Johnathan Gooch, communications director for Equality Texas, told the Texas Tribune, “It’s a very aggressive way to alienate trans people from public life, and I think it is counter to the spirit of friendship that most Texans embody.”

“Oh, she’s just a tomboy, the phase will pass.”

Depends on the state.

Oh, last time I saw only Florida had that dubious distinction. They’ve been busy. It’s infuriating what a shithole a large portion of this country has become.

So were there no gendered bathrooms in public places before then as well?

“Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic, but deep down inside you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king.”

The US and Australia - two of England’s racist kids.

I agree with you. Its a great system if everyone knows everyone else. On a large scale, human nature means pure communism will always fail.

Leaves grow upward because they would die in the depths, just as roots would die in the air.

Only as far as authoritarian systems that are communist in name only always end up that way.

The government is allowing it to be that way, though.

It’s a problem of scale. A utopian system where everyone knows everyone else can work quite well, but once it bets bigger than that it all goes to shit.

English is a Germanic language that has had significant Latin and French (which added more Latin) injected into it over the years. It has to be the most mongrel widespread language in existence, which is probably why it’s such a mess when it comes to spelling. Still, it also has a lot of flexibility and word choices because of it.

It has made finding actually useful information harder nowadays, but I’ll still accept the blame for this one.

Yeah, I figured it was hopeless after reading their other responses, but I wanted to see what kind of response stating very basic facts would get. A nonsensical statement with a snide comment at the end was the answer. Bizarre.

Thanks, my google-fu wasn’t up to the task. That’s about what I was expecting.

The dog shit on their boots is a nice touch.

Rarely do I see someone quite so confidently incorrect as you.

I’d have to get a list of every country considered “western” and then figure out how many have predominantly Latin-derived and Germanic-derived languages. Too much work. “Nearly every” one of them would most certainly not be Latin-derived, though.

Puerto Rico is a commonwealth, not a country.

Every US state is an area of land with a government. Are they countries?