re: #252 The Vicious Babushka

We talk about the feds forcing your daughters to see naked boys.

That’s related to the same stupid lie that killed the Houston equal rights ordinance today.

One of the mayoral candidates, Ben Hall, is campaigning on a “no men in women’s bathrooms or boys in girls’ locker-rooms” platform.

Texas’s lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick - the state’s second-most powerful politician - echoed that stance, while in a sermon, Ed Young, senior pastor at one of the country’s biggest Baptist mega-churches, thumbed through a copy of the ordinance and said it opens up the city “to something that I think is absolutely Godless”.

Proponents of the ordinance point out that sexual assault is, of course, already illegal in any situation, and the city has long had a law that specifically bans entering a restroom of the opposite sex with malicious intent. Nor is there any evidence of transgender people entering bathrooms to commit assault in other cities following the passage of similar laws.

theguardian.com