I am sorry but how does this protect any student or adult … it also includes higher education. Notice this part … About 3% of high school students identify as transgender, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is in a country of 337 million people.
This is only a hate bill based on the absurd idea that trans women want to assault girls. Notice it is always trans girls / women they talk about never trans boys or trans men. It is a made up problem that never happened so they have to destroy a small minority of people’s lives to prove a point of their bigotry. I am so sick of this posturing on the part of republicans trying to do to trans what they couldn’t do to the gays 30 years ago. It is the same tactics and hate they promote. If you want to know the real cost listen to the trans students who quit school because they had nowhere to go to the bathroom, or the trans students who were given approved bathrooms so far from their classes that they missed some and got bad marks for simply needing to pee before the class started. These bills have real world consequences for young people in every state. It is not just the bathroom issue but it makes a trans person a target even if there is a “trans bathroom” assigned. It means any student using it is outing themselves to the ones that want to target them for abuse.
Again this solves no problem but does promote hate and bigotry … and it is driven by religious bigotry because of the fundamentalist belief that their god created them male and female only. They are demanding we run our society, or 2024 understands on the book written by religious leaders 2,500 years ago. Think about it, these people had no idea of everything we take for granted today, yet the fundamentalist who demand we ;deny rights to trans people do it based on that book of people who did not even understand germs! These bills are designed to promote a religion and a religious view of life / morality in the public life. I am an old gay man, this still affects me. Because bigotry against one group’s rights is bigotry against all people’s rights! If these people get the right to exclude trans people from bathrooms what is next? Gay people on the same idea that we are a threat? Or hell watch about the old segregation idea that blacks are a threat to whites in bathrooms? See this is the same playbook. This is not different from black people shouldn’t be in white people’s bathrooms. Hugs
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a bill into law banning transgender students from using school bathrooms and locker rooms that match up with their gender identity.
The law requires people at Ohio K-12 schools and universities use the restroom that aligns with their gender assigned at birth. It also bans students from sharing overnight accommodations with people of the opposite sex from their assigned sex at birth at K-12 schools.
This does not prevent a school from having single-occupancy facilities and does not apply to someone helping a person with a disability or a child younger than 10 years old being assisted by a parent, guardian or family member.
The law will take effect 90 days after DeWine signed the bill.
Several transgender Ohioans, allies and educators called on DeWine to veto the bill. The Ohio Capital Journal recently talked to a family who plans on moving out of Ohio because of anti-transgender legislation at the Statehouse.
The bathroom ban (House Bill 183) was added to a bill that revises College Credit Plus (Senate Bill 104) in the eleventh hour of a House Session at the end of June before the lawmakers went on an extended break.
The American Medical Association officially opposes policies preventing transgender individuals from accessing basic human services and public facilities consistent with gender identity.
Slightly more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth in Ohio considered suicide in 2022, according to the Trevor Project.
About a third of LGBTQ+ students were prevented from using the bathroom that aligned with their gender and slightly more than a quarter were stopped from using the locker room that aligned with their gender, according to Ohio’s 2021 state snapshot by GLSEN, which examines the school experiences of LGBTQ middle and high school students.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine gives his 2024 State of the State address in the Ohio House chambers at the Ohio Statehouse on Wednesday afternoon. (Pool photo by Barbara J. Perenic, Columbus Dispatch.)
Forty-two percent of transgender and nonbinary students were unable to use the bathroom that aligned with their gender and 36% couldn’t use the locker room that aligned with their gender, according to the Ohio GLSEN report.
Transgender youth who can’t use the bathroom that aligns with their gender are at a greater risk of sexual violence, according to a 2019 study published in the journal Pediatrics.
Florida, Oklahoma, Idaho, and Tennessee’s laws have all been challenged. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit blocked Idaho’s law last year.
North Carolina made history in 2016 by becoming the first state to ban bathroom access to transgender people. The law was quickly appealed in 2017 and settled in federal court in 2019, but the state ended up losing hundreds of millions of dollars as the NBA All-Star Game and NCAA events were moved out of state.
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The thing about hate based legislation, is that at sometime down the road it will backfire on those who enacted it, either in the vote, in their perceived standing as a decent person, or in some personal way.
Blind folly trying to impose simplistic biased solutions on complex evolving issues.
Hi Roger. I understand what you are saying in my head. But in my heart I am angry and frustrated. Trans people used bathrooms for generations without any issues or problems. I read that one of the fundamentalist religious think tanks looked at how they lost the culture war on gay acceptance, and were determined not to loss the same war on trans acceptance. So they used their leverage with the right to create an issue that was never there before. They created a fear that trans women are a threat to little girls … just like the old thing about gay men being a threat to little boys. Notice it is only trans women they care about and target? Why because it is easier to scare people about a threat to their daughter from “men”.
You say in the down the road it will fail. I agree just as attacks against gay people did. But in the meantime young kids are killing themselves and being denied the medical care they need to keep them from going through the wrong puberty letting their bodies change in ways they can not accept about themselves. They are not able to be themselves in school because they can not dress or be called the pronouns and names they identify as. So these kids drop out or kill themselves. Either way it is an endless pain we need to first stop and then lay at the feet of those who pushed these lies and laws that cause this needless pain. Hugs
This is where the quiet resistance I mentioned in my previous reply comes in Scottie.
We know full well about the vocal and virulent fundamentalists. The next question is how many folk in an essentially secular society buy into their entire agenda heart and mind.
This is where their twin weak spots are. The question to be posed to the secular population, is ‘Are You Ready For When They Come For You?’ – ‘encouraging you to come to their church, firstly in a friendly way and then, not so.
