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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation

The onslaught has led the state official tasked by law with managing the tip line, Utah Auditor John Dougall, to bemoan getting stuck with the cumbersome task of filtering through fake complaints while also facing backlash for enforcing a law he had no role in passing.

“No auditor goes into auditing so they can be the bathroom monitors,” Dougall said Tuesday. “I think there were much better ways for the Legislature to go about addressing their concerns, rather than this ham-handed approach.”

In the week since it launched, the online tip line already has received more than 10,000 submissions, none of which seem legitimate, he said. The form asks people to report public school employees who knowingly allow someone to use a facility designated for the opposite sex.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago

These two links show all of the Republican legislators in Utah if anyone needs to report seeing them using the "wrong" bathroom.

https://senate.utah.gov/senate-roster/

https://house.utleg.gov/house-members/

This would be the form you should fill out. I would definitely report any of those people for using the "wrong" bathroom if you happen to have any information on that.

https://ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_complaint2.html

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

Please use a VPN and no identifiable info when submitting.

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 18 points 1 month ago

I don't think they would trawl through hundreds of thousands of submissions to go after individuals. I also doubt they would extradite me from the UK. So fuck the VPN.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

They sure as hell pass laws to go after just a fraction of their population so...

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 19 points 1 month ago

Good thing i have zero intention of ever going to Utah

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It's a beautiful state, politics aside

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

FWIW I'd just use a random name generator. They could just filter out common/obviously fake submissions of legislators. The goal should be obfuscation, make it hard to tell what is a genuine report and what is a report for someone who doesn't even exist—reports that they can't just toss until they investigate and realize it was just a waste of time.

[-] andyburke@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago

Are you saying legislators are unwilling to investigate their own even if they're violating the law?

Yes, that's how the GOP operates.

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