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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTennessee's transgender bathroom law has penalties, its sponsor reveals
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/tennessees-transgender-bathroom-law-penalties-sponsor-reveals-rcna1059The penalty, which wasn't mentioned during hearings and debate, could mean jail time for business owners who let trans people use the bathroom of their choice.
May 28, 2021, 9:02 AM CDT
By The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. The sponsor of Tennessees new law requiring businesses and government facilities to post signs if they let transgender people use the bathrooms of their choice now says owners and officials who refuse could face up to six months in jail a penalty that went unmentioned during legislative hearings and debate.
The question of who would do the enforcing remains murky as well.
Republican Rep. Tim Rudd, who sponsored the bathroom sign bill, said a class B misdemeanor could apply to those who wont post the signs within 30 days of being warned theyre breaking the law. That seems to contradict what Rudd told fellow lawmakers in March. He said then that the bill version that would become law does not provide any fines or penalties at this point.
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Diamond_Dog
(32,024 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)The fuck if I'd ever drive through your shithole state. I'll drive around it if I gotta protect myself from your transphobic, fascist laws
Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)bc his Wingnuttiest hateful shit didnt get passed in the regular session. A bathroom bill was his priority. Voter suppression and constitutional carry for drumph humping magats wasnt enough. A special level of shitbird.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)I'll be looking for ways to leave the state. I'm not about to risk my life because the fascists here wanna make it hell for me
Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)I'd probably leave to New Mexico or Colorado. I don't feel safe anymore here
Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)Enough!!
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Seriously
Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)Initech
(100,089 posts)hurple
(1,306 posts)I bet that would go over real well...
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Oneironaut
(5,512 posts)I get the point, but in case you didn't know: RuPaul isn't trans, and Male drag queens usually identify as Male.
hurple
(1,306 posts)Just trying to use the most public figure I could think of to make the point.
Mr.Bill
(24,311 posts)is required by law to use the same bathroom as a 12 year old girl?
hurple
(1,306 posts)I forgot chas bono even existed. 😂
Good choice.
MineralMan
(146,320 posts)Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)I am fortunate to have found the most progressive, ethical, humane employer I have ever worked for. I didn't find that in the other three liberal, progressive states I have previously lived in (MN was one of them, sir). I'm on a blue island in a sea of red these days.
I'll do my part and keep voting for and promoting sane candidates here. And I won't quit until we overturn this "law". Not every part of Tennessee is batshit crazy.