Apparently not convinced from their many defeats in the many levels of court, Texas lawmakers have vowed to pull a North Carolina come their next session in January, further demonstrating my belief that authoritarians must receive vaccines to immunize them against irony:
GOP state Rep. Matt Shaheen told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, for a story published Sunday, that he plans to introduce a bill that would prohibit cities, counties and school districts from allowing transgender people to use restrooms based on their gender identity.
“We’re taking that ability away,” Shaheen said. “We should leave that power where it should reside, at the state and federal level. I think this is such a silly topic. At the end of the day, this is about common sense and decency.”
No it’s fucking not, Shaheen. Common sense and decency would be actually doing something useful with your time, and instead you are perpetuating a violent lobby that makes it impossible to exist while trans. It’s a cultural genocide. To say it is “indecent” would be putting it lightly.
Shaheen is joined by another witless cocksplat, Bill Zedler
GOP Rep. Bill Zedler, who once tried to ban LGBT resource centers on state university campuses, told the Star-Telegramthat the issue of trans restroom use “raises concerns mainly because anytime you want to make it where someone who self-identifies as a man … can now go into the woman’s restroom, I believe it puts small children at risk as well as … inconveniencing 99, 98 percent of the population so a very small percent of the population can supposedly feel comfortable.”
They’re not even fucking trying to understand at this point.
Jesus fucking christ. I inconvenience you by existing? Fuck off, you predatory sacks of shit.
-Shiv
They are taking their cue from NC Governor McWhiney: it’s all about the safety of women and children. Hopefully, the courts will see through that bullshit and call it for what it is: discrimination against a group of people that they do not like. The NC voter ID law was struck down, as was the one in Texas. A similar outcome is warranted in the case of NC’s HB2 and whatever similar law that Texas passes.
We have to protect the children! *
* Not from anything real, like guns, poverty, disease, lack of education, or actual real world issues. Imaginary threats that only require lots of grandstanding are all that count.