House Bill 752 criminalizes trans bathroom use in all private businesses with severe penalties. While passing it, Republicans argued trans people won't be harmed because they don't exist.
I appreciate the thought here, but it’s absurd to argue that passing “doesn’t exist.” Fine if you want to say it doesn’t or shouldn’t matter. Or that it gets too much focus placed on it. But to pretend passing simply doesn’t exist? This is just gaslighting. Passing obviously does exist. It’s specific definition would be “having an appearance that the vast majority of randomly selected people would say most resembles a gender other than that assigned to a person at birth.” That’s an objective fact. We can’t just wish it away because it’s inconvenient.
I appreciate the thought here, but it’s absurd to argue that passing “doesn’t exist.” Fine if you want to say it doesn’t or shouldn’t matter. Or that it gets too much focus placed on it. But to pretend passing simply doesn’t exist? This is just gaslighting. Passing obviously does exist. It’s specific definition would be “having an appearance that the vast majority of randomly selected people would say most resembles a gender other than that assigned to a person at birth.” That’s an objective fact. We can’t just wish it away because it’s inconvenient.