Another thing worth noting is you're always free to move to another state that might be more sympathetic to your cause, that's why we have power of the state.
Have you tried moving to another state before? It's easy* enough for those in middle and higher-income brackets, but economically unfeasible for many folks in lower incomes, unless they have a job that permits changing residency
without losing that job. Oh crap, we moved to a state that then created their own pointless bathroom bill. Why don't I just buy stock in Mayflower and Atlas Van Lines, while I'm at it?
That's not really a good enough answer - the point is that there's no real reason for this law - it seems like a petty distraction rustled up by ultra-conservatives which wasn't a problem to
them in the first place. Politicians look like they're doing something with their time, because even under the disguise of "smaller/less government", they still have to justify their jobs.
Oh, think of the children! What bug-addled parent lets their 5-year-old use a restroom alone? And of course, the so-called pedophiles are going to suddenly hang out in bathrooms instead of their clapped-out white Vanduras for a change. What galls me is that the same people who don't want their gun rights taken away because "the bad guys will still have guns", aren't prepared to make the same clause substituted for another situation which doesn't truly interfere them; this law does nothing to assist but creates a pointless barrier.
And what shall be the burden of proof...a
birth certificate. Unless you've just recently taken possession of a driver's license, passport, social security card, or marriage license, nobody keeps that on their person, because it goes in a goddamned safe. The magic birth certificate won't be let out into the open for another 10 years**, so you don't get your identity stolen. So unless the accuser is going to haul the scofflaw to the potty police and demand an open unzipping ceremony (oh dear, that stupid Constitution!) there's no way this can even truly be enforced unless someone turns themselves in.
Somehow, folks are fearing vulnerability because they have to share a sink, not a stall, with someone who also wants to wash their hands. It's those who have seriously uncomfortable feelings about which restroom to use that shouldn't be interfered with - it isn't a special or additional "right" - it's because they have a very basic and primary
need to use the restroom like all bipeds before they 🤬 or 🤬 on the floor, for :censored:s sake, which is far more embarrassing and disgusting than just about anything else, short of having a piano fall on your head.
* still a pain in the back, legs, arse and a massive drain on time.
** maybe sooner if the Lizard People are claiming dual Kenyan-Hawaiian descent.
