Well this is quite odd timing

So last week(in a rare special Friday night into Saturday morning session)Connecticut just passed a law banning discrimination on the basis of "gender identity" (sounds kinda vague don't you think) that it's opponents named "the bathroom bill". Opponents of the bill, in an attempt to defeat it entirely or at least secure an amendment that would except bathrooms and dressing rooms (which are excepted in older version of CT's anti-discrimination laws) claimed that under this law a man could claim to be "transgendered" and enter a woman's bathroom in order to peep (or even sexually assault a woman). Supporters of the bill claimed this was unlikely and a "scare tactic".

Well guess what, four days after the bill passed the Senate (it had already passed the House weeks before), a transgendered person got arrestedwas tried in court for sexually assaulting a minor under the age of 16 (with special needs besides) in a men's bathroom. Even weirder, this incident occured in Stamford, the Hometown of Governor Malloy who heavily lobbied for this bill. It's also weird in that even the newspaper story is unsure about the offenders gender: at one part it says "Isaiah Johnson, 20, of Stamford, Conn., was charged with second-degree sexual assault with someone under 16 and is being held in lieu of $25,000 bond after his arrest on Tuesday, June 7, 2011."

Yet at another point it says :

" a city transgender person was arrested early Wednesday morning after police say she sexually assaulted a teenage boy at Stamford Town Center in April. "

The Whole thing is very strange.

I feel for the child and child's family but I'm laughing at their local government for being such idiots. I feel that if you were born a man or woman, then that's the restroom that you should go to, but hey, that's just me.

Wait...so is this a guy or a girl?

Wait...so is this a guy or a girl?

Blue-Sky

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Wait...so is this a guy or a girl?

lowkey254

Ok, so he entered the man's bathroom....whats the deal?

Erm, the transgender person was in the bathroom of her sex (men's bathroom). Either you're trying to link transgender identity with sexual molestation (if so, then :lol: to you) or you're trying to blame a law for something it has absolutely nothing to do with (if so then :lol: to you).Theokhoth

That's what I'm confused about.

I don't see the correlation between this law and sexual assualt. I mean someone wants to sexually assault a minor, whether or not they can enter a certain bathroom isn't going to make a difference. Any body regardless of sexual orientation, can go into any bathroom and sexually assualt someone. Whether or not this law was in affect.

I feel for the child and child's family but I'm laughing at their local government for being such idiots. I feel that if you were born a man or woman, then that's the restroom that you should go to, but hey, that's just me.

lowkey254

This bill did barely make it through the state senate though the vote was 20-16 (meaning it passed by 3 votes) because every Republican Senator and two Democrat senators voted no.

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[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Wait...so is this a guy or a girl?

Blue-Sky

Ok, so he entered the man's bathroom....whats the deal?

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Wait...so is this a guy or a girl?

lowkey254

[QUOTE="lowkey254"]

I feel for the child and child's family but I'm laughing at their local government for being such idiots. I feel that if you were born a man or woman, then that's the restroom that you should go to, but hey, that's just me.

whipassmt

This bill did barely make it through the state senate though the vote was 20-16 (meaning it passed by 3 votes) because every Republican Senator and two Democrat senators voted no.

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[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Wait...so is this a guy or a girl?

Blue-Sky

Ok, so he entered the man's bathroom....whats the deal?

The question now becomes does this person go to th men's prison or the ladies' prison?

[QUOTE="lowkey254"]

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Wait...so is this a guy or a girl?

whipassmt

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[QUOTE="lowkey254"]

I feel for the child and child's family but I'm laughing at their local government for being such idiots. I feel that if you were born a man or woman, then that's the restroom that you should go to, but hey, that's just me.

Theokhoth

This bill did barely make it through the state senate though the vote was 20-16 (meaning it passed by 3 votes) because every Republican Senator and two Democrat senators voted no.

It should be noted that the CT Catholic Public Affairs Conference originally took no position on the bill, provided that religious organizations were exempted from it, however the Conference then decided to intervene in the last few weeks by supporting an amendment to exempt bathrooms and dressing rooms and such from the bill.

The relevance of this story to the bill is that the bill enables "transgender" folk to essentially pick and choose which bathrooms they want to use. The law itself is woefully vague.

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

[QUOTE="lowkey254"] that's a guy.

whipassmt

Ok, so he entered the man's bathroom....whats the deal?

The question now becomes does this person go to th men's prison or the ladies' prison?

[QUOTE="whipassmt"]

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Ok, so he entered the man's bathroom....whats the deal?

lowkey254

The question now becomes does this person go to th men's prison or the ladies' prison?

