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Like, let’s be clear about this, re: anti-trans bathroom laws.

There’s the part of the law where using the bathroom becomes something you can be arrested for if you don’t pass perfectly, regardless of which one you’re in. This by itself makes being in public difficult and fear of arrest an everyday fact.

Then there’s the part of the law where once you get arrested and convicted and become a sex offender, you’re subject to all of the other laws affecting registered sex offenders in your local jurisdiction, such as: inability to live or work within or outside of certain zones (sometimes this amounts to every part of a city), the requirement to notify a registry of your address, inability to be around underage people, inability to use the internet, etc.

And then there’s the part of the law where once you’re a registered sex offender, your photo, name, address, car license plate, whatever information was collected is available publicly on the internet for any random neonazi to search and access.

This is about turning the trans community into targets of violence and arrests and making life so difficult that it becomes impossible. This is about making sure that the government has an updated list of trans people and where to find them whenever they get a way to do worse.

It’s also about making sure all of their violent supporters have access to that information immediately and winkwink-nudgenudge support for using it.

This is the first time I’ve heard of the bathroom laws resulting in sex offender status. That’s several new levels of fucked up. Do you know which specific bathroom laws include this and why it hasn’t been more of a focal point im the campaign against the bathroom laws?