GOP’s Anti-Trans Bathroom Panic | Erin Reed | TMR

[@robynpress9534]

To all the "i didn't hear about all this trans stuff until recently!" folks. You didnt hear about Antarctica until 1820, but it was probably there the whole time.... 🤷‍♀️

[@LucasTgod]

We've always been giving hormone and puberty blockers to children?

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@LucasTgodyes, we’ve done it for decades now.

[@HontasFarmer80]

Good point.

[@SarastistheSerpent]

Erin is doing such important work. Solidarity from a cis ally 🏳️‍⚧️

[@ProudBlackConservative1906]

Really smh

[@laurawright719]

Trans people don't need allies. They need accomplices

[@novuspatriarch]

​@laurawright719 how silly. They aren't criminals for existing.

[@sophiepooks2174]

@@ProudBlackConservative1906 🤪🤡

[@rhymerlegend2717]

He’s crazy and needs to stay out of female only spaces

[@Andy.Smurphy]

Who checks? Do all people need to pull their pants down and show a cop their bits before being allowed to use the bathroom?

[@danaplaczek9664]

No, only those women who don't look "feminine" enough, by MTG's and Mace's obviously subjective standards.

[@TheeDavidDee]

Trans rights are human rights. Fascists can get bent

[@stinkyfingers1617]

Human rights are human rights. You don’t get to just create your own rights for a small subgroup that stomps out anything else.

[@buckiesmalls]

@@stinkyfingers1617 Define "stomping out anything else"?

[@robynpress9534]

​@@stinkyfingers1617let me guess, by "your own rights" you mean "the right to use the bathroom" That's....not a super special privilige. That's literally just a right everyone else has. Real question: why do you types always have to make things up to make it seem like you have a point?

[@highplainsgrifter600]

​@@buckiesmallsthe ability to not have perverts get off by watching women change in locker rooms and wear women's clothes.

[@ribbrascal]

False, they are unjust privileges.

[@lisajetter-qu1md]

Omg! Get over it. Why y’all threatened. None of my business. And it shouldn’t be yours. Go where you’re comfortable. You’re there to “go” and leave. Stop the judging!!

[@MyrnaBarton]

Trans people are some of the most creative people and some of their life stories are so moving that they've made me want to change my life and improve myself. The party that is disingenuous and doesn't want to be convinced has taken power but now is the time to show strength through solidarity. If some in the Democratic party will cower to the right we won't. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[@jessicatymczak5852]

❤ U Erin.

[@YeetTheElite13]

Erin Reed is phenomenal

[@LucasTgod]

I love the nasally man voice trying to sound womanly especially

[@YeetTheElite13]

​@@LucasTgodfascist, bite the curb

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@LucasTgod trans women are women. Why can’t you just accept this fact? Remember not a single medical expert on the planet agrees with you

[@amberanderson528]

@@LucasTgod hi transphobe

[@amberanderson528]

@@LucasTgod hi bigot

[@HunterLee2600]

The statistic that seems to always get left out of the conversation around Mace's usage of her status as an SA victim is just HOW MANY of us trans folks have been victims of SA. If anything, SA survivors should be in FAVOR of trans people's rights to live as best they can.

[@kristinb8268]

I think you meant Nancy Mace's use of SA. And I totally agree because I'm a trans woman who has been SA twice. So why should I be forced into men's bathrooms, or men's anything for that matter. It's also frustrating that SA is used to keep trans women from accessing services to help victims of SA like women's shelters etc. Like it really pisses me off having my lived experience as a woman in the world denied, and are invalid. In my case while I don't think I'm attractive I do pass, and my voice is always read as female over the phone, or when someone can't see me, but only hear my voice. Basically people don't know I'm trans unless I tell them, so of course the world treats me like any other white woman, but to TERF's\gender critical people and bigots like Nancy Mace will actively ignore my lived reality, and reality in general because dehumanizing transgender people, and our lived experiences is the point. Can't allow the public to sympathize or worse empathizes with trans people especially with trans women. Definitely can't allow people to see that trans women deal with sexism, and misogyny too. Like if you look at the group of people most likely to experience intimate partner violence\IPV, and then which group is most likely to be SA it's trans women who have relationships with men, and cisgender bisexual women.

[@LucasTgod]

You're still not allowed to use the ladies restroom. Two wrongs don't make a right

[@HunterLee2600]

@kristinb8268 Yeah I did, good catch. I edited accordingly.

