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The form lets people reporting trans bathroom users submit up to 5 photos even though taking pictures in restrooms is illegal.

Texas’ virulently anti-trans attorney general, Ken Paxton (R), has launched a tip line that allows people to report on suspected trans people they believe are violating the state’s new bathroom ban.

In a statement announcing the tip line, Paxton said the Texas Women’s Privacy Act – which requires people in public buildings to use bathrooms based on sex assigned at birth – “was passed to ensure that women and girls in Texas are protected from mentally ill men wanting to violate their basic right to privacy.”

“It’s absolute insanity that action like this is even needed,” he claimed, “but unfortunately, in the day and age of radical leftism, it is.”

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.

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[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 month ago

DAMMIT! As a Mentally ill man I was in the MIDDLE of Spending HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of Dollars to Change my Gender JUST so I can use the Same bathroom as GIRLS! But he's FOILED my Plan!

[-] slothrop@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago

What's the number? goatse might not be able to handle the load.

[-] synae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

If there's one thing goatse can do, it's handle a load

[-] daannii@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maralago face looks masculine.

There i said it.

I don't even know how.

Since it's pumped lips and lifted eye brows. But it makes the women look like they are men in drag but somehow super ugly.

(Cause drag queens are fabulous.)

I am totally on board for harassing conservative women with maralago or non-maralago face in the women's restroom.

I'll do my best to memorize the faces/names of local women from the heritage foundation, mothers for liberty group (or whatever they are called) and any other similar groups. Any woman wearing maga clothing (why do they advertise themselves?).

And I will 100% question them about their vagina or lack there of, while in the bathroom. I will demand to see it or threaten to call security or the police.

Let's see how they like that.

Since I'm white, short, and look and sound like a woman. I will use my pussy privilege and take on this responsibility. 😇 I promise to rise to the occasion and punish these bitches as best I can.

I've got a lot of feminist rage in me over all the b.s occurring and need an outlet. It's a win win for me personally.

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 11 points 1 month ago

I've got a lot of feminist rage in me over all the b.s occurring and need an outlet. It's a win win for me personally.

I'm a real big fan of this kind of energy!

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Maralago face looks masculine.

To me it looks like someone has dysmorphia and has replaces their normal face with a stare-eyed duck mask.

[-] Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maralago face looks masculine.

Of course it does, you have a bunch of narcissistic billionaire men who are in love with themselves.

The clouds above my neighbourhood are getting sick of me screaming at them everyday, they actually got together and left a letter on my porch, didn't even know clouds could do that. On the plus side, I now know the fluffy one's name is Lobo now. The rage is real.

[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

From my understanding it happens because decades of injections have essentially ruined their face right? And they basically can't stop getting them because they would look like a monster. So the only solution is to keep getting injections on a regular basis. It's worse in people that started getting injections in their 20s because by the time they are 40 it's just unrecoverable.

I could be totally wrong if someone has a better explanation. But I don't think they are actually wanting to look like that. Its just "the best that can be done" at that point.

[-] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Idk. I hear the injection stuff builds up and turns solid over time.

I mean. There is Botox. Which paralyzes the muscles. And then there is filler. Which is the stuff that builds up and stays in the face. Sometimes migrates around.

[-] mr_account@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Internet, you know what to do

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Fire bomb the building that houses the tip line? Plant a car bomb into the Republican governor's car? Spam the tip line for a few weeks and then forget about it? I'ma bet we only do the last one.

[-] santa@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’m waiting to see how this blows up in their face by people just sending millions of memes and generative AI pictures inflicting a DDOS

Edit: adjusted acronym; Denial of Service or Distributed Denial of Service

[-] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago

If we're doing it right they should all be AI generated trans versions of Republican leaders and podcast bros.

[-] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

you mean DOS… or really DDOS.

i think this will blow up naturally when people start get arrested/ beat up, for taking pictures of strangers in the bathroom

[-] Zedd00@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

It should just be pictures of Ken Paxton. S/he is dressing like a man to sneak into the men's bathroom to stare at dude's dicks and smell their farts. It's perverted, and the people of Texas shouldn't stand for it.

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago

Why is it always suspected trans women? Paxton probably uses ED pills, which are gender-affirming care, we can start there.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is Ken Paxton virulently anti-trans? Because this feels like the last ditched effort of a desparate man in a red state who lost access to his favorite porn sub-genre when Pornhub pulled out. Feels very voyeur trans scat fetish-esque to me.

Guys, guys... I've figured it out. I just need you to send me peeping Tom photos of trans folks peeing. It's so critical. And not just one or two. We need thousands, no, millions of photos. Send them to kennygmyp3nis@hotmail.com.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

He said he would be enforcing anti-sodomy laws if the supreme court let him.

[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Is there a tip line to report a corrupt greed monster wearing human skin that is currently occupying the Texas AG office?

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I wonder how many women will be getting photographed mistakenly (or out of malice) and accused of being trans?

[-] Renat@szmer.info 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think this number will be more than population of T people in Texas. Also some T people on estrogen looks enough feminine to not be suspected.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

So like could these photos be used as evidence against the photographer for taking illegal pictures?

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago
[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I know it might seem beneficial to flood the tip line with garbage data but they don't care about the truth and months from now they will just say that they have evidence of thousands and thousands of perpetrators and they'll use your garbage data as their talking point

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

What if it was all AI generated images of frogs using the restroom?

[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 7 points 1 month ago

...What the fuck is wrong with all of you?

[-] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago
[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 points 1 month ago

I would have said learned helplessness and self-serving apathy, but that too probably.

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It really isn't all of us ... 😒

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

...What the fuck is wrong with all ~~of you~~ y’all?

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago
[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

athe problem.is the GOP. Texas isn't nearly as red as people think.

The GOP got total control of the Texas government for the first time ever in the 2002 election. They then spent 2003 dedicating themselves to changing laws and voting districts to make sure they never lost that control.

[-] Arancello@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

What if someone saw Ken Paxton pulling up his fishnets after visiting a gloryhole?

[-] emmanuel_car@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a great AI prompt

[-] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 6 points 1 month ago

Glad to see they're tackling the real issues! /s

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

So they want right-wing pedos and creeps to creep on strangers in public spaces because... somehow doing exactly that isn't already illegal? Huh?

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago
[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Yooo what the fuck?

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I’m looking forward to the invasion of privacy lawsuits that will come as a result of this.

And I hope every motherfucker that takes a single picture is publicly listed as a sex offender.

[-] chellewalker@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Texas unveils "tip line" to send nonconsentual photos of naked woman to their elected officials.

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Cis people should be banned from all public bathrooms no one wants to see these conformists.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

If that's what it takes for our Trans brothers and sisters to get treated right, I'll take one for the team.

[-] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They want pics of trans women peeing? I mean, if that's what they want, send it to them

[-] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

So basically this is a way you can harass cisgender women who don't match beauty standards.

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