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[–]BEB 29 insightful - 3 fun29 insightful - 2 fun30 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

I am sick to my stomach. My heart goes out to every woman in a California prison, and this is my promise to them: I will fight to overturn this law.

Gavin Newsom is a piece of shit, as is Scott Wiener, the state senator who put forward the bill, as is Toni Atkins, the president pro temp of the California state Senate. As is every state California state senator and assembly member who voted for this bill.

Anyone in California? Please call your assembly member and senator, because Scott Wiener and Toni Atkins - who ironically enough, think of themselves as the LGBT representatives - no doubt have more women-hating bills in the pipeline. So it would be good to tell CA legislators what pieces of misogynistic, rape-enabling shit they are while protesting more misogynistic gender lobby legislation in advance.

Anyone remember when George Dubya was running for re-election and Gavin Newsom, then mayor of San Francisco, decided to allow gay marriage in San Francisco - most probably to score points with liberals? Because Newsom has never had a moral compass - remember that Newsom was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, ex-Fox News host and current squeeze of Don Jr.

The 24 hour cable was flooded with gay weddings in San Francisco, which would have been a cause for celebration, except back then some US voters weren't ready for it.

I always thought Newsom pulling what seemed to me, even before I knew much about him, to be a publicity stunt, helped throw the election to Bush II. Well, that and all the voter fraud the Republicans engaged in...

Already, I've seen a backlash on Twitter: that oily, right wing shit stirrer, Ian Miles Cheong, has tweeted out this news, and his followers, to give them credit, are aghast. Many people across the political spectrum are aghast.

So Newsom might have done it again: Newsom might have helped throw a presidential election to the Republican candidate. And screwed helpless women too. Heck of a job, Gavvie (showing my age).

There is a recall petition already circulating for Newsom. I will find it and post. Anyone who hates women cannot be allowed to stay in office. Time for Newsom to go.

[–]WrongToy[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

It's a Sophie's choice, isn't it. On one hand you have people like Newsom who would uphold abortion (but not enough to make abortion pills available on UC/CSU campuses) but are 100 percent for putting intact males into women's prisons for these males' safety.

On the other, you have Trump shooing in an actual Serena Waterford in Amy Coney Barrett. You ever see the Handmaid's Tale with the Elliott Stabler guy who has this huge mostly but not all white family and everyone's like, that's so awesome? That's exactly what I thought of hers when she trotted them up there. Barrett belongs to a cult that until 2017 called the women they had over other women "handmaids."

Either way, women's rights are being eroded and quite a few are becoming handmaidens to satisfy the whims and privilege of males.

[–]WrongToy[S] 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco who authored the bill, said he doesn’t expect that exception to be used very often.

“It’s just a false narrative about transgender people and about transgender women in particular that they’re somehow not really women and are just trying to scam their way into women’s bathrooms or facilities in order to do bad things,” Wiener said. “Overwhelmingly the people who are being victimized are trans people.”

Weiner, meet Jessica Yaniv. Or half of r/mtf. Or those dainty flowers swinging barbed wire bats at libraries while exhibiting shirts that say they "kill terfs."

i know that's too intersectional for your tiny head, the one over your shoulders here, so explain how more Yanivs wouldn't happen.

[–]BEB 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Scott Wiener is just so evil. But then so is every member of the California legislature that voted for this and Governor Scammin' Newsom too.

The women officers are going to have to search these TiMs and non-binaries, which must be a violation of their human rights?

[–]WrongToy[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Who cares what they say their gender is. The fundamental issue is whether they have a penis and balls, not how they identify.

I don't actually know whether female custodial staff is required to physically handle females. I do know that there are a lot of men in corrections and that they observe quite a bit as it is.

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm assuming that staff has to do intimate searches of prisoners? At least that's what happens in the movies ;-)

The articles I've read on this law said that staff has to treat the TiM as the sex he identifies with, so that would mean female prison staff would have to touch his genitals, I'm pretty sure. Anyone know?

[–]WrongToy[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is what's supposed to happen according to Prison Rape Eradication Act of 2002, revised twice through 2012.

A person is supposed to present themselves to medical for a general checkup. If the genitals are observed, they may be noted, but noting the genitals themselves cannot be the primary purpose of the checkup.

Body cavity physical searches are infrequent. i'm not sure but wouldn't be surprised if a female guard's duties included looking up men's asses,

I would hope it would be different for the women, for very obvious reasons. There are only two prisons in california that are fully female; another is about 1/4 by floor. There used to be three, but one shut down and males were moved into it.

[–]ekitten 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I thought of that Handmaid's Tale family as well.