North Carolina Overturns LGBT-Discrimination Bans

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I feel like I fit nicely into the New Democrat mold,

Honestly that's bad enough as it is even without the bigotry.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Honestly, I don't think there's any coherent way to legislate the [Inks]ing bathroom issue one way or another.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

See that's why we want to ban hormone therapy and prohibit sex change operations from being covered by insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. That way those women don't get to grow beards and still have to use the correct restroom.

Jesus, I don't think I've ever heard even the looniest, most bigoted social conservatives ever call for legislation declaring who is and is not allowed to grow a beard.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Honestly, I don't think there's any coherent way to legislate the [Inks]ing bathroom issue one way or another.

What's the bathroom issue that needs correcting? That is, "one way or another" seems to imply that there's something happening in need of corrective action, but I haven't seen any evidence of this at all.

That's kind of my point, actually. Both attempting to legislatively prohibit or attempting to legislatively actively ensure that trans people can go to the bathroom they want to seem like futile, unenforceable-in-a-sane-society exercises.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I guess the rest of my life I'll be labeled a conservadem.

Don't insult conservadems.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

'Enforcement mechanisms' tend to be absolutely repugnant, invasive, and, frankly, profoundly creepy to most people, though.