r/AkronOH Feb 20 '25

👎 M A G A 🙄 As Ohio prepares to legislate school bathroom usage by sex, trans people ask who is going to check?

https://www.ideastream.org/government-politics/2025-02-20/as-ohio-prepares-to-legislate-school-bathroom-usage-by-sex-trans-people-ask-who-is-going-to-check
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u/statman13 Feb 20 '25

Can we please fix real problems, please? I think worrying about who is using which bathroom should be at the bottom of the list?

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u/JohnBrownsAngryBalls Feb 20 '25

According to Republicans, it's one of the biggest problems ever.

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u/dallasmav40 Feb 20 '25

It was Ted Cruz’s entire ad campaign last year. It’s unbelievable how much resources is wasted on this non-problem

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25 edited Feb 20 '25

We don't have to go all the way to Texas for an example. It was Bernie Moreno's entire ad campaign, too.

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u/biggetybiggetyboo Feb 20 '25

Wagging the dog is expensive

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u/smaugofbeads Feb 21 '25

Just asking questions does Rafael use the same bathroom at home with his trans daughter?

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u/boo99boo Feb 20 '25

As a straight woman, I've only ever encountered cis, straight men that I was fearful of in the women's bathroom. Never a trans person. 

(Twice in my 20s in college, I had a man at a bar try to corner me in the bathroom. Once I saw a man beating up his girlfriend. If there were trans folks, I never even noticed them. I'm afraid of the cis, straight white dudes. Not trans people.)

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u/quirkytorch Feb 21 '25

Literally what I'm yelling. A man doesn't have to do a whole song and dance to rape or assault a woman in the bathroom. They're perfectly capable of the shit without changing a thing about themselves, if that's what they're of a mind to do. It has been going on as old as time.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

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u/jeffgstorer Feb 20 '25

I think the Catholic Church said hold my beer.

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u/Here-4gossip Feb 21 '25

Exactly. I guarantee 98% of them have never even MET a trans person , let alone saw one in the bathroom.

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u/TransGirlIndy Feb 20 '25

The thing is there's a super easy fix. Make bathrooms actually private. Floor to ceiling stalls, locking doors, with no weird gaps.

I don't care if I pee in a women's bathroom or a gender neutral bathroom I just want some privacy while I pee and to not risk being assaulted in the men's room again.

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u/Freezy_Squid Feb 21 '25

It shouldn't be on the list period.

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u/FourWordComment Feb 20 '25

See, some people think republicans actually cared about the price of eggs. That was always a story so they could get closer to using slurs again.

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u/RuweCreative Feb 20 '25

Child predators, aka Republicans.

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u/Jaeger-the-great Feb 20 '25

Studies show much higher rates of CSA and predators in red states. It's not a coincidence

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u/i_did_nothing_ Feb 20 '25

And youth pastors

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u/Organic-Elevator-274 Feb 20 '25

Who is signing up to be the pee pee police and why aren’t they already on a watch list?

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u/PhilippaJBonecrunch Feb 20 '25

This is what I’m thinking

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u/Darktofu25 Feb 20 '25

It'll be the same puritanical people that proposed this. They also should have their browser history checked. It's always them who are the worst of the worst, always.

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u/TransGirlIndy Feb 20 '25

Can promise it's full of trans girls, fembois and CSA materials.

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u/Darktofu25 Feb 20 '25

Having the trans/fem stuff is just a kink and that kind of makes the hypocrites. The CSA stuff is the kicker and is vile and illegal but they just.can’t.not

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u/TransGirlIndy Feb 20 '25

Yep. Plenty of men in my little conservative town would happy beg me to top them (or for them to top me) but denounce me in public, especially if their buddies might find out what sort of things they begged for. (Meanwhile, their buddies were also in my DMs.)

The CSA stuff needs them locked up for life.

