Transidiot
Nobody can be born this dumb. I am certain that it just had to require an operation.
Texas State Representative Debbie Riddle, a woman frighteningly over-concerned with your genitals, filed a bill in the Texas House that says …
… anyone over the age of 13 in a public facility of “a gender that is not the same gender as the individual’s gender” should be convicted of a class-A misdemeanor, and spend up to one year in jail and be fined $4,000. Riddle’s proposed law carves out exemptions for custodians, those helping children, or those responding to a medical emergency.
Her goal is to keep transgendered people from peeing. Anywhere, anytime.
Debbie Riddle: Can You Guess the Gender?
And since it would be easier to teach a mermaid to do the splits than to identity a transgender person with their clothes on, I suspect some sort of nudity check would be involved at the bathroom door. I can guarantee you this: I am not showing Debbie Riddle my nudity.
Debbie wants to use your DNA to confirm your gender. I do not know if this would require a DNA testing center outside of every bathroom or if you can just get a DNA ID card for bathroom privileges.
I suspect that Debbie hasn’t thought this out either.
That’s Debbie over there in a helmet. She had her picture taken when she went to South Texas to hunt for terror babies. I have no idea what she plans to wear to hunt transgendered people.
As one ages, the need to pee can seem a medical emergency.
1I feel a paraphrase coming on. (No not two, just one.)
With apologies to the great Winston Churchill, who but for the accident of his birth, might have been President of the United States…
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Riddle. For she is a Riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Riddle’s personal interest.”
2“a gender that is not the same gender as the individual’s gender”
One’s gender is always the same as one’s gender. A = A
3I guess that will stop women from using men’s restrooms at concerts and arenas, when the women’s line is 50 deep and the men’s restroom is empty! That women is such a twit.
4Just think of all the new jobs that could be created by this bill, as the State hired chromosome checkers to stand guard outside every public restroom in the state!
5As usual … a repub “lady” has opened mouth while her erstwhile male mentor has inserted its foot.
I am [especially after events such as this] truly grateful for Democratic WOMEN.
6babies are sometimes born with “ambiguous genitalia,” with external parts that can not be clearly identified as either male or female. More rarely, they may be hermaphrodites with reproductive parts of both sexes. There are many causes for such developmental anomalies. I wonder whether she plans to do chromosomal analyses in public restrooms. That takes quite a while, which for someone who really needs to pee would be burdensome.
7Micr, there’s another Churchill quote suitable to Debbie: “Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea!’ And if you were my wife, I would drink it.”
What’s with the Tea Baggers and their fixations?
8Is that helmet to keep her remaining fragment of brain in her skull? Seems a bit late for that. What’s left could dribble out her ears anyway.
I’m reminded of a scene– can’t remember now if it was in a book or real life– of a woman in soldier’s garb who used the ladies’ room at a park holding a Civil War battle re-enactment. One of the honchos saw her and told her to take off the uniform and put on a period dress, because he wouldn’t let her play soldier ’cause she was a girl. She informed him that there were quite a few women who were soldiers during the war, on both sides. And if he was going for authenticity, the only way a rebel soldier would have been as fat as he was by 1864 was to be dead and bloating.
9Is this a sign Louie is going somewhere? There are a lot of people who seem ready to take his place. Or maybe, noticing the free press Louie gets, they may be striving for some publicity?
10I don’t really understand the obsession with this issue of particularly men going into women’s bathrooms.
Apparently a law banning this is the only thing that is stopping Republican men from wearing a dress and going into the ladies’ room to … what? listen to the sound of women peeing in the next stall? Is that what gets these freaks off?
Or perhaps they are concerned that women will suddenly want to go into the mens’ room to somehow get a peek at their teeny shriveled GOP manhood?
I really don’t see how this is any sort of problem unless you are some sort of sick individual with sick sexual desires.
11@PKM
Full disclosure: I am an abiding Winston fan.
Conservative to Liberal. Liberal to Conservative, again.
“Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat.”
That said I love the Lady Astor v Churchill exchanges.
“Sir you are Drunk.”
“Madam, you are ugly. In the morning I will be sober.”
@Rhea
12At the risk of irritating JJ’s sainted momma, when I first saw that picture my thought was “Who tatooed Darth Vader wearing ugly sunglasses on their penis??”
You know what I don’t like – women who bring in their sons to the restroom that are under 13 and who thinking screaming, running and peeking under the restroom door is acceptable. Of course Mz Riddle is just thinking boys in the girls room. I can’t wait for all the dad’s who have daughters to start teaching how peeing is “really done” in the open atmosphere of a mens room.
