"Transgender Tennesseans are real. The businesses and establishments that wish to welcome them are real," District Judge Aleta A. Trauger wrote.
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Here is another example of how the GOP really does not give a shit about anyone's liberty.
The government of Tennessee, which is currently "whatever lately crawled out of Donald Trump's Asshole," passed a law that would have forced businesses to post "warnings" if they had a policy allowing transgender people to use their bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity. This law would have imposed a demand on PRIVATE BUSINESSES, and it would have penalized them for just behaving respectfully toward some of their patrons.
The law was a reaction to a large, widespread fad, among hospitality services, of posting signs on their doors that designate their bathrooms as "all gender." It is becoming very common, especially at small family-owned restaurants and bars where the bathrooms are primarily single-occupancy. If you go into most major cities, you find this trend represented at the majority of trendy hangouts in the area.
Well, Tennessee's government was trying to interfere in how those people do business by forcing them to post "warnings," even though it is hard to NOT know that transgender people are there if the doors already have signs saying "all-gender restroom."
It's pure intimidation.
More intimidation:
Ken Paxton issued an opinion Tuesday after a request from Texas Rep. Briscoe Cain.
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The Texas GOP is now also trying to force teachers to expose their students to potential domestic violence.
As a transgender woman that grew up in the 1980's and 1990's (I have the wrinkles to prove it), I remember my school being a relatively safe environment, compared with the so-called home that I lived in. That is "safer" in the sense of "the only violence I had to worry about was that occasionally I tripped on some jerk's shoe-laces completely by accident, and he would either split my lip or slam my head against a cinder block wall hard enough to leave my ears ringing because transphobes only need a very dubious pretext to express their feelings through violence." That was my idea of a "safe place" when I was a kid.
You know what my environment at home was like? There were times that I literally had to physically defend myself from my own parents during their drunken rages, and the only saving grace was that they were so unbelievably drunk that they backed off after getting kicked violently in the head. If I had been outed as queer or transgender to those maniacs, I could have been in serious danger. They were not just evangelical Christians, but one of them had a family history of a type of alcoholism that was associated with violence. The other one had a brain tumor that had wrapped itself around part of his frontal lobe. If those lunatics had formed the perception that I was some kind of a monster or something, which is what they would have thought if they had gotten wind that I was transgender, then they might have literally killed me.
The same maniacs also declared me to be "demon-possessed" and reacted with extreme violence when they found out that I was uncertain about the authenticity of certain Old Testament stories and said that it might be more useful to interpret them allegorically.
So I am calling on the fucking so-called "libertarians" (bullshit) to tell me how much they need the GOP to defend their "freedom" to talk shit about transgender people, and I am going to watch them smile and nod like bobble-head clowns when the GOP are suppressing the freedom of speech of people that support transgender people. The only "freedom" some of the cretins that currently call themselves "libertarian" really care about is their freedom to make some people's lives so unbearable that they kill themselves. Watch how silent those cretins are when it's the friends and families of transgender people that are being silenced. Haven't you noticed how none of those cretins are here? None of those people that were so hot about their "freedom of speech" are speaking up, here, about the freedom of speech of people that do NOT hate transgender people.
THEY HAVE BEEN LYING TO YOU ABOUT THEIR PRINCIPLES. THEY DO NOT REALLY GIVE A SHIT ABOUT LIBERTY, AFTER ALL. THEY ARE JUST JERKS.