my kids less. Don't you know anything?  

It's ignorance. Sad, sad ignorance is all it is.

Quoting Crystal Marie S.:" I keep thinking I want to move to another country every time our Lawmakers propose or pass a bill like this, we have complete Morons making decisions."

Yikes....I read "Morons" and "Mormons" lol.

Yes, the bill passed under a Conservative government no less.

Quoting speaktruth2powr:" Yikes....I read "Morons" and "Mormons" lol. Yes, the bill passed under a Conservative government no less."

Harper also fixed the gay marriage loophole.