[@kristinb8268]

@@LucasTgod Ohh,well I'll be sure to keep that in mind next time I use the women's room, lol. Besides that it's not a wrong because trans girls and women are not men. They are just another way that girls, and women exist in the world. Human biology is very complicated. Studies show even before transition that the biology of trans people are not the same as their cisgender counterparts. For lack of a better term studies keep providing more and more support for what most have hypothesized for over 100 years that it's an intersex condition of the brain, and in some trans people even more than just the brain is effected.

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@LucasTgodyou are only against it because you were told to be. Think. Just think for yourself and you’ll no longer believe this.

[@Balletcalvero]

I just can't stop thinking about how miserable I'd be to start a new job and a colleague who hasn't even met me yet decides to create a bill specifically due to my presence.

[@mindblown42069]

How long before they are examining cis women before they let them in the bathroom?

[@kushclarkkent6669]

Women can carry guns too.😏

[@scotts1912]

Don't worry, I'm sure Republicans will post a man outside every washroom to examine all the women. But it totally won't be perverted.

[@ribbrascal]

That's not how it works. 99% of trans-narcissist men are detectable on sight

[@robynpress9534]

​@@ribbrascal"wE CaN aLwAyS TeLL" 😂

[@lmd2215]

I really think that's what they're working up to -- a world where some guy in a uniform stands outside bathrooms and has the right to look down anybody's pants. Imagine what a plum that job will be for Trump and the rest to hand out to their most vocal sycophants.

[@richardcorona3564]

Maces response to being a victim? She becomes the abuser. Sickening

[@rhymerlegend2717]

She is the victim and it’s sickening that anyone thinks males should be allowed in female spaces. She has been threatened horribly by the trans cult for speaking up for women. We have had enough and won’t back down to the abuse anymore

[@novuspatriarch]

@@rhymerlegend2717 name a single time a trans person assaulted someone in a bathroom. They are there to be and leave. Your issue is with straight cis men.

[@seanwhelan6960]

@@rhymerlegend2717what abuse, you can’t let people use the bathroom. If we’re going on numbers, no clergy should be allowed in the bathroom. Obviously you don’t care what bathrooms a trans man uses. Basically you people cannot treat others how YOU want to be treated. It’s like one of the 1st things parents should teach their children. Obviously maga parents are too busy on social media being aggrieved about everything to actually parent. Where are all these bathroom assaults? You’ve been bamboozled into worrying about a non-issue, so you don’t worry about anything actually relevant. Treat all people how you would like them to treat you, and stop worrying about everyone’s genitals.

[@smears6039]

@@rhymerlegend2717so what do you propose? Forcing trans women into men’s restrooms?? Forcing trans men into women’s restrooms?? You don’t think a big burly man with a beard would make women more uncomfortable than a feminine woman like the new congresswoman??

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@smears6039they didn’t think at all. They are just repeating what they are told to

[@briggs5534]

anybody else notice just before the election, that the majority of tv adverts did not identify the political party of the person running for any office. unless you knew the person running, you could not be sure what they actually represented.

[@FruityPebbles-420]

I did notice, but I live in Indiana and naturally assume any time a candidate refers to Hoosier values that I need to stay away from that candidate.

[@stevenj9970]

Wow, just when you thought things couldn't get any worse in this country for its citizens, a new low is achieved. My fear is this is only the beginning.

[@rhymerlegend2717]

Nah this is a good thing! Sanity is finally returning and women are being protected

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@rhymerlegend2717no it’s not.

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@rhymerlegend2717the exact opposite is happening. Why are you this gullible? Do you realize how delusional you sound?

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@rhymerlegend2717nope. Remember it’s the exact opposite. Think. Just think for yourself and you’ll realize the left was correct again

[@rhymerlegend2717]

@@DarrenBladeSnider the left is def not right in this issue. Keep men out of women’s spaces!

[@buntyjoy1800]

So trans men need to use the womens bathroom?

[@robertwearing8132]

Trans men don't exist to these people, they're gonna fucking flip when a person who looks like a man is in their woman's bathroom due to these rules.

[@silverdragon4344]

I live in NH and I'm desperate to get out, but even with military disability I just can't afford it.

[@tricksonafixed]

Examples such as this on top of the xenophobia, nationalism, chauvinism, and implicit racism seem to be very great examples of fascist behavior. I do not understand why people don’t understand this or try to pretend as if it’s not the case. It’s one thing to campaign as a fascist and another to govern as a fascist but when the threats are made and the rhetoric follows then why is it unreasonable to assume it’s not going to happen?

