Alabama city to jail trans people for using bathrooms that don't match gender on birth certificates.

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transphobia
The war against the trans community just reached a new level of horrific.

Oxford, Alabama passed a law on Tuesday that specifies a penalty for trans individuals who do not use the bathroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate. If caught, violators face a $500 fine, or up to 6 months in jail.

Oxford, Alabama is the first in the country to enact criminal penalties for those in the trans community. The law is a response to retailer Target's statement that anyone can use the store bathroom that matches the gender they identify with. The president of the Oxford City Council adopted the law in order to protect the women and children of the town.

Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's LGBT Project released a statement, saying:
"This is a very concerning expansion of the ways in which trans people are going to be and have been policed. It’s essentially just criminalizing trans existence."

My Two Cents

If the laws in North Carolina weren't horrific enough, now we have to deal with cities adopting criminal penalties based upon someone's gender identity? Why can't people pee in the bathroom that makes them comfortable?
We have all peed in a bathroom with someone who is transgender, and we all survived. The trans community just wants to pee. How is that punishable by a fine and jail time? Isn't there something better that the town of Oxford, Alabama can do with the taxpayer's money than to back such an absurd law?

Are there going to be guards at every bathroom in the bible belt, checking to see if our genitalia
matches our birth gender? How silly is that? There are REAL CRIMINALS out there that need to be arrested. Why waste time policing an innocent community?

The trans community just wants to f*cking pee!

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