Washington State’s Transgender Laws Could Get You Sued, Or Worse

Because it was passed quietly the day after Christmas, we're still learning about Washington state's transgender bathroom laws. What you don't know could get you sued, with the state backing the plaintiff, or even removed from a building-by force.

Breitbart.com is reporting, along with the Family Policy Institute of Washington, that the latest provision to the Washington State Human Right's Commission's transgender bathroom law contains provision that might shock you. Here's what the law itself says in part:

"Prohibited conduct.Prohibited conduct may include, but is
not limited to, the following:
(a) Asking unwelcome personal questions about an individual's
sexual orientation, gender expression or gender identity transgender
status, or sex assigned at birth; b(b) Intentionally causing distress to an individual by disclosing the individual's sexual orientation, gender expression or gender iden-
tity , transgender status, or sex assigned at birth against his or her wishes;
(c) Using offensive names, slurs, jokes, or terminology regarding
an individual's sexual orientation or gender expression or gender
identity."

By unwelcome, they mean you can't bring it up. If 'they' want to talk about it, fine. But you can't ask them if they are transgender.

In addition, the law states that a person who does complain, such as woman raising concerns over a 'man' in the ladies bathroom, can be "removed from the building."

So if you're a mother, and you and your daughter are in the bathroom, or store changing room, and you're upset that a man walks in because that's the sex he identifies with, you CANNOT complain to the store. In doing so, you leave yourself open to civil suits, and the state will back the person who files it. If you complain, they'll have the legal right to 'toss you' from the property.

So, with a quietly, sneakily passed law, the Human Rights Commission has just spit in the face of citizens, especially women, and essentially said, 'you're right to privacy, security and safety don't matter.'

To find out more about what the law really does, click here.

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