Totally Expected
You can hardly blame North Carolina for being so concerned about bathrooms. After all, they are full of crap.
North Carolina on Monday filed a lawsuit against the federal government in response to a letter from the Justice Department that gave the state until the end of the day to scrap a controversial law regarding access to public bathrooms or risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.
To his semi-credit, Governor Pat McCrory explains that he understands how the federal government can say that you can’t have black and white bathrooms, but the toilet stops at transgendered people. Why?
“We can definitely define the race of people. It’s very hard to define transgender or gender identity,” McCrory said.
Yes, indeed, Governor, you can see if someone is black or white, but you cannot see winkies or home plate. Obviously, this is way too complicated for your average Republican Governor who is drooling for an excuse to see genitals. Or maybe just drooling. I dunno.
Don’t Republicans have enough people to hate without adding people who need to pee?
Nope. In answer to your last question.
1They exist to hate,otherwise they have Nothing.
Dear Governor,
If it helps you, think of transgender people as being analogous to mixed-race people. You don’t have to like that they do exist, and you DON’T like that they exist, because you prefer to see things as simplistically as possible. Black and white, not mocha.
Nevertheless, they DO exist, and… I know this is icky, but bear with me… sometimes they have to pee.
Love,
Everyone else
2LOL … “… but you cannot see winkies or home plate” … trouble is, some of the LGBTQ folks have had their winkies and home plates aka vajayjays reassigned … what then? My God, Governor Perv, might look but wouldn’t know the difference regardless of what he was looking at!! Picture head exploding … LOL
3Most states need new legislation. Fast. Legislation to protect us from the frivolous lawsuits of wingnut governors and legislatures. If they insist on doing something really st00pid, let them pay the legal costs.
We’ve managed to survive quite nicely until 2016 without this ‘issue’ and need for a brigade of genital gropers. NC residents send your Gov and state lege anatomically correct blow up dolls. Maybe that will satisfy their groping fascination(s), while the rest of us pee in peace.
To my friends in the LGBTQA community, please excuse these idiots for their sickness. Your hopes are my hopes. I hope that little children today and little children yet to be born do not suffer the unnecessary indignities that you have endured. Equality for ALL as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment is the way everyone deserves to live.
4As someone who has to pee quite frequently, I will avoid any city, state or country which seeks to regulate where or when I might accomplish this. I am a woman with short hair who wears slacks, so perhaps I might not make the cut for the ladies room in North Carolina, but I will fight to the death the right to an empty bladder or colon where ever I choose, as long as it’s sanitary.
5Our founding fathers covered this in the “pursuit of happiness” section of the Constitution. Republican men are the only threat to people in public restrooms (see tap dancing in stalls) and should be barred without an armed escort.
So- if we now have to take picture ID and other proof that we are who we are in order to vote, do we now need to take our birth certificates, medical records (including trans-surgery info) and copies of hormone replacement prescriptions when we go to the bathroom?
6I go along with some pretty stoopid stuff in order to get along here in nacilbupeRistan, BUT I will pi$$ on the men’s room door before I subject myself to an inspection to satisfy a nacilbupeR functionary as to my present urinary package.
7Republicans are turning their states into open sewers anyway, so pee wherever!
8While I would say that most of the time you can tell who is what racially, not always can you do this. What is next, a DNA chart of how much we are of what color?
9It’s blatantly obvious. All these red flags that they wave to distract us from the real problems in this country are like the Wizard of Oz saying, “Ignore that man behind the curtain!” as they take over everything in our economy from water, fuel, and energy to paychecks to satisfy the corporate greed for more money and more power.
What we need is less money for education. That’ll fix everything.
10And food…let’s not forget that. I guess the list could go on and on.
11Remember: safe food, clean water, a roof and walls, a place to pee, and health care are NOT rights, but guns are. Got it?
12Trans women have been peeing in public women’s restrooms for years without all this hoorah…including in church restrooms, school restrooms, courthouse restrooms, and so on and so on…this is a made-up issue to distract taxpayers from noticing where the money is going (to GOP and friends) and where their other freedoms are going (away.)
13Right on sister,Maryelle. With the sorry state of many public restrooms the sobs oughta be paying people to use the damn things.
14and since wingnuts are so big on personal responsibility,bathrooms and rivers have to clean themselves up.
15If it is very hard to define transgender or gender identity then shouldn’t we let people do that for themselves? I mean, they’re the experts.
16I read once that when the late actor Lionel Barrymore was quite elderly he was shaving one morning, and after he rinsed his face he did a double-take at the mirror and exclaimed, “My God–Ethel!”
The American public has been sorting out which rest room to use ever since their were public restrooms. But the latter-day GOP suddenly has trouble figuring it out. I agree with Elizabeth Moon.
17Meant to type “since there were” not “since their were.”
18Remind me. How many BILLIONS of dollars has NC lost due to businesses of all kinds bailing out over a bathroom bill?
19While I have long admired A. Lincoln as one of the truly great leaders in world history . . . . well, it may be time for a do over on the whole Civil War deal. Or, at least an honest assessment of what the pros and cons are to split this country into the sane and optimistic and the insane and pessimistic who intend on dragging the country toward defeat, hate, and foolishness. I truly think land swaps and goodbyes could be accomplished in less than three years. We in the north want the LGBTQ folks because, lets be honest, they are mostly a hell of a lot more fun than the dried up old goats that inhabit much of Old Dixie.
20maggie, add to the lost business revenue $millions in lost federal tax dollars, while should they decide to defend their ridiculous law add a big fat bill for legal expenses.
People should be really tired of paying for their buffoonery. Bad cops costing $millions in settlements, snacilbupeR Govs wasting $millions to save dimes, and legislatures doing whatever st00pid that ALEC lays on them. Someday people will wise up and give the snacilbupeR the boot in the interest of actual fiscal conservatism.
21If I see a man standing around the women’s restroom checking people out, I’m calling the cops/security and telling them there’s a pervert hanging around and creeping me out.
22I agree glf, same here.
In the meantime, I predict ALEC will direct their snacilbupeR minions to write laws requiring picture IDs for our genitals!
23Seeing the pattern here ya’ll, while getting everyone Riled up about genitals, NC has just filed suit against the Civil Rights act of 1964…..Oh ALEC, what have we done to deserve thee….?
24@Debbo
Oh thanks for the lead in on that one! Every juvenile penis size comparison joke from 1967 to now can be recycled in the context of an “image”. Thankyew!!
25Uh, the Justice Dept counter-sued North Carolina and has asked for an immediate and permanent injunction against implementing the bathroom law on constitutional grounds.
Funny-N Carolina doesn’t have a leg to stand on so they will have to squat to pee. Let’s check their genitals and if they are found lacking, they can pee their pants.
26Forcing guys to get photo i.d.s of their genitals is a pole-tax and illegal.
Mama-how far can we go discussing options for the ladies to get photos of theirs, since theirs aren’t visually visual at first glance-so to speak?
27Maybe they should rename it North SouthCarolina.
epo: LMAO @ “pole-tax” I am stealing the HELL out of that one!
28linda: forget the efficacy of prescriptions, the only meds that the GOP understands are aspirin for between girls’ knees as birth control, and possibly meth for their stalwart good ol boys.
29Steal away,da Chipster, but please credit Debbo. Without her inspiration, THAT pole-tax would not exist. 🙂
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