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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by woofyman on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:02AM (#12977968)
It was conservatives who made a big deal over bathrooms by passing laws.
Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by ubertaco on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:52AM (#12978489)
Try to step out of your own perspective and look at it from the other side.

I'm not asking you to agree with the other side, just to give it a fair shake before putting it down.

Consider the viewpoint of a parent of a young (10-year-old) child. That parent sends their 10-year-old daughter into the women's restroom. If that restroom can be legally entered by any person who is willing to say out loud "I feel like I am a woman", that restroom is open to any number of adult men who prey on children to enter.

Yes, this is the ever-present, sometimes-alarmist "who will think of the children" argument.

But being a tired argument doesn't make it an inaccurate or illegitimate one. If there is no answer given for it, then it remains valid, if eventually tiring to hear.

Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by TheCoelacanth on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:44AM (#12978978)
> that restroom can be legally entered by any person who is willing to say out loud "I feel like I am a woman"

That's a conservative talking point, not the reality of the situation. In reality, a trans person will have to go far beyond just feeling like a woman to get away with entering a women's room; they will also have to take substantial steps towards looking like a woman.

Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by jimmywanger on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:53AM (#12979071)
Actually, you don't.

You don't even have to feel like a woman to enter a woman's room, you just have to say you identify as a woman.

"Substantial steps towards looking like a woman." What does a woman look like? A woman looks like whatever she chooses to look like. Actually, she sort of looks like me after Taco Tuesdays where I have to use the restroom really badly and all the stalls in the men's bathroom are full.

If you are demanding that a "real woman" make herself subservient to what society thinks a real woman should look like, or maybe even get a note from a doctor diagnosing gender dysmorphia, I would advise you to check your cis privilege. /s

Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by TheCoelacanth on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:26PM (#12979419)
Go to a state that doesn't have a bathroom bill and walk into the women's room claiming that you feel like a woman and let me know how that works out for you.
Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by jimmywanger on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:39PM (#12979545)
Sure. Do that in any company bathroom and nobody will say anything.