Dude don't look like no lady.....
Sean Patrick Smith, a.k.a. Shauna Patricia Smith (Image source: Bonneville County Jail)
If the woman victim sues Target, maybe she can hire the ACLU lawyer in Georgia who resigned over this very issue. And hire her to do the job fixing the messes defended by her previous employer!
weird. they caught a nd charged him without relying on any new rightwing bathroom laws.
imagine that
what rightwing bathroom law are you referring to?
1. Does this mean the NC laws requiring people to use the restroom that corresponds to the gender on their legal birth certificate?
2. And on the other hand, how many Transgender people were able to use the restroom of their choice simply by local agreement with other members of their community? Why does this have to be a federal issue?
If we are going to treat it similar to a disability, and this has to be established by medical professionals so it isn't abused, then why can't people get their gender changed legally so it DOES match their records and quit this nonsense?
I'm sorry, but you lost me. Before transgender bullshit, people used the restroom of the gender on their birth certificate. So I'm still puzzled by what rightwing law changed that?
Dear
jc456 Thanks for clarifying you are sincere in asking and not sarcastic as some people took it as.
Before the issue came up, there were no hard rules enforced by govt either way. People naturally used the restroom that corresponded to their natural gender, and the Transgender people were already choosing what restroom to use they could pass as, so there was generally no issue.
With bullying incidents, and "people feeling discriminated against for having to use the faculty restroom if students didn't accept them", then the LGBT lobbies pushed for govt regulations that threatened punishment if Transgender people were prevented from using the bathroom of their choice. So this is what started it. (In Houston, the ordinance went so far as to punish free speech, where merely questioning someone in the bathroom who turned out to be Transgender could invoke a harassment charge and fine up to $5,000. So this was protested as creating special rights, and voted down after a court fight against the City officials who unlawfully blocked the petitions to put it to a vote, later restored by court order, which ultimately defeated the ordinance that did not fairly represent the public.)
In an attempt to correct or prevent this "overcorrection,"
NC went so far as to implement INTO GOVT the rule that people using restroom had to follow the gender on their birth certificates.
So that was new. Before this was a private matter and choice, left to the people. But since the LGBT tried to force it into govt, then the people for traditional ways felt they had to force it into govt to protect their beliefs.
Both sides are beliefs, but this was started by the LGBT first crossing the line and pushing beliefs into govt where that didn't belong.
So that is what is new. Before, it was private and Transgender people already had the freedom to choose their own restrooms. When they tried to make it mandatory that's when it got all screwed up.
It needs to go back to individuals and local sites making decisions among themselves, and/or installing "neutral" or single-stalled restrooms where nobody is forced to change their beliefs for other people, much less for govt.
