Texas unveils “tip line” to report & send pictures of suspected trans women using the restroom. The form lets people reporting trans bathroom users submit up to 5 photos even though taking pictures in restrooms is illegal.

Okay, so they’re going to “protect women” by encouraging people to send in spy shots from women’s restrooms? 

There are going to be a lot of pissed off homely women in Texas.

>In reality, research has shown no evidence that allowing trans women access to single-sex spaces like bathrooms poses a safety risk to cisgender women.

>In fact, forcing trans people to use facilities that do not align with their gender identity can result in “high rates of harassment and violence against transgender people as well as cisgender people, particularly women who do not conform to traditional ideas of femininity,” according to the [Movement Advancement Project](https://www.lgbtmap.org/policy-and-issue-analysis/bathroom-ban-laws#:~:text=By%20contrast%2C%20bathroom%20ban%20laws%20compromise%20public,take%20the%20law%20into%20their%20own%20hands.). A 2021 study from UCLA’s Williams Institute found that trans people are [four times more likely than cis people](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/03/trans-people-face-four-times-violence-cis-people/) to be victims of violent crime.

>The law has already been used in ways that lawmakers may not have intended. Students at the University of [Texas](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/tag/texas) San Antonio (UTSA), for example, are being forced out of their current dorm rooms and made to relocate because of the ban.

>At UTSA, mixed-gender dorms include pairs of rooms separated by a shared bathroom; often, those rooms are occupied by people of different genders. Any students sharing a bathroom between their rooms with someone of a different sex assigned at birth are being forcibly rehoused to comply with the new law.

This is ridiculous. Republicans are trying to be the bathroom police to do inspections on people using the bathroom. This is utterly asinine. It’s all part of the Christian nationalists plot of genocide against trans people. Christian nationalists have made it clear that they would rather have dead people than trans people. It’s pure fascism.

Immediately waiting on the barrage of people sending photos of Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton to this. This’ll be trolled beyond all belief.

Here’s an ethical question, and purely hypothetical because I don’t touch AI:

What Texas is doing is unethical. AI is inherently unethical. But is using LLM AI to generate and submit thousand of realistic sounding but ultimately fake tip for the purpose of forcing the humans reading those tips to waste immense amount of time chasing ghosts ethical?

You know what I don’t think about when I am using a public restroom? The genitals of the other people using the restroom. You know why, because who the hell does? Like, another person is using the public restroom. My thoughts are not, nor have they ever been, about their genitalia.

I’d much rather report who is not washing their hands.

it’d be a real shame if people used AI to generate images to troll this submission.

It would be a shame if people *really* didn’t use that for its intended purpose…

Two snarky thoughts:

1. Is there also a tip line to report people taking picture in bathrooms?

2. It’s a two-fer; the state gets *suspected* trans people using the ‘wrong ” bathroom AND people taking pictures in bathrooms.

and trans men?

This is going to primarily affect cis women who had the audacity to be born tall, have a strong jaw, or not fit into what old white men think a woman should look like.

Should be flooded with pictures of Texas politicians going in the men’s room and saying theyre really women.

I wonder if they’re going to be getting a lot of photos of goatse. Might as well traumatize the ones who are trying to do the traumatizing, if they want to see photos we should give them photos!

Yes, great idea.

Incentivize people to record citizens in the bathroom without their knowledge.

Which is a crime.

These people are fucking sick

So they just want to takes nudes of women? Because this is so creepy….always “trans” but it means all women. You can’t have equality without trans equality.

Keep sending them pictures of MTG.

Gonna be a lot of pissin TERFS getting their pictures posted who couldn’t think far enough ahead to see that happening

Taking pictures of women in the bathroom. This’ll end well.

An online form? Perfect.

It would be a total shame if people started submitting so many requests it DOSs the portal completely.

Remember, if you see someone taking pictures of people in the restroom, you can just beat the shit out of them.

Cis woman here, this news makes me feel unsafe ever going to Texas. They’re giving people a pass to photograph all women in the restroom and to persecute trans women/non binary folks.

Folks in Texas who now feel unsafe just being in public: I’m so sorry and I hope things change for the better soon. 

Bigots: if you’re so uncomfortable with women using the restroom, don’t use it.

I am middle-aged.

I used public restrooms.

Never once, have I seen another man’s (or woman’s) genitals.

I’m pretty sure that nobody has ever seen mine (that I noticed).

This is 1000% fear mongering issue manufactured on part of the MAGA-fucks.