This gift keeps on giving…

In my recent blog, I posted about North Carolina and their law banning transgender people from going to their self selected bathroom, forcing them instead to the bathroom of their biological identity. In reaction, many videos have surfaced showing the results of this open display of ignorance at best and sheer discrimination at worst. I would like to review three of them that caught my eye. First video (Linked below), taken in December, (2015?) surfaced showing police demanding identification from a lesbian woman deemed by said police to be not worthy of being female based on her looks, to being allowed into a female bathroom. When she refused, not having any, she is escorted out of the bathroom, insultingly called “Sir” by the police. (Who carried ID to the bathroom?)Now we can see future fall out, women will need to carry and show ID to law enforcement be allowed into bathrooms. Those without will be removed as a danger to society. Luckily, and surprisingly, no lasting damage or assault by the self righteous police officer was done even as they were rough in their handling of her for attempting to illegally pee… Wait, I am sure that there will be forthcoming future assaults. But things get worse.

We turn to our second video, where a black man, who sounded on the video to be foreign, perhaps poor sound quality, made me think he was African? Hence, my use of his racial identity in this description. Specifically, my thought was he sounded foreign? Maybe he is from Uganda; the country that outlawed being Homosexual by putting them to death, and thereby explaining why he was so hyper alert? In any case, this man follows a woman into the bathroom because he felt she was not female enough. So we may see in such a short time, what an accomplishment this new law in South Carolina has done. Not only does it bar transgender from using the bathrooms, but we may now morally discriminate against women born as women, using the women’s bathroom, if we self select that they are not feminine enough for out liking, even to the point where police can now throw them out for such offending individuals and call them “Sir” just to be on the safe side from any potential lawsuit or other legal ramifications if they fail to produce gender identification sufficient to police.

Our last video, to which I will not link; for any publicity might earn him YouTube money, is I would have hoped inspired by bad comedy, long since past any point of being humorous.  A bad joke doing in an attempt to make light of this clearly outrageous law… I seem to recall a similar skit from the Garry Shandling show, “The Larry Sander’s Show”going along the same lines but I could be wrong as it was so long ago. (And one of the actors now plays a transgender person on HBO series.) In any case, a man does a “social experiment” to see just what happens when a male enters a female bathroom, much to amusement of viewers? So wearing a dress, makeup and a wig, cameras rolling, he enters a female bathroom. Only to be told to leave repeatedly by different women, even as he explained that he was transgender and just trying to use the washroom. One can see the comedy potential here right? The thing I forgot to mention? He had a full beard, a face full of facial hair. Haw haw, yuck yuck. Clearly this is comedy right? The saddest part of all? Is that this is not the comedy channel but a serious political commentary. This guy actually thinks this is his exposing the transgender “lies” for what they are. Showing the justification for such a law and why it is needed. As if a man transiting to female would not shave, or a female transiting to male would wear wigs, dresses and makeup with a beard. Yet this is the level of sophistication for the supporter of the anti transgender bathroom law from North Carolina. Is it any wonder why this law gives rise to a new level of hatred toward anyone differing from normative values of self imposed white male politicians? This law not only allows for open discrimination against Trans people, it now allows for misogyny to show open contempt for women and misogynists be openly critical or women’s dress habits, even up to police intervention. Recall in the first video, how the police called the lady “Sir” to further humiliate and demean her and her sex. She is not following their normative in wear, or makeup and thus must harassed, humiliated and treated like a criminal, all for going to the bathroom. This is the real legacy of North Carolina. Congratulations; this is surely something to be proud of! In one foul (sic) swoop, not only do they demean a minority group, they put all women on notice, there is now a bathroom dress code. And the Police are now ready to enforce it. But they now have opened the door to outright hostility towards anyone not living up to the expectations of what a woman should wear and look like.

 

Lesbian evicted from bathroom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVuHAS2CtUM

Women’s Bathroom Patrolled by man