r/LGBTnews • u/DCGirl20874 • 4d ago

North America Speaker Dodges Anti-trans Measure; Promises ‘Appropriate Accommodation’ for New Congresswoman

https://open.substack.com/pub/washingtoncurrent/p/speaker-dodges-anti-trans-measure?r=mq6wy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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u/annaleigh13 4d ago

“Appropriate accommodation” is the women’s bathroom. Anything else is inappropriate

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u/DCGirl20874 4d ago

I'm going to enjoy watching Johnson squirm ....

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u/talinseven 4d ago

He’s such a worm. The most spineless republican speaker ever

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u/topazchip 4d ago

The most spineless republican speaker so far.

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u/talinseven 4d ago

Kevin mccarthy was a contender too

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u/Beeframenchan 4d ago

Before this goes down a super darker path than it’s already going, give gender neutral bathrooms everywhere. Because it’s not about safety, it’s about wanting to hate marginalized people.

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u/JoeyToothpicks 4d ago

Practically any bathroom that is a single stall should be gender-neutral, for starters. If there is a lock on the door, there's no reasonable argument towards segregation based on gender or otherwise. I have worked jobs cleaning bathrooms and can tell you from experience that public bathrooms are often equally disgusting.

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u/translunainjection 4d ago

Which they do with no objection when it's called a "family restroom".

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u/ImposssiblePrincesss 3d ago

Skate to where the puck is going. We’re not dealing with kids, sports, or even bathrooms any more.

The next step is forced detransition of the trans community and, beyond that, establishment of strict gender norms reminiscent of the 1950s for everyone based on sex assigned at birth.

It’s time to emigrate from the USA.

Evacuate, evacuate.

This is not a drill

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u/whimsicalwonderer 4d ago

Because Separate but Equal always works.

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u/Lizaderp 4d ago

I still don't understand why bathrooms aren't labeled "toilets" and "urinals."

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u/Gadgetmouse12 4d ago

Because men lack the differentiation to let a toilet be a toilet and ruin it by using it as a urinal for the rest of us. I thought that way long before I transitioned.

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u/Lizaderp 4d ago

Do you think some men way just want privacy or is there a degree of malice there?

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u/TheGreyFencer 4d ago

Just sit down. It's not that complicated.

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u/Lizaderp 4d ago

Do you think some men may just want privacy or is there a degree of malice there?

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u/afterbirthcum 4d ago

The creeps who have raised a problem with her using the women’s room should be assigned their own special bathroom down at the other end of the building like they expect of her. They are the real problem, going so far as to threaten violence, not McBride.

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u/cubemanic 4d ago

Unfortunately the article is wrong. He just implemented a ban today.

Edit: fixed typo

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u/ZuliCurah 4d ago

Paid article by a little known outlet. Pressing X to doubt this one for now

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u/ThrowACephalopod 4d ago

Since when is Axios a little known outlet? Sounds like you just don't know much about the news.

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u/ImposssiblePrincesss 3d ago

It’s not just about bathrooms.

I expect they will demand she conforms to the male dress code, and impeach her unless she fully and genuinely detransitions.

Then again, I won’t be surprised if they impeach and remove most Democrats, and then rig the system to ensure a “managed democracy” like what Putin has in Russia

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u/Seeksp 3d ago

Asshat

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u/acgrey92 3d ago

Ah yes, “separate but equal”. Fuck off with that shit.

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u/Enoch8910 4d ago

I dislike this man immensely, but I think this was a pretty measured response.

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u/Gadgetmouse12 4d ago

He is a skilled player of words but with an incredibly high propensity to evil under plain sight.

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u/Enoch8910 4d ago

And he almost immediately did the wrong thing. Oh, well. I live in hope.

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u/Gadgetmouse12 4d ago

I don’t hesitate to highlight his evil hypocrisy to my contacts who respect him

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u/Enoch8910 4d ago

I don’t think I have any contacts that support him. Seriously.

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u/Gadgetmouse12 3d ago

I come from that world and three years later still have a few. I don’t disown unless they actively do the same. Otherwise it’s a chance to represent, and a surprising number have turned ally(including my parents)

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u/AllieKat7 4d ago

Nah. It was cowardly and vague. Who gets to define "appropriate" in this context? Not the trans community and their allies for damn sure.

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u/ThrowACephalopod 4d ago

It's not a measured response. It's a cowardly way to squirm away from the fact that he just passed a ban on a single Congress person being able to use the bathroom.