[@maddydream]

When Sherrod threw us under the bus, I knew two things: Democrats were gonna lose it all Trans people were officially persona non grata to both sides of the aiale

[@jasonmiller6800]

We’re ALL gonna end up in the same bathroom together 😂

[@albedougnut]

To every cis ally, I greatly appreciate you. Too many cowards have taken the easy way out and chosen to turn against trans people, as it is the socially acceptable route to take during the height of this moral panic. What demonstrates true character is one's willingness to stand up for the marginalized even when it is unpopular to do so, not merely once doing so becomes socially acceptable.

[@LucasTgod]

It's not a moral panic, women don't want penises in their restrooms

[@Krysfranqui3638]

Well, that completely broke whatever hope my head left. So even blue states aren’t gonna be able to protect us. I don’t know what to say anymore. This is absolutely horrific.

[@justr6982]

The choice to politicize bathroom isn't anything complicated. People feel more vulnerable, uncomfortable, and exposed in public bathrooms. Especially conservatives who often let their unrecognized anxiety run rampant. So you tie that initial emotional to state trans people

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

I had never heard about the past lacking womens’ restrooms. That is fascinating, disturbing and valuable information.

[@ericthompson9610]

So will this ban lower my grocery bill ???

[@robynpress9534]

It absolutely won't. Lol

[@robynpress9534]

McBride should have stood up for herself, and by extension, all trans people.

[@prismpyre7653]

How do you think the first Black people and first straight women in Congress were treated? It was always going to be this way. And being a "first" always means, primarily, to be a martyr to abuse, bigotry and violence.

[@soph1111e]

What was she supposed to do? She's not in Congress yet

[@buckiesmalls]

@@soph1111e Go use the bathroom and force their hands on how this will be handled and show how ridiculous, of what they are proposing is. Who will be the first to step up and "gender check". Give no ground to fascist. I am sure those that voted for her wanted someone in power standing up..

[@buckiesmalls]

@@reg6947 They are going to be in congress regardless of "yet".

[@RealityHasAWokeBias]

​@@reg6947 Good job projecting YOUR hatred for women.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

I’m here in Florida and I knew things were bad, especially outside of my Orange County bubble, but uh. Jesus Christ *80%?!* I REALLY don’t want to move but I am conflicted that there might be a point where I feel I’ve waited til it’s “too late”.

[@LucasTgod]

America will be run by Republicans for at least the next 16 years. Nobody supports the Democrat party

[@rodneynoble6046]

It's crazy how many sis women are jealous of trans women. Even someof my progressive friends are going that way. No real fear, just jealousy. It's almost as stupid as the cultural appropriation arguments and very similar.

[@donalvarez4006]

We can stand up for trans rights while admitting that cultural appropriation is real

[@cathnbabs]

This is vital infos😢

[@moj1338]

I am extremely disappointed that McBride is pro-Israel. She should be respected for her choices but I am disappointed never the less.

[@LucasTgod]

lmfao

[@moj1338]

@LucasTgod What an absolute child you are!

[@fuzzybuzzy3159]

Wait did the bathroom ban pass?

[@LucasTgod]

They were able to thankfully ban males from the bathrooms with the House speaker's rules alone. A nationwide ban will be voted on soon. I'll be reporting any trans individual I see who tries to enter the ladies room

[@Iam_Limye]

I worry that there will be another Emit Till in this country

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

It’s just their latest target. They’ll move on to another group later

[@Odinarcade00]

What a shit country we live in.

[@hockeyinalabama]

16:15 I don't think it is that deep. The bathroom is a place where you feel vulnerable as it is the one place in public you get partially naked. Put that vulnerability next to one of the most heinous crimes, and it paints a picture.

[@justr6982]

Bingo

[@jet_black]

We are going to die on a hill fighting for issues that don't concern the average American. We have larger issues compounding this country, education, health benefits, and cost of living. Politics is timing and this isn't the time to go all in. We lost, we need to re-group and figure out what we are going to stand for.

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

That was what Danes said 5 minutes after the Nazi occupation.

[@titussardonicus338]

Human rights don't take a break. Sorry.

[@robynpress9534]

Right, just like Abe Lincoln fought for issues that didn't concern most Americans...

[@robynpress9534]

Ps - you *do* know the moment the rights wins on "the trans issue", they are coming right after to get rid of gay rights and likely interracial marriage too, right?

[@LilyJones-mu2cy]

Why concede to this framing, they will just move on to the next right to be eroded or taken away.

[@ProudBlackConservative1906]

Smh wtf loool God help us smh

[@novuspatriarch]

@ProudBlackConservative1906 yea i know how hard it is for yall to have any argument against it that doesn't make you sound like a creep

[@Fans-am-i-inferto]

your god isn't real.

[@ProudBlackConservative1906]

@Fans-am-i-inferto I will pray for you.

