Trans Woman Arrested, Sent to Men’s Jail For Entering Florida Capitol Bathroom
Trans Woman Arrested, Sent to Men’s Jail For Entering Florida Capitol Bathroom
She did this as a form of protest, they had police stationed at the bathroom. I feel like this was so naive and dangerous and it won't change the policy. Really bad stuff can happen to trans women in men's prisons and it will follow you for life :/
I respect her conviction. Individual action failing to have large impacts is entirely predictable. This shows the importance of organizing. Organize, become a collective threat, force or demand change because you have the power of the collective backing you up. Become intimidating.
I'm still stuck on what she said. It's extremely USAmerican to say, “I’m not a political activist,” and then do political activism.
Idk, she's also 20 years old. A lot of us thought we were invincible and free from consequences at 20
It may have gotten into interesting territory if instead of going to the Capitol herself, she had a cis girl look-alike go in her place, and pretend to be her.
I wouldn't expect it to change much but there would be some spectacular gears grinding in the process of detaining a cis woman for entering a bathroom, on suspicion of being a trans woman entering a bathroom.
The winning perspective here is that a bathroom police is eventually going to come for us all.
Did she genuinely think if she seemed normal-christian-white-girl enough they wouldn't touch her?
There are definitely some strains of thought of that kind in parts of the trans community, especially among the trans medicalist folks. There's a subset of trans folks that believe the present upsurge in bigotry is due to the presence of nonbinary people, polyamorous folks, and any other trans folks that don't present as conventional binary heterosexual. Her vibe really screams that. "I just have to show these police that trans people can be perfectly normal, and they'll leave us alone!"
I see this belief as a tragic and misguided self-defense mechanism. It's really hard to accept that there are simply people that will hate you for no reason. It is deeply hard to accept that there are people that want you dead, and there is nothing you can do to dissuade them. It's really easy to fall into the trap of thinking that if trans people simply all acted "normal," then the hate would go away. This kind of thinking is comforting to some people. It at least provides a path out of the nightmare the trans community finds itself in. If we all just became straight-presenting, then everyone would leave us alone. It provides a kind of desperate hope. There is some path forward for the trans community to escape bigotry. If we just assimilate, we can end the madness.
In truth the recent upswing in anti-trans hate has nothing to do with the existence of nonbinary or any other less conventional form of trans folks. People that we would now call nonbinary have existed for generations. The recent upswing in hate is entirely artificial and the result of a deliberate propaganda campaign by Republicans. They lost on the same-sex marriage issue, they managed to overturn Roe, and now they need a new moral panic to rile up the base. That's it. The trans community could be composed entirely of trans women that look and act like this woman and trans men that look and act like frat bros, and the recent upsurge in anti-trans bigotry would still have occurred. They needed someone to hate, so they found someone to hate. It's fascism 101, always find and target the Other.
with an appreciation for “family values”…
Nuclear family ideology certainly isn't opposed to gender nonconformity, right? Right??
Girl, these people fucking hate you and want you dead. Don’t bother trying to appeal to their better side, it doesn’t exist.
:yea: I don't understand why people think appealing to them will work
She's 20. I don't blame her for not realizing this yet after a childhood of propaganda. Very unfortunate way to get radicalized, but it's gonna happen fast for her.
People should just destroy every men's bathroom in Florida to show them what it's like to be a trans woman
"Sorry, sir, bathroom's out of order and if you go into the women's we will be FORCED to arrest you for being a pedophile and sex pervert."
feel like shit, just want them back
The cops will know who they're supposed to arrest for using the "wrong" bathroom. It is not cis men.
"thank god we kept women safe" says state that will be underwater within a human lifetime
Death to Amerikkka obviously but Florida especially
Going to jail for a fucking bathroom crime (washing your hands while trans).
Hi, my name is Marcy Rheintgen, I'm a twenty year old college student, and I'm writing this letter to tell you that I'm going to break the law.
I know that you know in your heart that transgender people are human too, and that you can't arrest us away. I know that you know in your heart that transgender people are no different from you or anybody else. I know that you know in your heart that the same people that go to church with you, eat in the same restaurants, go to the same schools, root for the same sports teams, watch the same movies, and pray to the same God as you cannot be all bad. I know that you know that I have dignity. That's why I know you won't arrest me.
Peak lib praxis, just a perfect example of the docile, ineffective nature of liberalism
I hope she will look back on this in a few years as a misguided, but ultimately good thing, when she's fighting with the Everglade Maoist People's Liberation Army cuz it made her and some other libs finally realize that the bourgeoisie are NOT human
I hope she will be okay if they are so cruel as to put her in prison :(
Hence why you should use gender neutral bathrooms and just urinate on cops from now on.
So someone could be arrested for walking into the wrong bathroom? They need to make sure this goes to trial, I'd want to hear about how it goes and I bet I'm not the only one.
Freest country on earth btw
