Courtesy of the Advocate:I'm taking a Glock .45 to the ladies room. It identifies as my bodyguard. #BoycottTarget @Target— Liberty Lawyer (@AnitaStaver) April 22, 2016
Anti-LGBT activists are taking the newfound role of “potty police” to the next level, pledging to carry weapons into public restrooms to “protect” against trans people using the bathroom that matches their gender identity.
The threats came after retailer Target announced Wednesday it would allow transgender patrons to use the restroom of their choice. The policy is a slap at North Carolina’s anti-LGBT House Bill 2, which, among other things, bars transgender people from using facilities that correspond with their gender identity, if those are in government buildings; it does let private-sector companies set their own policies. In response to Target's action, at least two right-wing leaders promised to meet trans people in the bathroom — with firearms.
The preliminary warning shot came from Anita Staver, president of the right-wing, anti-LGBT Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit conservative legal group — best known for representing defiant antigay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis — that recently told CBS News it is proudly pushing transphobic “bathroom bills” nationwide.
On Friday, Staver — who is married to Liberty Counsel’s chairman and cofounder, Mat Staver — sent out a tweet blasting Target’s trans-inclusive policy. “I’m taking a Glock .45 to the ladies room,” she wrote, before adding what appears to be a dig at the concept that someone could identify as a gender other than that they were assigned at birth.
If you don't think that this will not result in some poor person being shot to death in a public restroom than you certainly have not been paying attention to the news lately.
And what exactly would be the "offense" that earned some poor person the death penalty at the hands of a panicky homophobic gun nut?
Would it be for being too manly in the ladies room? Or too effeminate in the men's room?
Because if that is the case I know several straight non-transgender folks who are going to have to start wearing bullet proof vests before they tinkle in public.
As a flat-chested, plain ol' mountain woman, I may need to put on lipstick, just to go to the bathroom, if this Staver dudette is around. And would that even help? She'll probably shoot first and ask questions later. Who knew us boyish women would need to be afraid of ladies in the bathroom?
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DeleteI'm sure Sarah Palin pees with the seat up.
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DeleteWhich one is Lindsey Graham's, or Sarah Palin's?
Delete6:28 AM What will Sarah Palin have to do when she is not wearing her Belmonts and butt imolants? She looks like a man. In which bathroom will she be welcome?
DeleteStuff like this makes me think seriously about emigrating even if Drumph doesn't win. This glorification of carrying guns and using them to solve any and all problems and disagreements is terrifying.
ReplyDeleteYou saw it here first: "Travel Alert: U.S. is now officially a no-visit zone."
Delete@6:33 AM - It certainly discourages me from vacationing in the U.S. and I'm sure I'm not alone.
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DeleteTHere are European countries that give advisories to avoid certain states in the US already.
Makes me feel great to have dual citizenship the way this country is going. All but 2 of my sons and their families have already moved across the border to the north.
DeleteWhat are these nut jobs gonna do, hire bathroom police? "Stop, you can't pee until I see whether you have a whoo ha or a weenie! Or I'll shoot!" That will be great for business!
ReplyDeleteI know a transgender woman (fully transitioned from male) who, if she didn't tell you, you'd never guess--she looks more feminine than most.
DeleteWhat happens when she goes into the male bathroom? Does she have to show her official "papers", or is it shoot first, ask questions later??
And I once backed out of a public restroom, thinking in my absentmindedness I (female) had gone in the wrong one, because here, at the hand dryer was what I took to be a male. This was on a college campus. Turned out to be a student of mine (female) and star shotput athlete in her regular attire of long cargo shorts, T shirt and baseball hat. Because those were the clothes that fit her. And she liked. This is a step to regulating dress again.
DeleteUN-freaking-believable ! Just when you think they can't get any crazier, they do. Now vigilantes are going to come into the bathroom locked & loaded looking for anyone that doesn't fit their mold.
ReplyDeleteI guess I'll have to carry my wabbit wifle to the westwoom so I can defend myself from the delusional, degenerate, mentally ill, willfully ignorant woman with a glock.