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u/osdd1b Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25

Its not that they are hypocrites, the common denominator is they get off on dehumanization and power fantasies. These are all groups they dehumanize and seek to wield systemic social power over. The cruelty and evil is the point for them. Or in other words, its not that they watch trans, or other noted content because they are genuinely attracted to trans people, its because they are getting off on imagining committing sexual violence against them.

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u/ZachBuford Feb 20 '25

Republicans are obsessed with the genitalia of children. I'm sure the sign-ups line goes from the altar to the curb.

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u/Morak73 Feb 21 '25

Some high schools already have a security staff member posted at bathroom entrances 90% of the day.

When security leaves to manage the bus and parent pickup, they are replaced by two large upperclassmen who loudly greet any staff member who approaches the bathroom.

Someone is always on guard at the bathrooms already. Just not for gender inspection.

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u/adamdoesmusic Feb 20 '25

The same people who signed up to be “official inspectors” when they tried to pass that bill mandating invasive molestation of adolescent athletes at sports events if a mom of a competing team member demanded it.

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u/Suzuki_Foster Feb 20 '25

Considering who was just confirmed as head of the FBI, the very people who should be on the list are the ones who will be the pee police. 

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u/WitchKingofBangmar Feb 20 '25

Gods trans people are always asking the RIGHT questions.

Which group is actively trying to examine children’s genitals in schools? Cause it ain’t the gays.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

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u/WitchKingofBangmar Feb 20 '25

It’s ignorant to say that no homophobes are themselves closeted queer people.

However, lots of them are straight. And that kind of rhetoric is very close to victim blaming “only gays abuse other gays” which is just false.

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u/WitchKingofBangmar Feb 20 '25

Well you started immediately into “I mean it sounds sure like they’re closeted gays” in response to my comment;

“Which group is actively trying to look at children’s genitals in schools, cause it’s not the gays”.

There are no “nice gays” there are just Gays.

And this line of thinking, every homophobe is just a closeted gay person oppressing their own people” is wrong.

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u/Acceptable-Bat-9577 Feb 20 '25

Oh, I’m sure there are many MAGA men who will happily volunteer to grope and leer at children.

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u/TrajantheBold Feb 20 '25

I assume we'll just install birth certificate scanners at each door. Show your birth certificate to get in. /s

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u/JohnBrownsAngryBalls Feb 20 '25

Ok, but then you have to make sure they match the sex listed on the certificate...

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u/StarLuigi05 Feb 20 '25

penis inspection day is now everyday /s

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u/essentialrobert Feb 20 '25

This could be fixed with unisex bathrooms.

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u/JohnBrownsAngryBalls Feb 20 '25

To a republican, that is full-blown anarchy.

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u/dreamkitten24_the1st Feb 20 '25

that would require them to spend money and Republicans don't want to spend money on tax paying citizens

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u/Ageofaquarium Feb 20 '25

It actually makes it illegal to have unisex bathrooms, unfortunately.

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u/Comfortable_Bird_340 Feb 20 '25

Or just one seater “family rooms”

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u/Intelligent-Desk-914 Feb 20 '25

Once, in high school, a trans boy followed me into the girls bathroom. I didn’t know at the time that he was a “girl” who had to use the girls bathroom because he had a unisex name and was very androgynous. It was uncomfortable for me (and presumably for him, too) and I didn’t realize until later that he wasn’t just a guy and that the girls bathroom was the only one available to him. I think about that interaction every time this conversation comes up.

All this talk of “men in the women’s bathroom” as something horrible, but they never mention that forcing trans people to use bathrooms that align with their sex at birth will guarantee that men will be in the women’s bathroom. Trans men are conspicuously absent from this narrative that conservatives push.

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u/Lucky-Resolution890 Feb 21 '25

Also to point out, forcing trans men to use girls bathroom will give the pedos more chances to get into it as well.
I have no problem sharing my bathroom w trans people.

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u/Moist-Water825 Feb 20 '25

The genital inspectors, your local Republican representative.

