Women banned from public toilets under outrageous new legislation

Barbaric new legislation is set to make it illegal for a huge number of women to use the bathroom in public spaces.

Panic is setting in for people in an American state where it’s feared a new law will ban women, including the young and elderly, from using public bathrooms.

A viral tweet this week raised alarm about new legislation in Kansas which, under its definition of “women”, would ban a huge number of people from public toilets.

“Kansas has just made it illegal to wee at women’s and girls’ public toilets if you’re perimenopausal or menopausal, taking the contraceptive pill, or you don’t ovulate for any other medical reason. This is where anti-trans madness leads,” the tweet read.

The conclusions were drawn based on the state defining a woman as: someone “whose reproductive system is developed to produce ova”.

Many believe the definition excluded all women who, for whatever reason, didn’t ovulate.

The Kansas bill, which targets transgender people, also used terms including “girl”, “woman” and “mother” in its definition.

There is fear a huge volume of people will be penalised for using the ‘wrong’ public bathroom in Kansas.

The person behind the tweet shared another that agreed the wording appeared to suggest “infertile and intersex women are now banned from using women’s bathrooms in the state”.

The wild legislation was rapidly and broadly condemned, leading people to suggest: “So if you aren’t ovulating because you’re pregnant, you are not permitted to use the bathroom?”

“So basically most women over the age of 50 can’t use female public toilets. But in some cases menopause can come as early as late 20s. But a woman transitioning to man can if they haven’t had the complete surgical transition. There’s going to be a lot of people holding it in,” another suggested.

The bill, passed last week, prohibits transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identities and forces them into using toilets that correlate with the sex they were born with.

Kansas has just made it illegal to wee at women’s and girls’ public toilets if you’re perimenopausal or menopausal, taking the contraceptive Pill, or you don’t ovulate for any another medical reason. This is where anti-trans madness leads. https://t.co/iX98bwbZOv

— Kaz Cooke (@reallykazcooke) May 1, 2023

The legislation, which if it weren’t for a 2019 federal court order to allow for changes, would also prevent transgender people from changing their driver’s licences and birth certificates.

LGBTQ+ rights advocates have warned the measure would legally erase transgender people and deny recognition to non-binary, gender-fluid and gender-nonconforming people.

Activists also said having a driver’s licence or birth certificate confirm a trans person’s identity was not only important by itself, it also could prevent harassment.

“I am what they are scared of,” Ian Benalcazar, a 13-year-old Kansas transgender boy, said during a recent LGBTQ rights rally.

“I am a human being and I deserve to be treated as such, and I deserve to be happy.”

The measure would declare that legally, “sex” means “biological” sex, “either male or female, at birth.”

It adds that “important governmental objectives of protecting the health, safety and privacy” justify separate spaces for men and women like bathrooms and locker rooms.

“This will protect women’s spaces currently reserved for women and men’s spaces,” House Health Committee Chair Brenda Landwehr, a Wichita Republican who voted for the legislation, said.

All post-menopausal women have just been de-gendered in law by the Kansas state legislature.

Legally, they’re prohibited from using women’s bathrooms & services.

Who are they now?
What are they now?

They’ve ceased to be fertile, so legally have ceased to exist.

Comes Gilead. https://t.co/PuYks14i9G

— Van Badham ✊ (@vanbadham) May 1, 2023

Thanks to my hysterectomy, under the new Kansas bathroom bill, I’d have to use the men’s room. https://t.co/318yWsWftz

— Harshmallow 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ Rogue Antifa, Inc. (@Nikki2U) April 29, 2023

The final vote came shortly after Arkansas politicians sent Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders a bathroom bill after scaling it back amid complaints it would have criminalised transgender people for simply using a public toilet.

The Arkansas bill would allow trans people to be charged with a misdemeanour for using bathrooms or changing rooms associated with their identities if cisgendered minors are present — but only if they enter it “for the purpose of arousing or gratifying a sexual desire.”

Both states’ measures are among hundreds pursued by Republicans across the US to roll back LGBTQ rights — angering LGBTQ rights activists, transgender people and parents of trans kids.

Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, a Wichita-area Republican, said politicians wanted to protect families amid what people see as a small but growing number of cases of trans girls or women using facilities with cisgendered girls or women.

“People are starting to pay attention,” Masterson said.

– With New York Post