Glory be! Comes yet another chapter in the GOP’s endless obsession with genitals. And teh sex. And all the other stuff that they shall not name, because the words are dirty, dirty, dirty.
After the City of Phoenix AZ passed comprehensive nondiscrimination protections, a state congress critter saw the threats hidden in its dangerous language and stepped up to protect the citizenry from its government.
. . . Rep. John Kavanagh (R) is not pleased that transgender people will be protected when using the correct bathroom, and so he has introduced a new bill to ban them from doing just that.
Kavanagh’s [new amendment] prohibits a person from entering a “public restroom, bathroom, shower, bath, dressing room, or locker room” if the sex designation of that facility does not match the individual’s birth certificate. He defended his “show your papers to pee” bill in an interview with 12 News Phoenix:
KAVANAGH: The city of Phoenix has crafted a bill that . . . raises the specter of people who want to go into those opposite sex facilities not because they’re transgender, but because they’re weird.
Always worrying about teh sex stuff.
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.
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Holy Whacko’s Batman, what is in your water up there? 😉
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Maybe and, then again, maybe not. It could be all about the trannies but it could, instead, be about problems with young men “raiding” women’s locker rooms and such, which is currently not a crime of any sort. Or it could just be politics, like trying to add a DADT repeal to an appropriations budget bill or adding F-22 funding to the same in response.
This isn’t a standalone bill. It’s a rider to a bill to remove the position of the government official in charge of monitoring and regulating … wait for it … massage parlors.
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jonolan, the amendment is probably never going to make it through – even in AZ it’s a bit much to get involved in who enters which bathroom.. . just another example of this Republican obsession with sex. And if it encouraged ‘raiding’, that would, like the raiding that happens today, be a bad behavior issue that mostly gets dealt with on the spot. Not criminal for Elvis’ sake!
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How would this be enforced? Would you have to carry a photo of your parts at birth?
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I’m glad to see you back. I was surprised at all the posts. Ithought it might be at least weeks before we saw you again.
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Thanks bruce – we all need to step away for a while sometimes, yes?
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