Because the hate campaign was so successful they were afraid of having a yes vote haunt them down the road, perhaps?

the bill’s own sponsors to vote against the bill, when they didn’t need to, feels like a pointless betrayal.

I just don’t get it.

My thoughts exactly.

Yeah Lauren, and maybe the folks getting so upset are the ones who like to peek at their neighbor?

Ha! No kidding! Bathroom politics are perplexing. Transphobic, absolutely, and FUCKING NOSEY. I don’t want to know who or what is going on behind any stall, just like I hope nobody’s uber-concerned about what kind of business I’m doing in mine. Whatever it is I’m doing in there can just as easily be done behind the door with the skirt on it as the one with the pants. Just get me to the john.

There’s nothing I can imagine that compels a person to be THAT concerned about where anyone else shits and washes their hands than transphobia in its truest sense. Fear fucking sells.

I don’t think the New Hampshire state senate is all composed of people who WANT to see more discrimination against trans people. But the bill also didn’t fail because it was poorly written. It failed, at least in the opinion of the SPONSORS of the Bill, who also voted against it, because the attack campaign mounted against it by right-wing opponents was so successful, in their take, that there wasn’t a bat’s chance in hell.

Is there anyone else who just doesn’t get this, or is it just me? Why would the sponsors of a bill vote against it?

Even if it was going to fail, they could have prevented it from being a unanimous vote permitting anti-trans discrimination. That would have still sucked — but to the bill’s own sponsors to vote against the bill, when they didn’t need to, feels like a pointless betrayal.

I just don’t get it.

You’re doing your best. You’re showing genuine goodwill. I’m sure this is a wake-up call to you, and you must be wondering “how do I do better next time?”

Don’t sweat it, OK? Cut yourself some slack. By my book, you are so many light years ahead of the game that it would be unjust to expect 100% perfection.

You added a postscript. Most wouldn’t.

Queer sex is great, it’s fun as shit don’t worry
Jesus is dead and God don’t exist and swearing is fun,
it’s funner than piss, that’s it’s stupid is a cruel and classist myth.
Queer sex is great, it’s fun as shit,
Don’t kill yourself cause people can’t deal with your brilliance
Sometimes I can’t remember why i want to live
Then i think of all the freaks and i don’t want to miss this
It’s just like Donna said it depends where you’re at in your head.

hi, corwin, i’m one of Donna Dresch’s freaks. pleased to meet you!

A guaranteed minimum salary no matter what the circumstances, independent of corporations being willing to make a profit of you would be a different argument.

Kristen J.: yeah, discrimination is economically inefficient in that it reduces the amount produced and the value of what is produced, but it also serves to keep wages down by maintaining a permanent state of underemployment.

Don’t make me quote Team Dresch lyrics at you! And, really, focusing on the profanity instead of addressing any of the points made is intellectually weak.

Thanks again for all the trans women speaking the truth about LGB’s and getting to the T ‘later.’ That’s a tired, tired song, and I think we’re all quite done with it.

I think I’m done doing any work with people who identify as SSM activists, or if they do my first question will be about what activism they’ve done outside of LGB or even T issues. Single-Issue activists are self-focused and their word isn’t worth shit.

Ut-oh, I swore again.