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Utah Lawmakers Pass Terrifying Anti-Transgender Bathroom Policing Bill
Yahoo! News ^ | Sat, January 27, 2024 | Christopher Wiggins

Posted on 01/28/2024 12:09:20 PM PST by nickcarraway

In a rapid legislative progression, the Utah House of Representatives has passed HB 257, a contentious bill that, if signed into law by Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, would become the first anti-LGBTQ+ bathroom ban of the year. The bill aims to stop transgender students from using restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity, as well as restrict access to changing rooms in government-owned or operated facilities for transgender people of all ages.

Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson expressed her strong opposition to the bill in a statement.

“This bill is an invasion of the privacy of Utahns,” Robinson said. “No student should be denied access to the bathroom that aligns with who they are. No one should fear harassment in the most private of settings. Period.” Robinson also highlighted the alarming trend of similar bathroom bans being introduced across the United States, reminiscent of North Carolina’s infamous HB2.

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1 posted on 01/28/2024 12:09:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

What if it terrorizes transgender people so much that they avoid going to Utah? I had to change planes in SLC going from Boston to Anchorage! What if I had been transgender had had to pee?


2 posted on 01/28/2024 12:12:23 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: nickcarraway

Article: “who they are”

Lol.

Who are they?


3 posted on 01/28/2024 12:13:55 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: nickcarraway

Terrifying? Quick! Someone get the fainting couch for poor Christopher Wiggins.


4 posted on 01/28/2024 12:16:11 PM PST by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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To: cgbg

Who? More like WHAT are they.


5 posted on 01/28/2024 12:18:29 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Your post reminded me sentences that I had not heard in 40 years:

Bill had had had where Jerry had had had had. Had had had been correct.


6 posted on 01/28/2024 12:19:01 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: nickcarraway

“Terrifying” is MEN in the Girl’s Room.


7 posted on 01/28/2024 12:19:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: nickcarraway
"Terrifying! Contentious!"

A bill that forbids mentally ill males from using the restroom and locker room with your female kin.

Sounds good.

8 posted on 01/28/2024 12:20:37 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: nickcarraway
"No student should be denied access to the bathroom that aligns with who they are."

Exactly, Kelley.

This law codifies that a person shall use the bathroom that aligns with their biology, i.e, SCIENCE.

Forcing another person to affirmatively participate in your delusion will not cure your mental illness.

9 posted on 01/28/2024 12:25:27 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Exactly.


10 posted on 01/28/2024 12:26:01 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway
Kelley Robinson

What a vile, disgusting human. She is the first black, queer woman to lead HRC.

Kelley Robinson (born 1985 or 1986) is an American community organizer who is the current president of the Human Rights Campaign. She was formerly the executive director of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

Education
Robinson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2008. During university, she double-majored in sociology and women's and gender studies. She left college for a while and worked as a mixed martial arts fighter and bartender

Career
Robinson started working as a political organizer for Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, she worked at Planned Parenthood of the Heartland as a regional organizer. From 2011 to 2015, she served as the associate director for youth engagement for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, until she was promoted to national organizing director in 2015. In 2019, she became the executive director of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and vice president of organizing and advocacy. In this role, Robinson helped direct efforts to flip the U.S. Senate in the 2020 elections. While at Planned Parenthood, the number of supporters increased from 6.5 million to 18 million.

As the executive director of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Robinson was interviewed about reproductive rights, the Hyde Amendment, and Supreme Court nominees by several media outlets such as the Associated Press, CNN, The Guardian, and The New York Times.

Robinson became the president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in late 2022. She is the first queer Black woman to lead the organization. Robinson has stated that she will focus on issues such as voting rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, living wages and health care; she will focus on the voices and concerns of impoverished people. In one interview, Robinson stated that HRC was planning to work towards the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act. In one of the first interviews that she gave as HRC president, to El Pais, Robinson addressed the rise of hate acts against LGBTQ communities. In the month of December of the year 2022, Robinson testified before Congress on the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ extremism and violence.

Personal life
Robinson married her wife, Becky George, in 2020; they have one child together. Robinson is Catholic.

11 posted on 01/28/2024 12:26:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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In general, I think the public knows the reality of this cross-dresser stuff but as more stories get out about the opportunistic and even predatory nature of it, from guys getting to break records in female sports to the very revealing statistics coming out about how criminals are suddenly becoming trans just before sentencing for their prison time, then it is going to become almost impossible to maintain this fantasy.


12 posted on 01/28/2024 12:27:06 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Good for Utah, now on to getting Romney to transition to being a conservative.


13 posted on 01/28/2024 12:41:42 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Prayers up for Jim Robinson and family ... an island of sanity in a sea of madness. )
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To: nickcarraway
I am ALL IN on any anti pervert LGBGT+ laws.
14 posted on 01/28/2024 12:43:03 PM PST by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: nickcarraway

OMG!!! How terrifying huh? 😆😆😆


15 posted on 01/28/2024 12:50:58 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: cgbg

Because saying “what they think they are” crushes the whole argument.


16 posted on 01/28/2024 12:53:39 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: nickcarraway

Simple solution to take gender confusion out of the restroom debate.
Replace Men/Women restroom designations with Penis/No Penis signs.


17 posted on 01/28/2024 12:59:14 PM PST by throwthebumsout
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To: Dahoser
Terrifying? Quick! Someone get the fainting couch for poor Christopher Wiggins.

How about an ample supply of butt hurt cream, to go with it.

18 posted on 01/28/2024 1:04:15 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: nickcarraway

Funny how its not an invasion of privacy of everyone else when mentally ill men and women decide to use the wrong bathrooms.

They are just itching to foment revolt from normal people. They really are.


19 posted on 01/28/2024 1:06:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Dahoser
(Terrifying Anti-Transgender Bathroom Policing Bill)

Oh my gosh!!! TERRIFYING!!! 😱😨😱😨😱



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20 posted on 01/28/2024 1:08:03 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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