Sunday, January 15, 2012

Somebody IS a threat to people using the bathroom, and it's apparently Rep. Richard Floyd

The Tennessee congressman who is sponsoring the anti-trans "bathroom harassment bill" says he would "stomp a mudhole" in a trans woman who tried to use a female changeroom near him

FLOYD: I believe if I was standing at a dressing room and my wife or one of my daughters was in the dressing room and a man tried to go in there — I don’t care if he thinks he’s a woman and tries on clothes with them in there — I’d just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry.

Don’t ask me to adjust to their perverted way of thinking and put my family at risk. We cannot continue to let these people dominate how society acts and reacts. Now if somebody thinks he’s a woman and he’s a man and wants to try on women’s clothes, let him take them into the men’s bathroom or dressing room.

Um... who needs protecting from whom? I think we need a "bathroom protection from homicidal congressmen act" >_>

After all, so far I have not heard any trans women threatening to assault cis women in washrooms, however I have just heard a cis congressman threaten to physically assault trans women who are trying to try on clothes or go to the washroom. Sounds like there's evidence my bill is needed, and none for his. xD

Also... if it's okay to assault people we believe are a threat to our safety then, every trans person can assault HIM pre-emptively right?

There IS a side here who is a threat to the safety of others... and it ain't trans people. >:\

5 comments:

  1. Well, clearly he feels threatened by something. Maybe we remind him of something in his closet?

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  2. I was going to say something along the lines of what Taryn said. That level of vehemence equals some kind of massive repression of some feeling the speaker isn't allowing himself to recognize.

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  3. Wow. I wonder if that could be used to prove premeditation if he ever did assault a transwoman (or non-gender-conforming ciswoman)?

    Damn do we need non-gender-specific bathrooms and changing rooms. For everyone. (That is, as a replacement for the current set up of men/women.)

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  4. Bigots think that people they dislike merely existing in public spaces is harassment to them, because they don't live in reality.

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  5. Bigots think that people they dislike merely existing in public spaces is harassment to them, because they don't live in reality...

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