[@novuspatriarch]

@@Fans-am-i-inferto careful he's gonna cast magic at you. 😆

[@danyboyjo1394]

Great now wii got 3 dum 🤡 ignorant karens in congres office

[@jorgeangulo6282]

Yay. First to respond.

[@robynpress9534]

Isn't it most important to make that first comment be an actual comment though (other than "First!")?

[@highplainsgrifter600]

​@@robynpress9534Emma is basically a chimp, so aping like "first" is cooool

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@highplainsgrifter600cope

[@arcane4923]

Protect the women and children! Trump 2024

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@arcane4923 that’s the opposite

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@arcane4923 think. Just think for a second and you’ll realize that is completely wrong

[@arcane4923]

@@DarrenBladeSnider you should be thankful trump will be president, letting you keep the right of free speech. Something the left is relentlessly trying to get rid of.

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@arcane4923he’s the one who will take it away

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@arcane4923that’s the right that wants to take it away. Remember the left is the only side for it.

[@investigationportal]

This may be a rude question, but in re Nancy Mace "I don't want (male biology) in my bathroom", how does she know that Sarah McBride hasn't had SRS? Sarah McBride is an innately trans person. If you listen to her talk, she says that she has known she was trans her entire life. I have never met such a person who doesn't want SRS. I do not think Nancy Mace is a bigot. She doesn't come across like that to me. I am of the belief that all of these "anti-trans" people can be made to see things differently in re innately trans people. The part that people miss is that sex resides not only in the body but also in the brain. There are innately female people who are born with male sexual biology and vice-versa.

[@Mekelaina]

It doesn't matter. People like her view maleness/femaleness as an innate thing. Basically like a male/female soul. And to go against the "God ordained" order is inherently degenerate and evil. No matter what Sarah McBride does or doesn't do with transition. It makes no difference to them.

[@ericswag8465]

No

[@LucasTgod]

@@Mekelaina Because it is an innate thing lol, every cell of your body is male or female. Nothing can change it

[@kristinb8268]

Prior to the MAGA movement taking over Nancy Mace had put statements supporting trans people, and that they should be protected. Politicians like her will never be convinced because it's not about the merit of the debate for them. It's about doing and saying things that they believe their base wants to hear, and see. It's an act for her. There are a few Republican politicians who genuinely hate and despise trans people, but most are like Nancy Mace where basically her position will be based on the political winds of her primary voters. Yes, I do think a lot of people can be persuaded on the trans issue, but it will take a lot of work. Sadly, the trans community is even smaller than the gay community, and the issue of why trans girls and women should be allow in female sports, and spaces is something that takes a lot more explaining as to why we should do those things, than explaining to people what it means to be gay, that it's how they are born, and why they should have the right to marry. I just don't see that level of education by society to be a thing that's going to be happening in a big enough way for probably another 10 to 20 years. Especially with how little money and effort Democrats put into the issue versus how much money and effort the right wing puts into spreading anti-trans lies, and propaganda.

[@pjaypender1009]

ALL trans people are "innately trans." And there is no such thing as SRS. There are a number of surgeries that help trans people affirm their gender, but there is no single SRS.

[@billwatt3775]

"There can be no middle ground." "She's pro-Israel." Self-cancellation.

[@eholden6510]

@@billwatt3775 lol so what? She supports Israel. And?

[@MrKajjaGG]

And people who support Israel are generally amoral subhumans. Clear? Good. ​@@eholden6510

[@highplainsgrifter600]

Majority report and trans rejects are antisemites.

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@highplainsgrifter600nope.

[@anthonyrose2232]

Why don’t they just separate the bathrooms by sex, and then there’s no confusion ?

[@Time_Lost_Astromech]

and how do you enforce that? it still boils down to republicans wanting genital inspections.

[@robynpress9534]

Where do intersex people go?

[@prismpyre7653]

That's how it is, einstein. It's the magats are the ones creating confusion.

[@eholden6510]

@@robynpress9534intersex people are male or female. They aren’t a third sex lol

[@bazzy428]

Interesting idea. I wonder if that would work.🤔

[@arosieworld]

Just use the bathroom based on your sex and move on. Why does the democratic party have to die on this hill?!

[@LilyJones-mu2cy]

Don't come to us crying when they come for your rights next

[@robynpress9534]

@@arosieworld "I mean, why shouldn't trans women just suck it up and accept they will be assaulted in men's bathrooms? Why shouldn't they have to deal with that?" - you

[@enjoiskating963]

Because when a trans man with a beard walks into a women’s room because that was their “assigned gender” you guys are going to lose your damn minds, and probably assault that trans woman. At least that’s what the current data shows. Your bills lead to violence against trans people, not protecting cis people.

