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Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested at the Florida State Capitol after intentionally entering a women’s restroom in protest of the state’s transgender bathroom law.

Civil rights lawyers say it is the first known arrest under such laws in any U.S. state.

Rheintgen faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge and could face up to 60 days in jail.

Florida is one of only two states to criminalize such acts.

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[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Trans activists are going about this all wrong. Instead of sending someone like Marcy in to violate the law, they need to do this:

Send in the biggest, burliest, hairiest ftm trans dudes into busy ladies rooms, the room that the state insists he must now legally use. And record the reaction of the women and girls leaving for broadcast media. Because by focussing on mtf trans in ladies rooms, I really feel the dipshits that make these laws haven't thought their cunning plans through very fully.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Send in the biggest, burliest, hairiest ftm trans dudes into busy ladies rooms, the room that the state insists he must now legally use.

I mean, that's what we've functionally done. The distinction is that the biggest, burliest, hairiest dude isn't ftm trans, he's a fucking cop.

In an exclusive interview with The Advocate, Morton detailed the humiliating and distressing encounter. She said that she had entered the restroom with her ex-girlfriend, who handed her a tampon, when two male deputies stormed in, shining flashlights into the stall and demanding she exit. Morton, still using the toilet, was stunned.

“They were flashing lights on our feet and saying, ‘You have to get out of here. You have to come out. We need to talk to you,’” Morton said. “I’m telling them, ‘I’m still using the restroom. I’m sitting down, I’m peeing. What is the issue?’”

When she finally exited the stall, she said she lifted her shirt to prove she was not a man, expecting the ordeal to end. Instead, she said one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she “looked like a man.” Morton started recording, later posting a 9-second clip to TikTok, where it has since been viewed more than 3.7 million times. “They came in here in the girls’ restroom because I’m a girl and they didn’t think I was a girl, so they tried to come take me away,” she says in the video.

Like, this is the fucking future. The problem is that - outside of specifically LGBTQ media like The Advocate - it gets virtually no press. Cops terrorizing women in the restroom and demanding that they prove they aren't Transgender just aren't something the deeply conservative and heavily Trump-pilled local media oligarchs want appearing on TV.

You get stories like OP's instead, specifically because they do feed into the "Men are trying to sneak into the women's room to attack your daughter/wife/girlfriend"

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Idk if its any fairer to send trans men in. Plus a pretty girl garners more sympathy.

Realistically trying to make them enforce them with genital inspections is the only thing that will make the public think about the ramifications

Edit: I'm not going to advocate saying this but I think the funniest take would be to say gender restricted bathrooms are part of the gay agenda and if girls and boys can use the same restroom at home they can use them in public.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

You gotta understand that they don't see a pretty girl. What they see is a freak, a pervert, or in my moms words "a demon from the pits of hell".

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Idk andrew tate - who is a freak and sex predator attuned to right wing sentiments- begs to differ.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

No. No he doesn't, he plays to their "boys will be boys" montra

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Ah they did say the demons of hell could take a deceivingly pretty appearance 🤔

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Even genital inspections aren't a catch all