(07-17-2017 05:54 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(07-17-2017 12:33 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  You don't have a right to be 'comfortable'. And if you do, it shouldn't outweigh someone else's right to participate in society. The right you seem to be thinking I'm ignoring would be similar to someone advocating for criminal penalties for criticizing Trump (or Obama). You might be uncomfortable with it, but tough ****.

Nobody is denying anyone's right to participate in society. Cut the hyperbolic BS.

They can still pee, they just have to do it in the room that fits their equipment. I fail to see how that is much of an imposition on anyone.

I'm fine with post-ops using the room that fits their post-op status. Tying it to birth certificate is stupid. And I oppose any bill that ties any sort of occupational or other discrimination to the bathroom provisions. But a bathroom provision standing alone doesn't deprive anyone of the right to pee or poop.

Actually the Texas Bill does NOT mandate that Trans people use the bathroom consistent with their equipment. It mandates that people use the restroom consistent with the equipment they were BORN with, not as they have now.

So, if you support the Texas Bathroom Bill, or the politicians who support it, youre exposing Trans people to violence (imagine the male with a ***** in the ladies room), unjustified arrest, and extreme harassment. And it will make it HARDER not easier for entities to keep males out of the ladies room. All the Texas bill does is expose Trans persons to abuse. And business owners are going to get sued left and right. Call the police on a man in the ladies room? If that man was born a female, hello lawsuit.

The Texas Bill and the Mississippi Law don't keep men out of the ladies room, but rather MANDATES it.

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Part of your issue is that you fundamentally mistake what you want the law to be, with what it actually is.