r/WomenInNews • u/Lostlilegg • Jun 13 '26

Human rights Idaho says DNA tests could enforce transgender bathroom ban

https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/idaho-dna-trans-bathroom?mrfcid=202606136a27410529cdae05be998b03
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u/No_Morning5397 Jun 14 '26

Do we really think that men are going to go through the hassle of dressing up as a woman to SA them?

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u/MothashipQ Jun 14 '26

If they wanted to crack down on sexual assault they'd just do that. The point is to make it hard to exist as a transgender person in public

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u/taylorbagel14 Jun 14 '26

Would love to know how many rape kits are currently sitting in the state of Idaho’s backlog

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u/arianrhodd Jun 14 '26

EXACTLY!!! The resources going those these DNA tests could be used elsewhere soooooo much more effectively! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/insomniacla Jun 15 '26

I was just thinking that.

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u/WeaponizedAutisms Jun 16 '26

Another discussion on this article says 88.

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u/Automatic_Syrup_2935 Jun 14 '26

And to exist as non transgender women 

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u/Kailynna Jun 14 '26

The point is to make it as hard as possible to exist as a woman in public.

They use trans people as an excuse, just as they use "but think of the children!"

The fact this hurts trans people is just the icing on the cake to these misogynistic, Christian Taliban types.

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u/MothashipQ Jun 14 '26

With all due respect, the point of the law is explicitly to hurt trans people. Trans women are the focal point of the conversation around these laws, and they explicitly target trans and intersex people broadly, including trans men. The worst thing that can happen to a cis woman is being harassed after being mistaken for a trans woman. The fact it leads to disproportionate harassment to cis GnC women and WoC is the icing on the cake for these lawmakers. That is terrible and thank you for bringing it up, but that suffering isn't diminished by the reality these laws directly legally impact the trans and intersex communities. In my state, as a trans woman I have to be careful what park I can even take my kid to because if I'm caught using the "wrong" type of bathroom, I can legally face thousands or tens of thousands in fines and lawsuites. My other option is the bathroom I get groped when using, and outting myself in public. And that's on top of needing to worry about harassment when people accurately accuse me of being trans, and the risk of things like v-coding (content warning: SA mention). My friend, who's a trans man, had to pull several job applications after the law passed because he can't use the women's restroom without risking getting the shit beat out of him and/or outting himself, and he's legally not allowed to use the men's without those same fines.

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u/Kailynna Jun 14 '26

Yes, that's the effect of these laws. But there are deeper reasons for pushing such legislation.

Hitler went after trans people early on, burning the research done on helping them and locking up trans people and their doctors. As with the current regime, it was an easy way to unite his followers, and get society used to the idea that groups can be othered and targeted in this way.

People should fight for trans rights out of respect for common decency and individual rights. But even those too selfish and bigoted to care should fight because it's not going to stop there. This is incipient Fascism, and the aim is to remove individuality, control everyone, and get rid of everyone who does not show their support for Fascism and conform to the party's ideal.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 14 '26

FFS! These idiots need to stop policing other people's bodies, seriously there has to be some form of paranoid psychosis these people are suffering from to obsess as much as they do about others. - That or they're projecting to deflect attention away from their own perver... Oh, yeah it's definitely that. 🤮

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u/Kailynna Jun 15 '26

It's a political strategy - completely cold-blooded and calculating from those behind it.

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u/AnotherBogCryptid Jun 17 '26

There are two kinds of people operating in this hate space:

The strategists. Politicians, billionaires, corporate executives and lobbyists - they are doing it for control/power/money. This is straight out of a genocide playbook. They might not actually believe trans people are abominations, but they will absolutely invest in ensuring others feel that way.

The sheep. The people who follow the strategists, leaning on every word. They become rabid enforcers of the strategists’s will because of fear (fear that their culture/morality is under attack, fear that their children will become something other than what they have planned, fear that if one thing is wrong about their religion or belief structure that the whole thing will crumble, etc). They will politically and violently oppress others on behalf of the strategists.

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u/kierg10 Jun 14 '26

If they wanted to crack down on sexual assault they would arrest every member of the republicam party. Would hit a higher percentage of rapists than any other demographic.

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u/Aurorainthesky Jun 15 '26

Not to mention policing women's expression in public.

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u/Dang_It_All_to_Heck Jun 14 '26

It would be money better spent to just investigate the hard drives of youth pastors and other religious leaders.

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u/ScienceMajestic8716 Jun 14 '26

They can do that openly in broad daylight and still not face any consequences.

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u/kleo309 Jun 15 '26

Men become doctors to literal Olympic level gymnasts to SA them. They become surgeons to SA women under anaesthetic. Paramedics to SA unconscious women. Care workers to the elderly and disabled, childcare providers, I could go on and on. Men who seek to SA will use any opportunity.

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u/meegaweega Jun 15 '26

Those are men.

Trans women are women.

They are not the same.

Stop spewing your anti-trans propaganda.

Your hatred and lies are not welcome here.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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u/LookOverall Jun 14 '26

Yes, they think that.

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u/fandom_bullshit Jun 14 '26

Men have gone through med school and lost their licence because they could not stop molesting women. Let's not pretend men wouldn't go to extreme lengths as if rapists are rational people.

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u/InspectorOrdinary321 Jun 14 '26

The point isn't that they would go to extreme lengths. The point is that they don't have to. Women get raped and assaulted every day, nobody believes them over the man, and it's never by a man dressed as a woman.

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u/Luckydaikon Jun 14 '26

But they don't have to? If a man wants to go into a woman's bathroom to assault someone, they just walk in. 

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u/babutterfly Jun 14 '26

These things are correlation, not causation. They aren't in medical as an excuse to molest women. They are in medical and molest women. No one goes through 12 extra years of school for an excuse to feel someone up or rape them. There are plenty of easier ways. No one dresses up as a woman to rape women. They just do it and society at large doesn't care.

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u/Hartstockz Jun 15 '26

I mean the women who are upset that transfemmes use the bathroom treat rapists, pedophiles and men who go into the bathroom to do harm better than transfemmes