Why didn't we pass a bathroom law when, ya' know, a man born with a penis went into to the men's bathroom and solicited sex? I'll tell ya' why.......because it's not about a bathroom, it's about bigotry. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3546350&page=1
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/1...ected-from-mcdonalds-for-using-womens-toilet/ Even real girls, who identify as girls, can't use the girl's bathroom sometimes.
Scores of corporations have balked at the law, several performers have canceled shows in the state because of it and the NBA is weighing whether to pull the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte over it. NBC estimates that the law has cost North Carolina $39.7 million directly and led to $186 million in lost revenue. Read more at http://www.wral.com/mccrory-i-m-not-private-sector-s-hr-director-/15646967/#4m4qyaF55XQS90Yd.99 In my opinion the costs are going to go much higher, even more when these idiots try to defend this unconstitutional law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lgbt-state-bills-discrimination_us_570ff4f2e4b0060ccda2a7a9 There are more than 100 active bills like this right now, across 22 states. They fall into a handful of categories — some are bathroom bills, some let judges refuse to marry same-sex couples, some let businesses deny services to LGBT people — but they all have the same goal: legalizing discrimination against queer people. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features...restricting-bathrooms-for-transgender-people/ Other bills got a lot more specific. Thirteen specified that chromosomes should be taken into account to define sex, but only Indiana’s House Bill 1079 was detailed enough to say that a female was defined as someone with “at least one X chromosome and no Y chromosome” and that males included everyone with “at least one X chromosome and at least one Y chromosome.” Washington’s Senate Bill 6548 and House Bill 2589 both allowed some transgender people to use the bathroom that matched their gender identity, provided that they’d had genital surgery and did not have “genitalia of a different gender from that for which the facility is segregated.” All three of those bills are now inactive. Seems like this issue is only getting bigger, and more complex.
Duran Duran in Charlotte: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/0...ina-to-combat-hate-and-its-magnificent-video/
Is there anyone who really thinks this still only about bathroom access. Instead of the new "First in Freedom" license plates, the DOT should offer "First in Discrimination." *sigh*
More complex is an understatement since the laws do not have the variation capacity biology does. A woman with CAIS can have no outward male appearance but still have a Y chromosome. Also there are genes on other chromosomes which affect the sexual identity. https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/androgen-insensitivity-syndrome Androgen insensitivity syndrome is a condition that affects sexual development before birth and during puberty. People with this condition are genetically male, with one X chromosome and one Y chromosome in each cell. Because their bodies are unable to respond to certain male sex hormones (called androgens), they may have mostly female sex characteristics or signs of both male and female sexual development. Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome occurs when the body cannot use androgens at all. People with this form of the condition have the external sex characteristics of females, but do not have a uterus and therefore do not menstruate and are unable to conceive a child (infertile). They are typically raised as females and have a female gender identity. Affected individuals havemale internal sex organs (testes) that are undescended, which means they are abnormally located in the pelvis or abdomen. Undescended testes can become cancerous later in life if they are not surgically removed. People with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome also have sparse or absent hair in the pubic area and under the arms.
Tennessee has finally realized it does not want to be as primitive as North Carolina Lawmaker kills Tennessee's transgender bathroom bill
http://fox17online.com/2016/04/19/court-overturns-virginia-schools-transgender-bathroom-rule/ RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a policy barring a transgender student from using the boys’ restrooms at his Virginia high school. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Gloucester County School Board policy is discriminatory. A federal judge had rejected Gloucester High School student Gavin Grimm’s sex discrimination claim. The appeals court’s ruling establishes legal precedent in the five states in the 4th Circuit, including North Carolina, which faces a lawsuit challenging a new state law requiring transgender public school students to use the bathroom that corresponds to the sex on their birth certificate. Grimm was born female but identifies as male. After complaints, the school board adopted a policy requiring students to use public restrooms corresponding with their biological gender.
Merle Haggard songs are better than this thread. Libs can't quite find the political pit so maybe this will run them off.
