Summary
Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested at the Florida State Capitol after intentionally entering a women’s restroom in protest of the state’s transgender bathroom law.
Civil rights lawyers say it is the first known arrest under such laws in any U.S. state.
Rheintgen faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge and could face up to 60 days in jail.
Florida is one of only two states to criminalize such acts.
They were a nobody before, now they will be a champion of liberalism.
They probably went from nearly unemployable like the rest of us, to guaranteed a good job at a nonprofit or other company that is proudly pro trans rights. There’s no shortage out there.
They just have to survive the judicial system and the penal system, with all the free legal representation coming their way they have a shot at avoiding any jail time, and who knows how the appeals will go after florida can’t secure a settlement or guilty plea.
Shes publicly trans in Florida.
She will be an obituary and at best a martyr.
Some of you people really still can’t understand the south is just this side of the taliban.
This is bravery, not a career step. The part about surviving of what’s comming next is too scary. Trans people in jail are already being transported to prisons of their birth gender. She’s risking a lot.
Right? The framing of that comment is very strange. Suspicious even.
The article uses she/her pronouns, which seems a reasonable choice. Any particular reason you’ve gone with they/them?
Weird to assume she is unemployable too, tbh.
i think they meant she was just another interchangeable employee “like the rest of us” rather than that she’s particularly unemployable for whatever reason
That’s also weird, though. “Like the rest of us” means nothing, plenty are employable, a vast majority are actually.
So, to assume they “probably went from unemployable” to winning the job lottery with a nonprofit is certainly a take.
I think (though i’m not certain) it was hyperbole. Emphasizing that the median resume would look unemployable to, like, a high paying consulting firm, like the sort that does work in DC.
I understand what you’re saying and I’m not certain either.
But, given that the context is a response to concern, it makes it sound like they’re suggesting that she’s gunning for the outcome. Like “don’t worry about them they’re all setup now.” A nobody who is now a champion of liberalism.
It just reads weird. Maybe they are just an ernest doomer who believes nobody is employable, but also thinks that everything will work out here. Stranger things have happened. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Some people are gender abolitionists and prefer they/them for anyone who doesn’t specifically preclude they/them.
I dunno, still seems like misgendering someone, just with a different reason for doing so.