It looks to me like they are threatening violence. I'm guessing they would deny it ...

[Phil01]

Democrats’ all-gender bathroom, gun lawsuit bills prompt heated debate — with GOP warnings of court challenges, violence
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/5/18/23728959/all-gender-bathrooms-restrooms-multi-capacity-gun-lawsuits-democrats-republicans

SPRINGFIELD — Tempers flared on the state Senate floor Thursday during debate of Democratic-led measures, including a bill that clears the way for gun manufacturers to be sued and another that would allow businesses to create multi-capacity bathrooms open to all genders — an idea one Republican warned will spark violence.

State Sen. Neil Anderson, R-Andalusia, told lawmakers that he would “beat the living p---” out of any man who walked into a restroom with his daughter.

“This is gonna cause violence, and it’s gonna cause violence from dads like me,” the Moline firefighter and paramedic said to some cheers from fellow Republicans during floor debate on the measure.

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[Walleye]

1. Typical Maga male. If he beats a vulnerable person it's because somebody forced him to do it

So much manufactured outrage. Doesn’t it poison their health

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Tennessee legislature enacted protections for gun businesses after the school shooter killed 6. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

13. +1

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Hey Anderson! Ron DeSantis would force this man to walk into a restroom with your daughter

Anderson! Heads up! Ron DeSantis is a Republicon like you and wants to rule you.

Under Florida legislation, your daughter and this man would have no choice but to share the same restroom, because of their original birth certificates.

Now, you be waiting there to beat the piss out of him. Then go beat the piss out of DeSantis who is using this artificial moral panic for personal ambition and thereby harming your daughter (in your minds).

Don't spend your bucks in Florida unless you are ready for violence, Anderson!

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. Personally, I would love to see him try to 'beat the living P' outta this person.

In fact, I would be willing to pay to see it.

[tanyev]

5. Exactly. How the hell will they even know who's trans and who's not?

What these bills will actually do is give snoopy busybodies an opportunity to report any man or woman who doesn't conform to sterotypical male/female appearance and mannerisms.

[yardwork]

14. I think that is their ultimate goal.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Yes make life a living hell for trans who won't even be able to use publicly accessible bathrooms

... when out and about.

If a trans woman obeys the law and uses men's room, then expect vicious hectoring at a minimum.

If a trans man obeys the law and uses women's room, then expect some violence from male relatives.

By christian conservative design.

[yardwork]

22. Not just trans people. They're after anybody who doesn't match their idea of gender norms.

Anyone who isn't a white straight male dressed in their uniform of slacks and a collared shirt (tie optional), or the loyal subservient wife (white straight female, "modest" dress, low heels) will be targeted.

They're frantically trying to preserve their patriarchal ideal, and trying to wipe out everybody who is dismantling that ideology - independent women with degrees and careers, disrespectful kids who don't dress "like they're supposed to," "uppity" people of color who don't know their place, "invading" immigrants, etc etc etc.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Yes. They think they are not sheeple, but they want everybody to conform

Right Wing Authoritarian Followers do what followers do: they follow.

[Hope22]

27. The simple solution is to add a family restroom to new construction.

We could label them men, women, and private. My heart goes to trans people and everyone who doesn’t fit the white supremacist ideal. This place is out of control.

[IronLionZion]

18. They already do that

they call police on "masculine-looking" women all the time. They especially love abusing short haired lesbian women.

[yardwork]

23. Plenty of those short-haired "masculine" women are straight.

And plenty of lesbians and trans women are very feminine looking.

None of the stereotypes are accurate.

[IronLionZion]

25. You try explaining that to a MAGAt

they don't care. They're obsessed with the idea of men in dresses preying on girls in restrooms.

And that happens here in Washington, DC, one of the most LGBT-friendly cities in America.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Hoo hoo inspectors

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17926307

[jonstl08]

29. exactly

Know one trans man who was born a woman. He looks like a man. By these bathroom laws if he followed the law as written and went into the bathroom of his birth they would think he was a man and beat the crap out of him. But he was following the law.

[flying_wahini]

16. Wow, look at the muscles! I know what you've been doing!

And Luv the shoes, too!❤️❤️

[judesedit]

6. They should have a bathroom like they already do in many places for anybody

that wants to use it. A single toilet and sink for one person at a time. The door gets locked by any individual using it. They are common in many places. How will that cause violence?

[Liberal In Texas]

7. Yep, Unisex restrooms have been around for a long time.

The company I worked for in the 70s built a new building and the restroom in our work area was like that: toilet, sink, lock on the door.

Also, just as an aside, I find it odd that we've gotten used to calling a restroom a bathroom when there is no bath.

[judesedit]

8. Lol. True. My oversight. Just so used to calling it that at home

Correction: Unisex restroom

Thanks for pointing that out

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Canada is sensible. We call it a "washroom". There is little resting in public restrooms

Sure there is a bit of a rest on the potty.

But who wants to rest in a public "restroom" with the smells, the traffic, the noise, ....

On the other hand, it is a social norm to wash your hands after using a potty or urinal in a WASHROOM.

They can also be referred to as "toilets".

[judesedit]

34. Lol. Okay, washrooms

[IronLionZion]

26. No rest either

calling it a toilet or lavatory is common in other countries. Or the loo in UK, whatever that means.

[Aristus]

33. There are languages that have solved that problem.

In Germany, if you have to answer a call of nature, you go to the “toilette”.

If you want to take a bath, you go to the “badezimmer”, bathroom.

[MuseRider]

9. Even I have seen several of those

popping up in dumbshit Kansas (amazing). My first thought was that it is perfect. It would be good to have more than one however given the wait times in some women's restrooms, we will take those over out of sheer need!

While I see no need for people to worry about transfolk I do think the bathroom for everyone is uncomfortable at best for a lot of women but dangerous as well. Transfolk are not a danger but cismen are always a danger for women. We need a place to go to go that is comfortable.

[judesedit]

35. They should still have multi-stall bathrooms. Sometimes you'd like a little more privacy

[Ohioboy]

11. One person at a time restrooms are everywhere these days

A winery near me recently made both of their restrooms unisex. It's a simple solution.

[niyad]

10. Welcome to our DU family. I don't get the hysteria over bathrooms, and have not

since the early days of the battle for the ERA (cue phyllis schlafly). I live in fundieville, yet we have had unisex bathrooms, for a couple of decades, with no hysterics. Gin up the outrage machine, magats.

[azureblue]

12. not even thinking

State Sen. Neil Anderson, R-Andalusia, told lawmakers that he would “beat the living p---” out of any man who walked into a restroom with his daughter.
That that guy could be packing. Stand your ground, you know?

[IronLionZion]

15. Republicans don't have any political agenda so it's not terrorism

it's violence and intimidation against civilians for purely sporting purposes and home defense and typical tourist behavior or locker room talk.

[sarcasmo]

21. The GOP is a terrorist organization.

[aeromanKC]

28. Enjoy prison MAGAt

[aggiesal]

30. If I can't get my way, I'm going to beat you up ...

I'm willing to bet, that if you polled this guy's classmates growing up, they'd say he was the class bully.

[hadEnuf]

31. MAGAt scum who keep threatening violence may find themselves on the preemptive receiving end of it.

People are getting sick of this.

[iscooterliberally]

32. I don't understand these bathroom bills.

Does this mean we now have to pull our pants down to our ankles before we walk into the bathroom?