This Alabama City Will Now Put Transgender People In Jail For Peeing At Target

[KamaAina]

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/04/27/3773081/oxford-alabama-transgender-jail/

On Tuesday night, the City Council of Oxford, Alabama unanimously approved a new ordinance that will punish individuals for using restrooms that do not match their biological sex as stated on their birth certificate. The policy is a direct response to Target indicating that trans people are welcome and will be respected in their stores.

According to the text of the ordinance, “citizens have a right to quite [sic] solicitude [sic] and to be secure from embarrassment and unwanted intrusion into their privacy while utilizing multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facilities by members of the opposite biological sex.”

It also warns that “single sex public facilities are places of increased venerability [sic] and present the potential for crimes against individuals utilizing those facilities which may include, but not limited to, voyeurism, exhibitionism, molestation, and assault and battery.”

Anywhere within the city’s police jurisdiction, it is now a criminal offense for transgender people to use restrooms that match their gender identity unless they have undergone surgery and successfully changed the gender marker on their birth certificate.

Mmmmmkay. Pray tell, which jail will they be held in?

[Iris]

1. Proof that crime must really be down.

If the police have time for this shit.

[haikugal]

2. Where ever they'll be most abused of course. They must be punished!

This needs to be challenged...I really hate these people.

[David__77]

3. Do the conservatives promoting these laws really want them in restrooms at all?

Are they really advocating that someone who was born biologically female, and had a sex reassignment surgery and now appears to be and is being a male, use a women's restroom? Somehow that strikes me as counterintuitive.

[mnhtnbb]

4. These people are so stupid they don't know the difference between vulnerable and venerable.

Every one of the council members lists a church affiliation--most of them Baptist--on their info pages as council members.

Tell me this isn't about Bible thumpers hating LGBT people.

[procon]

5. the City Council of Oxford, Alabama, needs a 3rd grade grammar teacher.

Did they really mean to say "quite solicitude", or was it supposed to read, "quiet solitude"?

They wrote, "public facilities are places of increased venerability." Now, venerability, by definition, means commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity. OK, that might have been their true intent, and it's quite possible that Alabama's public bathrooms are chock full of old folks peeing in a dignified manner, but I suspect the word they were looking for was, "vulnerability".

These ignorant people are fixated on peeing, but the real problems seems to be their piss poor education system.

[Eleanors38]

6. Nah, they were looking for "venereal." Or maybe "ventilation."