Summary
Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested at the Florida State Capitol after intentionally entering a women’s restroom in protest of the state’s transgender bathroom law.
Civil rights lawyers say it is the first known arrest under such laws in any U.S. state.
Rheintgen faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge and could face up to 60 days in jail.
Florida is one of only two states to criminalize such acts.
They stopped that woman from peeing in a toilet.
Good job. The children are safe.
From her.
Not from school shooters tho. They are still in terrible danger from them.
But at least they won’t have to deal with that woman using the wrong bathroom.
Well it’s illegal to shoot up schools too but people still do it. I guess laws really don’t matter anymore.
I mean… just look at the president. He does whatever the fuck he pleases with no consequences, regardless of how illegal or immoral it is
::tummy grumbles::
::continues to sharpen pitchfork::
Supreme Court made what he does legal, though
Sorry, are you advocating for people to follow bullshit laws like bathroom bans? Because that’s how your comment reads.
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When I was a younger man and lived on the road I exclusively used the women’s restrooms to shit.
They were usually cleaner.
Except for Philly. Philly punkes 20 years ago seriously used to have no rules. Or clean bathrooms.
…using the “wrong” bathroom…
FTFY
Well the toilet is different so of course.
*The right bathroom.
She did this as an act of civil disobedience and let them know in advance she was coming and was going to use the women’s restroom.
But imagine she didn’t. Instead she went to the capitol, and, following the law, used the male restroom. Just look at her. Do you think she wouldn’t have been harassed or possibly arrested for doing so?
In practice, trans bathroom bans work like this:
Use the restroom the law requires you to: get harassed, beat up, and possibly arrested.
Use the restroom that matches your presentation: violate the law, hope no one clocks you, and you don’t get arrested.
I’m a trans woman myself. You wouldn’t know it if you saw me in public. And I don’t even have any ID documents with an “M” on them. If I wanted to obey the Florida bathroom law, I would have to use the men’s restroom. But then when I inevitably caused a scene, I wouldn’t even be able to show an officer that I was just complying with the law.
Trans bathroom bans are ultimately just a means of driving trans people from public life entirely. Comply with the law? Get assaulted by some chud who thinks you’re violating the law. Disobey the law? Risk arrest for actually violating it.
There’s a reason labeling this a genocidal movement is not hyperbole.
Jesus. Breaking the law is genuinely safer for you… What insanity.
Yeah, in practice, I simply refuse to travel to any state with a bathroom ban.
That alone is not the crazy part, though. Of course many laws have edge cases where you should ignore them for practical reasons in rare circumstances. But here, it’s not an edge case. It’s right there in open sight.
It’s funny how everyone forgets trans men.
My state has had a bathroom bill for K-12 schools. Every day I went to work I committed a misdemeanor that could have cost my school funding and sent me to jail.
I’ve been told that I can be comforted by the fact that trans women are the target - which, yeah, they don’t want to kill trans men. They just want to drive us out of public life and force us to either detransition or be dependent on the generosity of cis men.
can I just say as a cis male how weird it is how everyone forgets trans men exist and that everything they say that applies to trans women also applies to trans men. I’m surprised how no one has ever brought up a 14th amendment equal protection clause argument against these laws because clearly the the intent of the laws and the language of these laws was written exclusively for trans women.
We don’t really “exist” in the fucktard framework. Trans women are evil “males” (farenghi voice) who want to peep on ladies in the restroom, because that would somehow be a smarter route to being a sex pest than becoming a youth pastor. Trans men are crazy - we get a status of being perpetual teenage girls. “Tomboys” that are refusing to grow up.
They want to kill or imprison trans women, they want trans men to either be institutionalized or forced into submitting to a cis man (the number of gay trans men with boyfriends that misgender them is fucked up.)
and then there are the opposite cases, where in order to comply with the law, manly masculine men would be forced to use the women’s restrooms.
you know, with women.
especially the easily frightened at everything because they have been societally coddled and protected for the entire history of this country white women.
i don’t know. I’m not ever going to personally deal with that, but I think that if all trans people were going to comply with these idiotic and pointless laws that don’t protect the people they are written to protect the trans women probably would have it easier than trans men. I really don’t see too many men being seriously traumatized seeing a woman in the men’s room (especially when cis females have used men’s rooms with men in them regularly at places like concert venues when the line to the women’s room is long or too far away).
but then again I don’t really give a shit, just flush and wash your hands.
