… in the locker room
If you live in Washington State and you’re a woman, and a man walks into a locker room and starts undressing in front of you, it is now illegal for you to ask him what he is doing there, much less ask him to leave. If you have discomfort with the situation, you have to leave the locker room quietly. The naked guy gets to stay.
The Washington State Human Rights Commission, a regulatory agency, has been empowered by the Washington State legislature to draft legally binding rules for businesses to prevent “discrimination” on the basis of “sexual orientation and gender expression[.]” The commission has released its final rule, and boy is it a doozy.
Among other things, the rule makes it illegal to ask “unwelcome personal questions about an individual’s sexual orientation, gender expression or gender identity, or transgender status.” In other words, not only can women not prevent a person with full male equipment from entering their restroom or locker room, they can’t even ask what he is doing there.
Given that the rule applies to schools as well as businesses, your child can now run afoul of this law if they encounter one of the increasing number of prepubescent kids who are victims of the particular species of child abuse where parents tell their 8 year old kid they are transgendered.
As to what constitutes an “unwelcome” personal question about a person’s gender expression, the rule does not say; presumably, the person who is being questioned has sole discretion over whether to make someone into a lawbreaker or not.
The rule also makes it illegal for a business (including a school) to deliberately misuse the pronoun any person would prefer, thus meaning that Washington State has joined the city of New York in fining people who call human males “he” if they decide they want to be called “she.”
Ostensible transgender activists would have you know, after they got tired screaming TRANSPHOBE at you, they just want to “pee in peace” — and always refer to the restroom part of these bills.
If a dragqueen or transgender actually looks female, no one will know they aren’t a woman and, using a stall, privacy will be maintained. So yeah, if you can pass for female and keep your penis behind the closed stall door, you can “pee in peace.”
But if a man exposes his penis to a woman or girl in the women/girls gym locker room without expressed permission (remember ‘yes means yes’), then said female needs to start screaming and demanding his arrest.
The activists say this will never happen … but they assured us that same-sex marriage wouldn’t affect those that disagree with it either.
I’m still waiting to hear what Left-female supremacists have to say about this.
h/t Jeff
“The desires of the few outweigh the rights of the many”
If you indulge the mentally ill as much as this society has been, this is what you can expect.
This is more of the assault on Christianity. They know they can’t outlaw the religion, so they mandate sin. See: Oregon cake bakers.