[@ericswag8465]

​@@LilyJones-mu2cynobody ever has

[@patchwurk6652]

"Stop complaining because I'm obsessed with your genitals!" -This weirdo

[@chrisyowell3013]

This makes me want to vote for Trump again

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

Just think for yourself and you’ll no longer want to

[@blurbwhore5920]

Voting for a person held liable for sexual assault, where the assault in question was forcibly digitally entering someone without her consent, means you don’t care about women. The only thing you’re telegraphing here is bigotry.

[@robynpress9534]

Voting for Trump is inherently anti-woman.

[@MrKajjaGG]

Hilarious how they delete dissenting opinion on this topic. Thats an unsubscribe from me. The majority, even left leaning, dont buy into these nonsense distractions from things that actually impact their lives. Peace.

[@Supercalifragilisticexpial-r2x]

What distractions

[@robynpress9534]

The only distraction was the fearmongering on the right.

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

The only people against trans rights are the ones brainwashed. No one in the real world cares.

[@MrKajjaGG]

@@robynpress9534 The fact you still view politics through the lens of left and right when neither political slant cares about you is hilarious. Please wake up and take your meds.

[@DarrenBladeSnider]

@@MrKajjaGGbut it’s the truth. The only people who care about this are on the right.

[@Supercalifragilisticexpial-r2x]

Many influencers are upset that Sarah McBride didn't protest the policy. First off, she did push back calling out their hypocrisy by highlighting how she is working for the needs of her constituents while they engage in pettiness. We need her to be poised eloquent and to not get into the weeds with the mean girl MTG contingent who want her to take the bait. They want her to get into the weeds with them preferably in an "its maam" style crash and burn to label her as toxicly masculine. Her rising above the fray will be seen more like MLKs peaceful legal demonstration in bensonhurst where he instructed his contingent to not talk back to his antagonizers. The images of the hateful retoric while he and his folllowers maintained a dignified presence was seen around the world and had a positive impact for the movement. Transpeople should do similarly going into rural areas in the south doung marches and getting it on tape for the world to see. Will there be losses. Yes. The civil rights leaders knew some would not return from the mission including MLK himself who was assassinated in 1968. He understood that you don't get anywhere without sacrifice. Since they couldn't get her to get upset about bathrooms, they will push her with male pronouns. That's when they will start looking like mean girls which will start to show people who didn't have an initial dislike of transpeople before this orchestrated hate wave these last few years, that the conservatives are engaging in manufactured outrage and that hating transpeople is the point and not some genuine concern. If she were to go into the women's room they would paint her as initiating an aggressive move which would take away the focus of their meanness when they go to plan b (pronouns) as some will think that she started it and hence deserved the misgendering. It's really important that she be dignified. If Johnson goes as far as making her dress in the male dress code. That is covered by bostock and that's when she can disobey as he will have over played his hand and the public will start seeing the maga movement for what it is. I want him to over play his hand. Mlk counted on authorities in the south overplaying their hand. She's the only transperson who broke through to the big show. The big show being a nationally known transwoman that will have an audience in the arena of politics. Thanks to the cis hetero corporate management combined with the dylan mulvaney boycott which caused a freeze on transwomen being hired for visible positions like news reporters , the hopes for more good trans visibility are dashed. Thats why she is extremely important. She is our Jackie Robinson. He was selected instead of Satchel Paige because too much was riding on the first black person entering the big leagues. They knew satchel was going to fight back. Jackie knew the whole weight of his race was on his shoulders and that he had to bite his lip for the first few years to not allow his antogonizers to take the focus away from his greatness as a player and a human. Too many transwomen take the bait and become the aggressor which is exactly what the gc feminists want. While she can stay above the fray, we can do the dirty work. Another protest Ive suggested which is different than the bensonhurst style one i describe above is for transmen trained in self defense to go into women's bathrooms in Florida which will lead to confrontation and violence to demonstrate the intrinsic flaw in the bathroom laws that don't take into consideration the social impact of transition. Again this is a completely legal protest. This also needs to be well orchestrated and put on tape for the world to see.

[@Supercalifragilisticexpial-r2x]

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[@hash8169]

I don't think we need her to be MLK or Rosa Parks, she's just a person like anyone else. nothing in particular rests entirely on her shoulders; this is an ongoing issue of continual advocacy for human rights.

[@Supercalifragilisticexpial-r2x]

@hash8169 . I never said the fate of transpeople entirely rests on her shoulders