13She’s been sniffing ether!
14Katy is right, this woman is a certifiable job creator! At any she is certifiable! Could she be any more incoherent?
15My first thought about DNA testing is sheesh, it already takes months or years to get to, say, rape kits (except on TV, of course).
Will she insist on priority processing?
16Laughing and about to roll off chair. I really think she should get her own cartoon character. You think Doonesbury needs a new one?
17Interesting aside. On her Wikipedia site I learned that Riddle beat Noun in the last election. I love words.
18And why does she keep getting elected? Really.
If only these nuts would spend as much time on actual legislating as they do obsessing about what’s going on in other people’s underwear…sigh.
19I didn’t know public facilities had genders…it gets more and more complicated. Where the hell is George Carlin when you need him?
20Where ever he is watching from, don’t you know he is enjoying all this?
21DNA testing takes about 48 hours at minimum. Who can wait two days to use the bathroom?
22I is having trouble identifying the species of a Debbie Riddle. Don’t look or act human.
23Carry a sign that says wet paint and when the urge arrives do so. You are within your legal rights to wet paint if the sign says so.
24As the mom of a transgender son who is very actively involved in educating “morans” like her, a trans person generally would die of embarrassment before letting anyone peek at their genitals in a bathroom. More to the point, who is the villain here, the poor guy/gal in the bathroom stall or the creep who is peeking over the top or under the stall to get a look?
25Apparently Ms. Riddle thinks there is entirely too much cross-visiting of public bathrooms. From whence comes her data?
26My guess is she spends entirely too much time hanging out in said bathrooms carrying out “inspections”. Perhaps her time might be better spent hanging out in the State Legislature where her “potty peculiarities” might find more weighty issues to ponder.
1) Gender testing is not as demanding as DNA testing.
2) The test should obviously be a urinanalysis (so people get relief while testing)
and 3) Don’t you long for the olden days where there had to be a noticeable problem for legislators to seek a law to solve it–like limiting parking one’s horse to close to the front door of an establishment, or no pouring chamber pot contents out the window over a public sidewalk…
As has been said by many before me–these people need to stop inventing laws that only play to their own obsessions of sexual deviant behavior and trying to “protect” the public against it.
And quite frankly, if this law is to stop from having perverts in the wrong bathroom…a law won’t stop that. And there probably are plenty of other laws in place that could apply instead already.
27Please tell me how this idiot go elected?
28Why don’t we guys help Debbie with her sexual dilemna? We can send samples of DNA in jars, ziploc bags, envelopes…. The possibilities are endless.
*no sperm were harmed if the drafting of this message
29Perhaps instead of a gender test allowing people to use a restroom we should institute an IQ test. I would then hope for Riddle’s sake that there are plenty of trees nearby.
30What does she want? As my grandpa would say…a field check first? Maybe hire TSA to do a pat down before we can “go”. I got news for her, someone touches my junk, not only am I not tipping them a dollar, but they liable to end up with wet feet 🙂
31The only kind of person who would introduce a bill like this is someone who spends too much time in public rest rooms looking at everybody else’s.
32Kallie,, either you don’t live in Texas or you are a short term resident. We routinely elect idiots, many of whom are greater embarrassments than Riddle. It would be impossible to list all of the Texas idiots currently in office, or to name the biggest idiot. If we could agree upon who is currently the biggest elected idiot, within days some other elected idiot would feel obliged to snatch the title. It is like being recognized in the
33Guinness Book of Records for consuming the most hotdogs, tomorrow some other glutton will consume one more wiener.
Uncle Dave… I though the reason was that it was a low cost way of keeping the village idiot occupied, and off the local charity rolls.
34How this person ( and others like her got elected ) ? That is a good question for which I have only one answer. She got elected because the people who vote in her district wanted one of their own to serve as the representative for their ignorance, stupidity, bigotry, and religiosity. She is serving them well as are many other elected representatives all over this nation. This is a dark age in which we are living where modern science, ideology, social mores, and culture are being rejected by many people. I recall the old fellow on his front porch in Appalachia when President Johnson visited there to promote the Great Society. The old man leaned back in his chair, stuck his thumbs in his gallus straps, shifted his cud of “baccy” to his other cheek, and intoned: “I have a right to be poor and ignorant if I want to be !”
35Most of these elected idiots are not poor, but they have carried ignorance to new heights and depths and they are glorying in it.