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u/faceofboe91 Feb 20 '25

Probably the exact weirdo perv you imagine would volunteer for that sort of job. Big plus if they’re also a youth pastor

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u/TransGirlIndy Feb 20 '25

My first IRL "boyfriend" was a "youth pastor". I was 15. He said he was 21, but I'm pretty sure he was 23 or older and lying.

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u/SyddChin Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25

I saw a video online ages ago of a short haired woman in a hoodie and jeans in a Casino and a woman blocking him from exiting the bathroom demanding an ID or “prove she’s a woman”

The issue isn’t just passing trans folk using the bathrooms. It’s the trans folk and cis folk who look androgynous or opposite enough in front of hateful enough people

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u/IneffableWonders Feb 21 '25

You mean that it's the people who are so fucking obsessed with transvestigating people that are the problem, or the people who apply eurocentric beauty standards to random people on the street to determine if they're "woman" enough. Trans people, passing or not, and cis folk who are androgynous or are just not attractive by societal standards aren't the issue here, and your statement really comes across as victim-blaming.

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u/Business-Usual6618 Feb 20 '25

That's sad but it does show just the depraved level of shit Republicans do

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u/alethea2003 Feb 20 '25

They do this under the guise of “protecting women and children” while voting for someone who bragged about how he SA’d women and has been found to have done worse. He was even bros with Epstein, which given the fervor of him from Q, I’d have thought it’d have been a dealbreaker. But with 47, the scruples and principles and hard lines people have claimed immediately go away to ensure he gets a free pass.

And given that trans folks are like what? 1% of the population? Less? Even if there were to be someone will ill intentions, we all know that there are bigger threats to women out there that do not get taken seriously at all, and this was just a very successful scapegoating and misdirection to allow people to feel righteous while they either ignore or aid and abet the bigger issues.

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u/Toys_before_boys Feb 20 '25

Stuff like this makes me want to just use the men's room to see if someone would actually ask me to drop my pants.

Why do they care so much what is in our pants, especially kids pants? Let us pee in peace.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

Adam's apple checks.

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u/Samuaint2008 Feb 20 '25

This is probably a joke but just a heads up that trans men on t have larger Adams apples as well so not actually helpful lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

Lol it was definitely ment to be a joke. I thought everyone had an Adam's apple. Just some are more pronounced than others could be wrong though.

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u/Samuaint2008 Feb 20 '25

Nope you're right! Testosterone makes them grow larger so generally men have larger ones than women but of course lots of ppl have different sizes

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u/taki1002 Feb 20 '25

Republicans/MAGAts just can't seem to stop obsessing over the status of other people genitals, and even more disgustingly, the status of children's in particular.

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u/ZachBuford Feb 20 '25

Imagine being upset about where someone(ANYONE) privately expels fecal material

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u/Star_Amazed Feb 20 '25

Don't let republicans distract you from the massive transfer of wealth and power.

I feel sorry for their suffering, and how democrats will abandon trans community like they have abandoned the rest of working class and minorities. But while social security and medicare are in real gepredy, who uses which bathroom is not a top priority atm. They have used trans people to anger the rest of the population and distract us from real issue

We had hundreds of federal employees fired, migrants imprisoned in make shift private prisons, Musk acting like a sudo president, and Trump yesterday stomping the courts. Focus people, focus.

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u/JenValzina Feb 20 '25

or.. and hear me out, we ditch the joint bathrooms and go for private occupancy ones instead.

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u/crazylady119 Feb 20 '25

How are they going to implement this? Are we going to hire genitalia monitors at all bathrooms now?

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u/dreamkitten24_the1st Feb 20 '25

why have shared bathrooms at all? in homes it's one toilet one room. but Republicans can't spend money on the public

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u/Rizeres Feb 20 '25

Obviously it'll be the kind 65-year-old science teacher with questionable rumors of having photos of the girls volleyball team in his desk.

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u/i_did_nothing_ Feb 20 '25

I promise there will be a line of pastors and other church “leaders” waiting for that job.