The subsequent an allied question would be ‘Are you willing to sacrifice a nearest to you to their anti-tran agenda, just for a quiet life. For they will not be satisfied with that?’
If this theme is put out in the public zone, with the intention of isolating the fundamentalists at a level which folk can relate to, this builds in a nascent resistance, of the quiet sort, thus supplying sanctuary and support for those going through the tran experience.
From my perspective these heretics who twist or ignore the teachings of the Four Gospels must be shown for what they are and not tolerated into position of authority or influence.
Hi Roger. I agree with you and the tactic you mentioned. However I hope the more main stream members don’t dawdle in getting the idea that the threat is for them also. How long did it take Germans to learn Hitler and crew were not just going after Jewish people. My fear is the public will not wake up in time. Hugs
How long….. That would have been sometime in mid 1944 after the serious assassination attempt on Hitler and the Nazi machine went into overdrive……By then it was too late for Germany as a whole, the allies were set on unconditional surrender and making sure there would be nothing left of the war machine or the Nazi party as an organised group……Total War.
I think the public will wake up when the Court of Trump’s enactments start to come knocking on their doors. The Court is going to find it very rocky to try and hold down the whole nation.
Some American folk I exchange view with on WP reckon The Youth in general are the only hope for the USA.
They may be right. My hope also lies in the 70,000,000+ who saw through the lies and distrotions.
I meant to add I wonder what happened to all the Hitler youth movement kids? What will happen to the kids growing up in maga families hearing all this hate? Hugs
The Hitler Youth membership was a complex business. This was a generation which had indeed in part been indoctrinated. But joining the Hitler Youth was also something you did because of peer pressure and maybe because your parents might get looked upon with suspicion if you didn’t.
That did not mean however that every member was a devoted Nazi, you tended to find those in the SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.
In post war Germany Hitler Youth remembers tended just be to expert scavengers and thieves keeping their families alive.
In later decades Germany under went a great change accepting the Nazi era was a great error, and enacted laws or movements to remove this from the ideology.
The lessons seem to be being forgotten these days
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The thing about hate based legislation, is that at sometime down the road it will backfire on those who enacted it, either in the vote, in their perceived standing as a decent person, or in some personal way.
Blind folly trying to impose simplistic biased solutions on complex evolving issues.
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Hi Roger. I understand what you are saying in my head. But in my heart I am angry and frustrated. Trans people used bathrooms for generations without any issues or problems. I read that one of the fundamentalist religious think tanks looked at how they lost the culture war on gay acceptance, and were determined not to loss the same war on trans acceptance. So they used their leverage with the right to create an issue that was never there before. They created a fear that trans women are a threat to little girls … just like the old thing about gay men being a threat to little boys. Notice it is only trans women they care about and target? Why because it is easier to scare people about a threat to their daughter from “men”.
You say in the down the road it will fail. I agree just as attacks against gay people did. But in the meantime young kids are killing themselves and being denied the medical care they need to keep them from going through the wrong puberty letting their bodies change in ways they can not accept about themselves. They are not able to be themselves in school because they can not dress or be called the pronouns and names they identify as. So these kids drop out or kill themselves. Either way it is an endless pain we need to first stop and then lay at the feet of those who pushed these lies and laws that cause this needless pain. Hugs
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This is where the quiet resistance I mentioned in my previous reply comes in Scottie.
We know full well about the vocal and virulent fundamentalists. The next question is how many folk in an essentially secular society buy into their entire agenda heart and mind.
This is where their twin weak spots are. The question to be posed to the secular population, is ‘Are You Ready For When They Come For You?’ – ‘encouraging you to come to their church, firstly in a friendly way and then, not so.
The subsequent an allied question would be ‘Are you willing to sacrifice a nearest to you to their anti-tran agenda, just for a quiet life. For they will not be satisfied with that?’
If this theme is put out in the public zone, with the intention of isolating the fundamentalists at a level which folk can relate to, this builds in a nascent resistance, of the quiet sort, thus supplying sanctuary and support for those going through the tran experience.
From my perspective these heretics who twist or ignore the teachings of the Four Gospels must be shown for what they are and not tolerated into position of authority or influence.
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Hi Roger. I agree with you and the tactic you mentioned. However I hope the more main stream members don’t dawdle in getting the idea that the threat is for them also. How long did it take Germans to learn Hitler and crew were not just going after Jewish people. My fear is the public will not wake up in time. Hugs
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How long….. That would have been sometime in mid 1944 after the serious assassination attempt on Hitler and the Nazi machine went into overdrive……By then it was too late for Germany as a whole, the allies were set on unconditional surrender and making sure there would be nothing left of the war machine or the Nazi party as an organised group……Total War.
I think the public will wake up when the Court of Trump’s enactments start to come knocking on their doors. The Court is going to find it very rocky to try and hold down the whole nation.
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Roger I really hope you are correct. But I admit I worry about the youth in my country. Hugs
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Some American folk I exchange view with on WP reckon The Youth in general are the only hope for the USA.
They may be right. My hope also lies in the 70,000,000+ who saw through the lies and distrotions.
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I meant to add I wonder what happened to all the Hitler youth movement kids? What will happen to the kids growing up in maga families hearing all this hate? Hugs
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The Hitler Youth membership was a complex business. This was a generation which had indeed in part been indoctrinated. But joining the Hitler Youth was also something you did because of peer pressure and maybe because your parents might get looked upon with suspicion if you didn’t.
That did not mean however that every member was a devoted Nazi, you tended to find those in the SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.
In post war Germany Hitler Youth remembers tended just be to expert scavengers and thieves keeping their families alive.
In later decades Germany under went a great change accepting the Nazi era was a great error, and enacted laws or movements to remove this from the ideology.
The lessons seem to be being forgotten these days
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