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I missed this news somehow (the article is from July 1st):

A judge has thrown out the case of a 20-year-old trans woman who was arrested in Florida for washing her hands in a women’s bathroom.

Prosecutors reportedly failed to meet the deadline for filing charging documents against Marcy Rheintgen after she was arrested while protesting the state’s anti-trans bathroom ban. A Leon County judge granted her lawyer’s motion to dismiss the misdemeanor trespassing charge.

In case you didn’t know the background:

In March, Rheintgen informed Florida lawmakers of her plan to enter the state’s Capitol building and use the restroom, even including a photo of herself so they knew who to look for. She never thought police would actually arrest her, despite the fact that the move broke the 2023 law.

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Nevertheless, two cops met her at the restroom, but she decided to go in anyway. At first, they told her they would just give her a notice to appear before the judge. But they then reported she became “sassy” and indicated she may use the women’s bathroom again, so they arrested her.

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Florida’s bathroom ban criminalizes anyone who uses a toilet or changing facility that doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It applies to public schools, universities, parks, prisons, and other government buildings but not to businesses and healthcare facilities.

The law only applies to facilities run by the state, but transgender and nonbinary Floridians have nonetheless been confronted, harassed, and intimidated in public restrooms located inside private businesses.

  • RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    honestly I’m glad. she really didn’t need to go to prison for any length of time. After reading about her and interacting with her ama, I double downed on that thought.

  • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
    84·
    2 days ago

    So, using “wrong” bathroom warrants 11 months prison sentence. Being actually convicted of 34 counts gets you presidency of United States of America. Tell me if USA isn’t a corrupt rotten fucking clown country… At least the judge isn’t part of that and actually acts like a human being throwing this nonsense out and dismissing it.

  • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    Police state, yay! /s

    Ron desantis is an asshole and needs to be institutionalised for life.

  • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 day ago

    Important note: Shes also a Trump supporter. She actively voted for Republicans who were going to do this to us and when they then did what they said they were going to do she was supposedly surprised. She fucked around and her getting arrested is her finding out.

    She also shouldn’t have gotten arrested and many many trans people go to the correct bathroom in states where it’s illegal to do so and have only not been arrested because we do everything we can to get in and get out and not make ourselves known.

    Edit: Apparently she did an AMA on Reddit that I didn’t see because, well, I’m barely there. She just wasn’t political before this, wasnt a conservative. See post below.

    Also it’s pretty nuts to be trans in America and “not be political” but that’s a whole other thing than being a conservative.

    Edit again: Fixed the strike through

      • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        2 days ago

        Well that’s positive! I’ve corrected my comment, I’m curious how that false reporting she was a trump supporter came to be but it’s good to know she isn’t that.

        Although her being “not political” is pretty fucking nuts but that’s not conservative at least.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          5·
          1 day ago

          You should put a line through the bad information too, in case someone stops without reading the edit.

    • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      (If the first two paragraphs don’t appear as strike through for you, they’re meant to be, it just might not be working since I’m in an app and I can’t see it personally)

      It’s because you accidentally left a space before the closing squiggles

      • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        @LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world here’s an example of how to do the strikethrough syntax:

        ~~this will strike me out~~

        will look like:

        this will strike me out

        but

        ~~this won't strike me out ~~

        will look like:

        ~~this won’t strike me out ~~

        Honorary Mancunian is pointing out the problem is that space that comes before the last ~~, if you delete that the strikethrough might work, but I’m not sure it will work for a whole block like you were trying, let me try:

        ~~testing one two three

        four five six~~

        nope, the strikethrough only works inline, so you would have to strikethrough each sentence:

        ~~Important note: Shes also a Trump supporter. She actively voted for Republicans who were going to do this to us and when they then did what they said they were going to do she was supposedly surprised. She fucked around and her getting arrested is her finding out.~~

~~She also shouldn’t have gotten arrested and many many trans people go to the correct bathroom in states where it’s illegal to do so and have only not been arrested because we do everything we can to get in and get out and not make ourselves known.~~

        which would look like:

        Important note: Shes also a Trump supporter. She actively voted for Republicans who were going to do this to us and when they then did what they said they were going to do she was supposedly surprised. She fucked around and her getting arrested is her finding out.

        She also shouldn’t have gotten arrested and many many trans people go to the correct bathroom in states where it’s illegal to do so and have only not been arrested because we do everything we can to get in and get out and not make ourselves known.

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    In March, Rheintgen informed Florida lawmakers of her plan to enter the state’s Capitol building and use the restroom, even including a photo of herself so they knew who to look for.

    Ok, now that makes way more sense to me. Before, I had no idea how they singled her out

    • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      yeah, it was an intentional act of civil disobedience, though she might have a different view on that. She is a conservative Catholic who believed if she prayed and appealed to her fellow conservatives’ consciences, they would … just not uphold the hateful laws they created to target her. She was wrong, unfortunately. She explicitly has said she isn’t an activist.