ReplyDeletePublic restrooms are about to get wild! Yee-Haw! Stand off in the shitter!
OT-GUNS>"daughter’s boyfriend, a security guard, must have accidentally left his weapon in the vehicle. The father said"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/wisconsin-mom-shot-and-killed-from-back-seat-by-2-year-old-son/
What do these buffoons think?
ReplyDeleteThat a transgender person is little more than, say, Ernest Borgnine wearing a bad wig?
These fools couldn't tell a transgender person from a non-transgender person to save their lives.
It constantly surprises me that such simple-minded goofballs can keep getting elected to higher office.
They continue to be elected because the sad truth is a staggery large percentage of Americans are goofballs themselves. Sandy Hook has yet to generate as much outrage as bathroom laws.
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What's truly hilarious and/or totally aggravating about all this is that they actually think that they haven't already faced this situation dozens of times -- but just didn't know it BECAUSE THERE IS NO DAMN THREAT !!!
ReplyDeleteTea Partiers: Solutions in search of problems.
Surely a smaller handgun than a Glock would be more efficient for summary bathroom executions?
ReplyDeleteConsidering that detecting inappropriate toilet usage would obviously trigger (see what I did there?) a self-righteous 'shoot-first, ask questions later'-type scenario most likely against an unarmed transgendered individual, perhaps a .22 or .25 caliber handgun would be the better choice. Not that collateral damage, such as killing innocent bystanders, should ever deter a true vigilante from taking action. A responsible vigilante will always regret leaving behind dead innocents, but hey, shit happens...
Hopefully the NRA will weigh in soon on the best configuration - PEW! PEW! PEW! - to deploy in America's rapidly worsening bathroom crisis.
The older I get, the harder it is for me to sometimes tell men from women....especially older folks. And if you doubt me, just sit in your vehicle outside any WalMart and watch the people go by. It is not a crime to be flat chested, wear flannel or work shoes...and I can go on and on. And when I have to use restroom, I have only one thing on my mind. If you look for shit, you are gonna find it so we all should just mind our own business. And I say this from a mother who stood outside men's room waiting for my son when he got too big to use ladies room with me. Take care of your own backyard!
ReplyDeletelove this. it says it so well. and I have to wonder what Dad's do with their 4-5 year old daughters when potty time comes in a public place.
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ReplyDeleteSo carrying a birth certificate will now be required? But wait, that's not a photo ID for obvious reasons.
DeleteI'm white, straight, female with b00bies, and I have a VERY deep voice.
ReplyDeleteWill I be sh0t if I ask the next stall to pass some paper?
O/T - Watching the Donald read his foreign policy speech off the teleprompters (very poorly, I might add.) What does Silly Sarah have to say about that?!?!
ReplyDelete730,000 people have signed the petition. WOW. That is a whole .00228 percent of the US population. I wouldn't call that an overwhelming mandate.
ReplyDeleteI thought at first she had said that the Glock .45 "identifies as my body PART" – cyborg ammosexual hybridization going on?
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly do you expect the right wingers to do?!
ReplyDeleteI mean, they lost BIG in the bedroom (same-sex marriages are allowed almost everywhere), so, the only place they might still 'score' is in the bathrooms!
It's a ladies room.There are locked stalls.How would she even know if someone was transgender?
ReplyDeleteeasy - they tarted peeping
Deleteseems these morons so worried about perverts thinks committing a sex crime is the way to go - if they ever bothered learning peeping actually is a crime
these morons need registered so forced to stay away from public parks and schools and any and all places kids go -- you know the registry laws
stay tuned -- shootout at shitter corral
Is your gun male, female, or transgender? What a bunch of sick people. They have nothing better to do than get attention anyway they can. I mean no disrepect, but imagine one of them going to meet their maker and their maker is LGBorT?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'll shop Target more often, and any other company that supports my LGBT brothers and sisters. Target does a lot of philanthropic work and they have a mix of mid to high range products.
Can these people read? How do they know someone's birth certificate information? Are they going under the stalls with flashlights? I don't care what sex someone is in a public restroom.