Which one of you cowards is Ferd Sheed?

[classicman]

...Take your pic

[DanaC]

hheheh. The top one is good.

[xoxoxoBruce]

At this link is a 3meg PDF of the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. The article, which is worth reading is, "Defining the Human: Are Transgender People Strangers to the Law", by Abigail W. Lloyd.

From twitter...

[tw]

Orlando woman will take her gun into Target bathrooms to protect herself from trans people.

Only way she can have effective protection is to not wipe.

[BigV]

I think the law passed at the state level in NC was the overreaction by a (relatively) small group of homophobes.

Why else craft a state law that reversed the city ordinance allowing transgendered people to use the bathroom that suited their gender AND also forbade all local jurisdictions in the state from passing any rules offering protection from harassment of or discrimination against people in the LGBTQ community?

Get people fired up about going pee pee next to someone with visible facial hair, but make the functional heart of the law an explicit endorsement of discrimination based on gender identity. Pure power grab by the chicken shit haters with power.

[DanaC]

British LGBT travellers are being warned about the potential risks of travelling to some parts of the USA:

[Griff]

Hi, my name is Griff. I live in the third world.

[infinite monkey]

a/s/l?

[Griff]

'Merica

[Spexxvet]

I wish the South had won the Civil War. They should rot on their own.

[Clodfobble]

It's an interesting thought. We have so, so many fictional stories surrounding "What if the Nazis had won WWII?", but none that I know of about what would have happened if the American Civil War had gone the other way.

It's easy to picture the south as just being what we think of as "The South" today, but at the time most of Southern California was also on the Confederate side, including Los Angeles, and in fact had already peacefully voted to create separate Northern/Southern California states, but then the actual Civil War broke out and all that kind of fell by the wayside.

You'd be paying a lot more for your citrus fruits, if the Confederacy had won, is all I'm saying.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You mean you and Sheldon would be Rebs.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

It's an interesting thought. We have so, so many fictional stories surrounding "What if the Nazis had won WWII?", but none that I know of about what would have happened if the American Civil War had gone the other way.

Harry Turtledove made a pretty good living doing that.

[Happy Monkey]

My question is whether there's anything that people are worried a transgender person would do to them or their children in the bathroom that they'd be OK with any other stranger doing to them or their children in the bathroom.

[DanaC]

I do find this whole thing slightly baffling to be honest. I could sort of understand if the existing laws prohibited people going into bathrooms that did not match their gender at birth and there was a movement to overturn those laws, that some people wuold find that unsettling and oppose the loosening of restrictions. What I cannot get my head around is why anybody would seek to impose new restrictions - has there been a flurry of incidents in which either trans gender people caused trouble by going into the 'wrong' bathroom, or in which non-transgender people went into the other gender's bathroom to peep or abuse under the cover of a pretended transgender status?

It seems to be legislation for no real reason other than that, with the growth of transgender identities in the mainstream, some people feel icky at the thought.