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Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested at the Florida State Capitol after intentionally entering a women’s restroom in protest of the state’s transgender bathroom law.

Civil rights lawyers say it is the first known arrest under such laws in any U.S. state.

Rheintgen faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge and could face up to 60 days in jail.

Florida is one of only two states to criminalize such acts.

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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Bathroom laws are unenforceable and largely function instead like: "conform as closely as possible to gendered expectations of appearance and presentation or get the shit kicked out of you".

This mostly affects cis women. Having broad shoulders and short hair is all it takes really. The more these laws are promoted, the more cis women who don't conform to social body standards for women will suffer. Wearing a skirt and growing your hair long and wearing makeup every single day could legitimately become a matter of your own safety.

Biological gender essentialism is just gender roles all over again. They've packaged it as a way to force trans people out of society, and it does for anyone who can't go stealth. But far more than it affects trans people, it affects cis people. They know that. That's actually the point in the first place. They want to socially enforce patriarchy. The goal is to force women to submit to men and male scrutiny of their gender.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Wearing a skirt and growing your hair long and wearing makeup every single day could legitimately become a matter of your own safety.

Damn. I hate how spot on this sounds.

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[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 24 points 2 days ago (14 children)

I do NOT want that girl going in a man's bathroom!! If any woman's going to be attacked in a bathroom, it's her... she's young, petite and gorgeous. It's so wrong

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't want people being attacked in bathrooms period. Men's bathrooms are not supposed to be lawless dens of brutal violence, just places to fucking pee, poop and wash hands.

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've seen girls that looked below 10 in men's bathroom. The women's had a massive queue. Literaly no one cared, she went into cubicle, came out, washer her hands and left. No drama.

But I guess I live in civilised world.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Simple, those girls aren't "different"

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

In hopes someone new sees this...

It's never about the children. It's a scape goat.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She is gorgeous, but let's not create a false bar of its ok if you're pretty. We also have a story circulating right now in Florida about a very tall cis woman being harassed for using the women's bathroom and BEING FIRED FROM HER JOB FOR NOT REPORTING IT RIGHT.

We all need a place to take a shit. Pretty or not.

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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 69 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Conservative bitches are jealous that Marcy is hotter than all of them.

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[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 41 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've said this before but I really want to hear some stories of trans men using the womens bathroom in these places. Big muscular men with bald heads and beards, barging in pissing everywhere and leaving toilet seats up.

I want to see the meltdown when people find out they're just following the law. Please trans bros do this for me.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

Fuck Florida. FUCK Florida.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Transfolk are absolutely their next big target after they're finished removing the immigrants.

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