The form lets people reporting trans bathroom users submit up to 5 photos even though taking pictures in restrooms is illegal.
Texas’ virulently anti-trans attorney general, Ken Paxton ®, has launched a tip line that allows people to report on suspected trans people they believe are violating the state’s new bathroom ban.
In a statement announcing the tip line, Paxton said the Texas Women’s Privacy Act – which requires people in public buildings to use bathrooms based on sex assigned at birth – “was passed to ensure that women and girls in Texas are protected from mentally ill men wanting to violate their basic right to privacy.”
“It’s absolute insanity that action like this is even needed,” he claimed, “but unfortunately, in the day and age of radical leftism, it is.”
In reality, research has shown no evidence that allowing trans women access to single-sex spaces like bathrooms poses a safety risk to cisgender women.
I wonder how many women will be getting photographed mistakenly (or out of malice) and accused of being trans?
I think this number will be more than population of T people in Texas. Also some T people on estrogen looks enough feminine to not be suspected.
Even as someone who’s only a year into transition, I get a LOT more stares in a men’s room than I do a women’s room (which is actually zero) at this point. I have a good friend who was already pretty femme pre-transition and if she’s in a men’s room, guys will absolutely turn around and check the sign. As much as people think they can instantly clock a trans person, it’s far less the case than you might think, and a trans man going into a women’s restroom is going to be a problem just as the opposite is true.
They know but it’s not an argument being made in good faith.
Once people realize they effectively forcing men into women’s washrooms by law, they’ll try to stop ‘vagina people’ from wearing pants.
Cruelty is the point. Trans people are a small enough population and partially hidden so they are a great target as they aren’t in a great position to defend themselves effectively.