Ill. lawmaker: All-gender bathrooms will 'cause violence from dads like me'

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

A bill that would allow Illinois businesses to build bathrooms that are open to all genders moved closer to passing last week. Still, a comment by a Republican state senator during debates Thursday is being condemned by politicians and activist groups.

On the Senate floor that day, state Sen. Neil Anderson claimed that mixed-gender, multiple-occupancy restrooms would inspire physical altercations, saying that he himself could be driven to violence if “a guy” walked into the same bathroom as his 10-year-old daughter.

“I’m telling you right now, if a guy walks in there, I’m going to beat the living piss out of him,” Anderson said as his supporters cheered. “So this is going to cause violence, and it’s going to cause violence from dads like me.”

Later in the meeting, Sen. Mike Simmons (D), Illinois’s first openly gay state senator, said that Anderson’s comments were so offensive they should be stricken from the record.

“I wouldn’t want a single person in the state to read that record,” Simmons said, “and think that anybody here would come after them if they would do something so mundane as to use the bathroom, a simple call of nature.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ill-lawmaker-all-gender-bathrooms-will-cause-violence-from-dads-like-me/ar-AA1bv334

[MutantAndProud]

1. Solution: fewer communal bathrooms

More individualized ones. No ‘walking in’ and looking where you don’t need to look.

[Mr.Bill]

2. Exactly.

I see more and more of these in businesses and no problems.

And when you think about it, we all have single use multi-gender bathrooms in our own homes, don't we? Even State Senator Simmons does, I'm sure.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. businesses have taken the male/female individual restrooms and made them both

gender neutral.

[Mr.Bill]

5. Yes, that's what I'm seeing in California.

And we did it without state legislators threatening anyone with violence.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. agree. rows of individual bathrooms like they have at the beach. Locking door unit

containing sink and toilet. I'm sure architects are rethinking restrooms at this moment.

[jimfields33]

6. Absolutely true. This father has a point honestly

Can you imagine a grown man going to the bathroom next to a ten year old girl? These politicians don’t think at all. Individual bathrooms period.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. What?

No really. He’s talking about beating the piss out of someone for the crime of needing the toilet.

On my planet the bathroom stalls are not made of transparent materials so I’m not sure why the grown man emptying his bladder is an issue.

[ExciteBike66]

14. Uh...

Uh, as it stands that grown man can currently be in the same bathroom as my 9 year old boy. Should I beat him up for that as well?

[Bettie]

24. They are in stalls

so, why is it a giant problem? If the parent felt uncomfortable about it, they could go in and stand by the stall door to be sure that...what? The person in the next stall didn't pee too loudly?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Wrong wrong wrong. And please don't ENDORSE VIOLENCE the way you did

In Florida, this trans man would be forced to use women's restrooms, because of original birth certificate.

Just say NO to Extra-judicial Violence.
Just say NO to vigilantes.

Get clued in to the very real threats against good people. Please do not promulgate them!

Are you going to be the first to beat him up? Since you say that Anderson's threat of violence "has a point honestly", whereby you endorse the violence.

Shaking my head.

[obamanut2012]

27. dafuq

You know that already happens all over the world, right?

[TheBlackAdder]

7. I guess nobody's been to a hospital in the past decade, where all bathrooms are neutral.

[roamer65]

9. This PoS should be thrown out of the IL state Senate.

[Behind the Aegis]

10. So he is preemptively threatening queer people.

Sounds about right!

[Renew Deal]

20. Isn't it all men?

He has no idea who is going to walk through the door. He’s just going to start punching.

[Grokenstein]

11. Seems more concerned with boosting his tough-guy cred than his daughter.

These days you're not a real rightwanker until you've threatened someone.

[Captain Zero]

12. Two bathrooms side by side, idiot, both lock

Use either bathroom, lock the door, moron.

[GoodRaisin]

13. Totally unnecessary show put on by Mr. Tough Guy to draw votes from ignorant

hate filled rightwing assholes.

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Violence from "dads like him"... AKA drooling imbeciles

with anger-management issues and a pathological need to show what manly-men they are at every opportunity. You know... morons.

[Walleye]

16. If you are violent it's on you nobody makes you do it. Of course he's talking about beating up

Weak or more vulnerable people. He’s not gonna confront somebody his size you can bet on that. It’s one thing for some guy in a bar to be shouting this nonsense, but this is in the state house. Good God

[Phoenix61]

17. Common overseas. As are communal sinks being outside

of the toilet area. Personally, I think more people wish their hands because everyone can see them.

[Maeve]

21. Hubby heasitated at a non-gendered bathroom in Ireland 9 years ago

Got pushed out of the way by a man who seemed disgusted at the tourist acting all tourist-y.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. Love it when cis men tell on themselves.

[Renew Deal]

19. Wouldn't this be better for him and his kid?

Because now the girl has to either go to the men’s room with him or into the women’s room by herself. Now he can stay with her without it being too awkward.

[haele]

22. So, if a butch looking Chemo survivor or just a masculine looking woman walks in...

...to the bathroom of her birth gender, he's going to beat the shit out of her, too?
There are cis-women with masculine features, who may be unusually tall, or may have alopecia or some other condition. Of course, there are also intersex, hermaphroditic, and more petite persons in the middle of gender transition where you just can't tell.
So he's easily going to mistake somewhere near 2,% of the population who can use "a woman's restroom" - including his acceptable "biologically born females" and assault them like the tough guy he thinks he is.

Why does he think he has to protect his daughter? Does he also closely chaperone her to sports, church, or school where it's far more likely there could be a man who can possibly do things to her in private?

Haele

[Liberal In Texas]

23. Repbs: The party of senseless violence. n/t

[Johonny]

26. Tell me you never raised your kids without telling

me you never spent a day raising your kids. Literally every kids place these days has family rooms. They're common and already exist. The thing that he thinks will cause violence exists without incident because normal people think "shit isn't great there's this family room to bring my 4 year daughter into instead of the men's room."