At the moment it is just a bill Alabama is straining to pass.

SS, short for “Sharia Staffel”.

That is why my grandma paid for me to take the auto train through the south when I moved from MD to FL (I had NY plates on my car). I’m not trams, but she didn’t want me driving alone through the South. I know you don’t go through AL on that trip, but she was generalizing.

What total ridiculousness. I don’t get it. It’s so offensive. If you want a cop around for safety that’s fine. You certainly don’t need a new law and you don’t need to know someone’s gender to keep the peace. So, to me, this sort of shit is a total waste of time and proves part of that party really worry about the stupidest things. It also shows those politicians want to distract the public away from other things I think.

Didn’t Trump recently tell republicans to stop focusing on bullshit? I don’t remember what he was referring to.

I googled it and I didn’t read it yet but this is what I found:

https://legiscan.com/AL/bill/SB1/2017

Even Alabama, home of some pretty stupid legislators and politicians, can’t be this stupid.

But if that law passes, it may very well come to be true. Suppose there is a crotch police. How would they ensure that the police force wasn’t made up of perverts and sexual predators? And what a horrible job that would be, looking at mens and womens abdomens all day. It would take intestinal fortitude.

Yeah, FB is a great news source. What do you even read that shit for? It’s the net equivalent of the National Inquirer.

According to the bill (thanks @jca) it gives anyone or any business that provides a restroom, shower, changing facility, etc., that is used by the public three options: provide a private facility that can only be used by one person at a time; provide a facility that can be used by multiple individuals but only of the same sex; provide a facility that can be used by multiple individuals irrespective of their gender but such a facility has to have, using on of @Pandora‘s suggested terms, a ‘Creeper Cop” stationed at the door to ensure there is no hanky panky in the facility and to answer any questions or concerns of individuals who may want to use it.

Maybe this is just another example of the Republican effort to bring jobs back to the US (although it is a pretty safe bet that they will end up hiring immigrants for the position).

There is another option that it doesn’t mention (probably covered by other laws) and that is simply eliminating the public option and making the facility for employees only.

@rojo As far as I know restaurants must provide bathrooms.

The news said this morning that, thanks to “Mullah” Patrick, our illustrious Lt. Gov. here in the Lone Star State, Texas is going to pursue a bathroom bill similar in scope to that of the utter failure, HB-2, that North Carolina passed.
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@Espiritus_Corvus I agree FB is the equivalent of the National Enquirer.

Private Dicks.

Snopes. Yep, it’s true. They passed a bill making it illegal. However, I suspect someone was reaching if they suggested that checking crotches would become a thing.

Ha ha @Filmfan!!

@rojo That sounds like it’s not crotch inspections but just hanky panky patrol.

I find it hard to believe anyone seriously thinks this is a problem that needs law… oh wait, sadly I do believe it. I just want them all to stay in Arkansas, and never to go to Arkansas.

Apparently the law reads that if someone makes you uncomfortable you call the police, and the police have to “witness” the crime. WTF? Don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sure I could be done peeing and long gone by the time the police got there.

@rojo maybe they don’t want all the sports events to move to Texas, or businesses that left or are leaving North Carolina.

Just saying!

If you read and understood your own link – and if that link is factual – then it would appear that this is a “proposed thing”, so, no “not real” – yet. I’m assuming that you know the difference between “real” and “proposed”.

No, it passed. In late March 2016, lawmakers in North Carolina passed the sweeping HB2 (also known as the “bathroom bill”), which nullified a Charlotte ordinance affording protections to gay and transgender residents. here.

Alabama has not yet ceded or subcontracted its lawmaking capacity to North Carolina or any other state. It has not passed, according to the link, in Alabama.

OIC. But they passed the law in Oxford Alabama.

The bathroom bills only work if we guard public bathrooms, and allow entrance only with an original birth certificate with gender matching what’s in your pants.

If this isn’t done, the legislation is meaningless.

I say we form militias to enforce the law, starting in the state capital buildings where these laws are passed.

@filmfann Beautiful. That was perfect.
@Espiritus_Corvus This is why I asked on here. I tried to find other links but was not successful.
@CWOTUS I do know the difference between real and unreal. What I meant is this really happening. Are they really proposing such a law. I was hoping it was a joke.
@Dutchess_lll I was the one reaching. I just don’t see how they were going to determine if a guy in drag (many who look better than actual women) was indeed a woman. I mean do you do random checks, or do you eye ball someone you think may be a man and then ask for ID? It just all seems a little pervy to me.

How many of you carry around your birth certificate with you? I sure don’t. I could probably find it if you give me an hour. But it’s in a desk drawer somewhere.

How would the crotch checker work? Would you need to unzip and display? Or would the checker be allowed to feel you up to be sure?

@elbanditoroso Exactly. How would this work. There is no law stating you must walk around with ID at all times. So how do they determine if you get to use a public rest room or not.

Interesting. My mom always made me feel like it was a law. Lol. Her real schtick was if God forbid something happens to you you should have ID on you so you aren’t a Jane Doe.

i wonder with laws like this, or what AZ tried to do regarding immigration, if you don’t have ID then what do they do? Arrest you?

@JLeslie the scary thing is they hold you Incommunicado for 48 hours “just because”.

@JLeslie I rarely carry my Id when I walk my dog. Unless I am feeling poorly and the weather is lousy. I get annoyed at having to carry my house keys. I do carry a small paper with my husbands name and number just in case. But not my ID. Too often I have gotten in my car to drive away and realized I left my ID in my jacket pocket or pants pocket. So as a rule, it only stays in my wallet, that is too big for my pockets.

^^I think contact information is enough. At least as far as my mom is concerned. Lol. Lanyard around your neck is the easiest in my opinion.

I have a suggestion about the house keys, because I hate carrying keys too, but I lock everything. Consider getting a combination lock for your front door or a back or garage door if you have one. I think they run about $120 now.

@Tropical_Willie Is that leigal? 48 hours? Or, are you kidding?

I don’t believe that the laws anywhere are that you can be held for 48 hours just for not having ID.

Ohio statues
“There is one exception to your right to silence: According to Ohio law since April 2006, if you are in a public place and under certain circumstances, you must give your name, address and date of birth to an officer. If you fail to provide this information under such circumstances, you will be committing a fourth-degree misdemeanor and may be arrested.”

There maybe others.

My drivers license does not show the sex I had at birth.

If the crotch watchers are going to checking and comparing to what is on a birth certificate, wouldn’t it stand to reason that we would all need to carry our birth certificates around?

@Tropical_Willie: Oh ok I see. I thought you meant you could be held for not carrying ID.

wouldn’t it stand to reason that we would all need to carry our birth certificates around?

Yes.

And wherever possible we need to start demanding papers from white, hetero-looking people to prove their gender and citizenship.

Equal protection. Conservatives pretend the Constitution is important to them. Let’s hold them to their rhetoric.

Even if they carry their birth certificates around, who’s going to check them? And further more, how insulted would people be if others couldn’t tell by looking at them if they were male or female, when they were BORN male or female? It’s kind of like asking an overweight female they’re due. Insulting.

It was really a ridiculous time waster for the law makers.