[QUOTE="whipassmt"]

[QUOTE="lowkey254"] that's a guy.

Mafiree

Ah, so once again it's the Democrats passing progressive, useful legislation for the people and the Republicans opposing it. Good to know. :)Theokhoth

Palantas agrees. This law will get trannys out of the men's latrine, which means less waiting in line, clusterf***s around the mirrors, and so forth. Let 'em go make the line outside the women's bathroom longer than it already is. Furthermore, this law makes it easier to perform lewd acts in public restroom stalls: The lady I'm hooking up with is feeling like a man today, and Palantas is feeling a little gay so there should be no problems or awkwardness about her waltzing through the men's bathroom.

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]Ah, so once again it's the Democrats passing progressive, useful legislation for the people and the Republicans opposing it. Good to know. :)Palantas

Palantas agrees. This law will get trannys out of the men's latrine, which means less waiting in line, clusterf***s around the mirrors, and so forth. Let 'em go make the line outside the women's bathroom longer than it already is. Furthermore, this law makes it easier to perform lewd acts in public restroom stalls: The lady I'm hooking up with is feeling like a man today, and Palantas is feeling a little gay so there should be no problems or awkwardness about her waltzing through the men's bathroom.

[QUOTE="whipassmt"]

[QUOTE="lowkey254"]

I feel for the child and child's family but I'm laughing at their local government for being such idiots. I feel that if you were born a man or woman, then that's the restroom that you should go to, but hey, that's just me.

Theokhoth

This bill did barely make it through the state senate though the vote was 20-16 (meaning it passed by 3 votes) because every Republican Senator and two Democrat senators voted no.

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[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]Ah, so once again it's the Democrats passing progressive, useful legislation for the people and the Republicans opposing it. Good to know. :)whipassmt

Palantas agrees. This law will get trannys out of the men's latrine, which means less waiting in line, clusterf***s around the mirrors, and so forth. Let 'em go make the line outside the women's bathroom longer than it already is. Furthermore, this law makes it easier to perform lewd acts in public restroom stalls: The lady I'm hooking up with is feeling like a man today, and Palantas is feeling a little gay so there should be no problems or awkwardness about her waltzing through the men's bathroom.

Let's see...

I agree, and I can find no fault in your reasoning.

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Palantas agrees. This law will get trannys out of the men's latrine, which means less waiting in line, clusterf***s around the mirrors, and so forth. Let 'em go make the line outside the women's bathroom longer than it already is. Furthermore, this law makes it easier to perform lewd acts in public restroom stalls: The lady I'm hooking up with is feeling like a man today, and Palantas is feeling a little gay so there should be no problems or awkwardness about her waltzing through the men's bathroom.

Palantas

Let's see...

I agree, and I can find no fault in your reasoning.

Hey that guy looks like the guy in your avatar. Are those both you? or are they Duke Nukem?

whipassmt

The guy in the full-color picture is me. I am often confused with Duke Nukem when in public, especially after dying my hair blonde and when wearing my 203 grenade bandolier and sidearm in full view. The guy in the blue-color picture is JC Denton, from a videogame called Deus Ex.

[QUOTE="whipassmt"]

Hey that guy looks like the guy in your avatar. Are those both you? or are they Duke Nukem?

Palantas

The guy in the full-color picture is me. I am often confused with Duke Nukem when in public, especially after dying my hair blonde and when wearing my 203 grenade bandolier and sidearm in full view. The guy in the blue-color picture is JC Denton, from a videogame called Deus Ex.

must like that other thread about it i called it(and was laughed at for doing so) but this will do nothing but give way to horny perverts out to sexually assault someone where as before if i see a person walk into the wrong gender bathroom i can correct that person and wont get blasted for being sexists or rascists or whatever the proper word is. of course now that the sexual assaults have begun this will just further make people hate transgenders and transsexuals leading to more hate crimes on an already confused group of people that have a hard enough time fitting into society as it is. the irony of course if i had to guess a liberal came up with this law preaching equality and acceptance and conservatives opposed for the very reasons i just stated by were called crazy and hate mongers. well enjoy it someone was just sexually assaulted because God forbid we set any boundaries and morals on people. but go ahead laugh at me once again OT i know you want to lol.kayoticdreamz

Well technically the offense occured before the law passed.

[QUOTE="whipassmt"]

[QUOTE="lowkey254"] that's a guy.

Mafiree

:lol:

Tip of the hat to you, sir.

Wait...so is this a guy or a girl?

Blue-Sky

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Wait...so is this a guy or a girl?

markop2003