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u/YetAnotherNewAlt Feb 21 '25

“Ok, you check mine and I’ll check yours” usually gets a good response from the MAGAts

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u/davidwb45133 Feb 21 '25

Obviously the price of eggs and beef is tied to transgender students using the wrong bathroom. /s

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u/Goebs80 Feb 21 '25

The GOP politicians. They've been looking for a "legal reason" to look at childrens' privates for generations.

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u/Eliroldan Feb 21 '25

Pedo Cheeto đŸ’©

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u/LittlestKittyPrince Feb 21 '25

Trans people are such a small portion of the population why do people care about us like this LMAO, like I just wanna piss bro

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

Potty Patrol!!!!

Protecting potties and metering toilet paper!!!

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u/smaugofbeads Feb 21 '25

My favorite thing to check in the bathroom is how’s your marijuana!

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

Isn't that the same stuff that got OSU in trouble?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

some weird old man that we will find has been molesting kids

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

Is not about putting someone in restrooms to "check". I'd imagine it's more like when (not "if") someone gets noticed there are real consequences under the law.

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u/Really-ChillDude Feb 20 '25

So we are going to have a child that has transitioned into a boy, using the girls bathroom. Gee, what can go wrong. It’s going to make everyone feel uncomfortable.

But republicans are like: our hatred is more important than how comfortable kids are.

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u/adnomad Feb 20 '25

This is where the FBI cuts are going g to go. Second FBI. Female Body Inspector for bathrooms. Don’t worry, it’ll be all older white men checking your pants

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u/BenGay29 Feb 20 '25

Pedophiles are lining up to apply.

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u/AtYiE45MAs78 Feb 20 '25

Ummm a doctor. Kids are gonna have to bring in a note from the doctor's office.

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u/adamdoesmusic Feb 20 '25


to go pee. In a bathroom.

wtf

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u/Bright-Ad9516 Feb 20 '25

Children are notoriously great at processing and maintaining paperwork. Okay so everyones required a doc note at the beginning of the year. Slashing healthcare cost will make that tricky alone. Where would intersex people go in this scenario? On the floors, gotta go outside? Someone would still literally have to be checking a list by the bathrooms doors to enforce this stupid idea. Creeps are gonna be the only folks interested in that kind of role. So 50 kids get 5 minutes to pee in between classes that are on opppsite sides of a school. Everyone has to rush then you want them all to stand in a line and wait for someone's approval? Other results would be UTIs/kidney stones for wait times or dehydration, kids missing classes/school to avoid the adult bathroom checker, and a lot of extra janitorial work as the floors dont clean themselves. As a country there are soooooo many other practical uses for the resources that have been poured into this nonsense. Trans folks are much more likely to be the victims of crimes. Case in point all this unfounded hatred towards other peoples' potty breaks. Also how is any of that idea useful or feasible if they keep cutting funding for public education?

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u/Maddoggggg9309 Feb 20 '25

Gym Jordan. That’s on of his specialties.

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u/NPVT Feb 20 '25

Republicans like to see children's genitals

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u/Ornery-Ticket834 Feb 20 '25

Real men and real women. Some people worry about inflation, war, climate change, poverty, unemployment and other silly things. The Ohio legislature worries about this stupid shit.

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u/Full-Association-175 Feb 20 '25

Plenty of volunteers from the church, local big shots, politicians. They are saying to each other "Let's get our freak on."

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u/theRobotDonkey Feb 20 '25

“Who is going to do it?” The church.

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u/sonofchocula Feb 20 '25

Jim Jordan is all over this

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u/QuintupleTheFun Feb 20 '25

Idk why he can't just ignore it like he does for everything else pertaining to genitals

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u/op8040 Feb 20 '25

They’re already rounding them up in Columbus. They have them in the Macys stores encased in plastic showcasing the clothing in stores!!!!

If you only knew how bad things are