What you people fail to realize is that this will fix the economy, once all trans people are in jail everything is going to be fucking dandy, no more overpriced eggs, no more wagestealing, no more corruption…
Conservative bitches are jealous that Marcy is hotter than all of them.
🙄OMG, let’s turn the tables and ban these conservative trolls from ALL bathrooms! Why should they have the privilege of relieving themselves when they’re relieving us of our basic human rights? They can hold it in until they burst, for all I care. Trump is literally kill ing trans people. What’s next is he gonna TARIFF them as well? 🙄
Trans girls are the true embodiments of womanhood, and these closed-minded fools are just scared of what they don’t understand. Their fear is a pathetic attempt to maintain a fake sense of power. Let’s give them a taste of exclusion and see how they like it.
Everyone else can go bathe in their own bigotry. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
What’s next is he gonna TARIFF them as well?
Hey now, don’t give them any ideas, they might tax the fuck out of HRT drugs
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I got a food truck bazaar near me with only one bathroom with a placard that shows the typical man/woman then a half half, and an alien reading. " Whatever, just wash your hands."
Best break down I’ve ever seen on this dumb ass debate.
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First the extraterrestrials come for our toilets, but then what?? You have to take a stand.
Seriously this. I’ve been to other places that have it figured out (Sweden in my case) and it is better in every possible way.
Well, unless you are a landlord who wants the up-front construction costs of the restrooms to be as cheap as possible regardless of how it will affect the decades of use. Or if you live in a country with no healthcare and can’t let people have privacy in the restroom because you’re afraid they’ll OD in there.
Or if you live in a country with no healthcare and can’t let people have privacy in the restroom because you’re afraid they’ll OD in there.
I don’t even want to look that up. It sounds so real it could be.
Just like removing benches in public spaces to prevent use by homeless people.
That and hostile architecture is why I believe it
What I had in mind while making that comment was past stories of establishments putting blue light bulbs in their bathrooms to make it harder to find veins. :/
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/03/756976676/blue-lights-may-deter-intravenous-drug-use-in-public-spaces
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I’m here, sweden is better in literally every possible way.
Watching the US from this vantage point is like watching 50 great whites start tearing into each other because someone threw blood in the water.
not every location is capable of supporting single user bathrooms. im pretty pro-unisex bathroom anyway
If only there was some kind of “stall” they could put in that would allow multiple people to be in the same restroom and maintain their privacy…
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“The arrest of Marcy Rheintgen is not about safety,” Smith said. “It’s about cruelty, humiliation and the deliberate erosion of human dignity. Transgender people have been using restrooms aligned with their gender for generations without incident. What’s changed is not their presence — it’s a wave of laws designed to intimidate them out of public life.”
It’s not. I’m sure the conservative assholes are delighted by this aspect, but the real goal is to distract the plebs with ragebait non-issues so they don’t get upset at the actual loss of all the rights, benefits, and government services they rely on.
That’s why this gets reported, but not millions on the streets yesterday.
Marcy was absolutely right to protest this bullshit the way she did, but that’s part of the plan. It’s literally win win for conservatives. They draw attention by proposing, and enacting a bullshit law that fuels hate, the affected people go out and protest it, and draw attention to it. And in the process, fueling hate through no deliberate means. People on the fence will fall one direction or the other over this, and will always do, every time something like this happens.
It’s both. They’re not pretending to be bigots.
Trans activists are going about this all wrong. Instead of sending someone like Marcy in to violate the law, they need to do this:
Send in the biggest, burliest, hairiest ftm trans dudes into busy ladies rooms, the room that the state insists he must now legally use. And record the reaction of the women and girls leaving for broadcast media. Because by focussing on mtf trans in ladies rooms, I really feel the dipshits that make these laws haven’t thought their cunning plans through very fully.
Send in the biggest, burliest, hairiest ftm trans dudes into busy ladies rooms, the room that the state insists he must now legally use.
