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LetMyPeopleVote

(154,542 posts) Tue May 18, 2021, 06:31 PM May 2021

Businesses to post signs warning other customers if trans people like me are welcome

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Businesses to post signs *warning* other customers if trans people like me are welcome (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote May 2021 OP

This is sick and cruel leftieNanner May 2021 #1

I see people being targeted as being trans Lars39 May 2021 #3

ACLU Ferrets are Cool May 2021 #2

This law will have a BIG impact on the lives of trans citizens 70sEraVet May 2021 #4

leftieNanner

(15,698 posts)

1. This is sick and cruel

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue May 18, 2021, 06:35 PM

May 2021

Does that mean that if there is no sign, then a trans person should not go in? Even if they don't intend to use the bathroom? Or does it mean that if there is a sign, then non-trans people won't go in?

Sick, Cruel, and Stupid.

Lars39

(26,232 posts)

3. I see people being targeted as being trans

Reply to leftieNanner (Reply #1)

Tue May 18, 2021, 07:21 PM

May 2021

even if they’re not. I see trans being targeted. I see business getting boycotted and torched because they put the signs up. Any way you look at it these signs foster hate.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,957 posts)

2. ACLU

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue May 18, 2021, 06:38 PM

May 2021

This is discrimination in it's most evil form.

70sEraVet

(4,145 posts)

4. This law will have a BIG impact on the lives of trans citizens

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Wed May 19, 2021, 08:38 AM

May 2021

I do hope that there is a big backlash from businesses. The threat of losing MONEY is the only thing that gets through to them.
I'm a Tennessean with a trans grandson that just graduated high school. How does this law affect his employment prospects? After all, the wording of the law implies that it applies to EMPLOYEES as well as customers!

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