More toilet hysteria.
A manufactured panic about trans people using the toilets they feel safest in, making them (and any other gender non-conforming individual) unsafe regardless of which choice they make, also makes it unsafe for parents to take their young or disabled children to the toilet if the child happens to be a different sex from the parent.
We need to bury these establishments in costly litigation that force these laws to be repealed. Ridiculous people.
The disability makes this an easy case for this plaintiff, I think New Jersey considers gender identity a protected class also. Manager was an idiot, likely soon unemployed.
“We can always tell!”
They can’t, but that’s not a flaw: the stated aim is to terrify and harass trans people out of public venues, but the side effects, of policing ANY behavior or presentation that is outside of cultural norms - autistic people, short haired women, effeminate men - the point is to use cruelty to enforce homogeneity.
Ehhhh… I wouldn’t say over nothing. Germany was in crisis following The Great War. Were Nazis assholes and monsters and did they prey on bullshit fears of others? Yeah, definitely. But also, their society was falling apart due to massive inflation and street fights and the like.
I’m not apologizing for anyone or anything. Only pointing out that post-WWI Germany was completely fucked up.
Exactly, this is the point. They want to scare trans people back into hiding.
Renovate your business and put a bunch of single person bathrooms if you care so much about anyone who may or may not be trans being in your presence in the bathroom. Otherwise shut the fuck up and let people pee in peace
I think unisex bathrooms would be fine too. Just have stalls you can’t peep through and you’re golden. Gender separated bathrooms make no sense anyways.
Even with stalls you can peep through I’ve never had anyone creeping on me in the bathroom, except kids
Kids are the real menace here, not trans people
Outlaw children from public places? Anyone else seeing a lot of upside there?
Maybe once the lawsuit has settled and the kid’s family owns the movie theater, they can make it over specifically for kids with autism.
I’m not sure what a movie theater designed for the neurodivergent would be, but I’d be interested in finding out.
They already have a solution, family bathrooms. And staff who don’t yell at you for using them.
But really this is disgusting behavior on the staffs part. Shame on those who escalated the situation unnecessarily.
No, I meant a theater in general. The person I responded to said a movie theater for autistic people. I’m sure there are plenty of accommodations that could be made to a standard movie theater to make it a more pleasant experience for the neurodivergent.
A local AMC near me used to have specific screenings for people with autism where the lights were turned up a bit so it wasn’t completely dark, the sound wasn’t turned up as loud, you were allowed to make noise and weren’t asked to leave over stereotypy/tics, allowed to bring in outside food, you could leave and come back, etc
I think they called them “sensory friendly screenings” or something like that? I worked in an autism group home at the time and we would take our clientele to them, the theater was super accommodating. I don’t think all of them do it though
This was like 2011 though and I feel like things have gotten worse in the us since then tho so maybe it’s much less common now
AMC still does sensory friendly screenings, though it looks like it’s only at certain locations.
I’m glad she is suing. These people are so concerned with other’s (usually children’s) genitals it’s disgusting.