I mean, that’s what we’ve functionally done. The distinction is that the biggest, burliest, hairiest dude isn’t ftm trans, he’s a fucking cop.
In an exclusive interview with The Advocate, Morton detailed the humiliating and distressing encounter. She said that she had entered the restroom with her ex-girlfriend, who handed her a tampon, when two male deputies stormed in, shining flashlights into the stall and demanding she exit. Morton, still using the toilet, was stunned.
“They were flashing lights on our feet and saying, ‘You have to get out of here. You have to come out. We need to talk to you,’” Morton said. “I’m telling them, ‘I’m still using the restroom. I’m sitting down, I’m peeing. What is the issue?’”
When she finally exited the stall, she said she lifted her shirt to prove she was not a man, expecting the ordeal to end. Instead, she said one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she “looked like a man.” Morton started recording, later posting a 9-second clip to TikTok, where it has since been viewed more than 3.7 million times. “They came in here in the girls’ restroom because I’m a girl and they didn’t think I was a girl, so they tried to come take me away,” she says in the video.
Like, this is the fucking future. The problem is that - outside of specifically LGBTQ media like The Advocate - it gets virtually no press. Cops terrorizing women in the restroom and demanding that they prove they aren’t Transgender just aren’t something the deeply conservative and heavily Trump-pilled local media oligarchs want appearing on TV.
You get stories like OP’s instead, specifically because they do feed into the “Men are trying to sneak into the women’s room to attack your daughter/wife/girlfriend”
Idk if its any fairer to send trans men in. Plus a pretty girl garners more sympathy.
Realistically trying to make them enforce them with genital inspections is the only thing that will make the public think about the ramifications
Edit: I’m not going to advocate saying this but I think the funniest take would be to say gender restricted bathrooms are part of the gay agenda and if girls and boys can use the same restroom at home they can use them in public.
You gotta understand that they don’t see a pretty girl. What they see is a freak, a pervert, or in my moms words “a demon from the pits of hell”.
Idk andrew tate - who is a freak and sex predator attuned to right wing sentiments- begs to differ.
No. No he doesn’t, he plays to their “boys will be boys” montra
Ah they did say the demons of hell could take a deceivingly pretty appearance 🤔
Even genital inspections aren’t a catch all
I’ve said this before but I really want to hear some stories of trans men using the womens bathroom in these places. Big muscular men with bald heads and beards, barging in pissing everywhere and leaving toilet seats up.
I want to see the meltdown when people find out they’re just following the law. Please trans bros do this for me.
Barge in
Woman runs out screaming to her boyfriend
RIP
[edit mainly for intl readers, this place def has some gun action going on, like anywhere but feels especially dangerous state for this civil rights experiment, as domestic readers will intuitively understand]
Someone needs to start printing up massive numbers of posters with that picture of her face and in large bold lettering: “ARRESTED FOR ENTERING A WOMEN’S RESTROOM”
Plaster that shit all over the state. Let people see just how ridiculous and cruel the law is.
“He was posing as a women for years, just so he could get into ladies rooms to rape our beautiful MAGA women!” -MAGA Nazis.
Why does he need to “pose” as a woman to do that? Every rapist I’ve ever heard of was able to practice their hobby without going trans.
Why are you guys trying to find some logic in this?
Fuck Florida. FUCK Florida.
You know what is so ironic about this? Right wing jackasses were talking about bring oppressed by transpeople and how they would be arrested and jailed for pronoun errors, but in all the years of the laws being in effect there was not a single arrest of such a thing.
But now within barely a few months of their shit being in power they actually do all the shit they accused others of wanting to do. It really was projection all along.
Transfolk are absolutely their next big target after they’re finished removing the immigrants.
And then the gays.
And then their allies.Anti-trans is just the foot in the door.
This keeps me up at night.
Segregated bathrooms were done away with by the civil rights laws of the 1960’s
You know they have no actual reason for this law aside from intimidation, threat, and leverage for the weak minds who need something to be mad at.
If anyone really cared, they would just make the hand-washing area open, and private stalls for people to do their business. No need to have Mens/Womens. Many places I have been to do this, and it just works.
But then again, there really is not a problem to solve, and the “solution” is removing trans people from society and has nothing to do with bathrooms.
Land of the free eh?
