North Carolina Police Say They Can’t Enforce Transgender Bathroom Law
11th May 2016
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This is, of course, nonsense, although it’s very understandable that NPR finds it attractive nonsense.
A man using a bathroom posted ‘Women’ or a woman using a bathroom posted ‘Men’ would be liable for arrest for trespass, just as if a customer went through a door marked ‘Employees Only’. The same doesn’t — and wouldn’t — require any police to be standing on guard, but rather would be triggered by a complaint, as most cases of trespass are. The situation doesn’t require a birth certificate, but merely an answer to the question ‘Do you have a penis?’, which can be determined by visual inspection.
Journalism schools must rival college education departments for the dimness of their students and the ability to charge people for imparting no discernible amount of education.