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.
Brave as fuck. I’m terrified for her.
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.
Bravery or suicidal?
She told the cops ahead of time what the plan was. Did she expect it to go some other way?
She could’ve moved up to mass, i’m positive if she posted online someone would have taken her in to help her get a leg up in a part of the nation that isn’t full of bigoted ignorant dumpy lovers, but she didn’t.
I can’t see Florida, land of the insane, to rule anything on her side. That leaves appellate court or the supreme court… and I don’t see those going her way either.
In extreme times like these, bravery and suicidal go hand in hand. She wanted to make a point and she did, despite knowing what’s going to happen. She was not interested in saving her ass, even though she could do it - she chose not to and deserves respect. Some people feel it’s worth it to risk and perhaps even lose their lives for the chance the others will be better off for it. It’s a completely different level of bravery than most people are capable of. Sometimes others get offended by that, because they don’t understand it or feel like it sets a moral standard they cannot fulfill. The truth is, not everyone has to be this way. But let’s at least appreciate it.
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?
They is gender neutral I thought and completely valid when talking about a third person regardless of their gender.
My understanding, and I’m by no means an expert, is that they/them would be used for an unknown gender, or for someone that has chosen those as their preferred pronouns. But in this case, the article and discussion is about a woman, so I think she/her would be the preferred choice.
Using they when you aren’t specifying is fine and any indication otherwise is just virtue signaling. If someone used they despite knowing I use he/him because they don’t know me well, regardless of whether or not it’s stated, it’s not an insult.
You aren’t much more virtuous for using someone’s preferred gender just as you shouldn’t be demonized for not knowing someone doesn’t use “traditional” gender ideology.
Absolutely, and I think jumping on people for making honest mistakes doesn’t help anyone, as with most things it’s the intention that’s key. In this particular case though, I don’t think there was too much ambiguity, and she/her seems to me like the safer bet.
Weird to assume she is unemployable too, tbh.
Seeing that entry level jobs want 5 years of experience (not hyperbole for my industry), nobody is employable.
That anecdote has been around for a long time. But they all hired somebody. Probably somebody without 5 years exp.
This.
Sorry, have two in laws living with me who have been applying for jobs for 14 months without success. If they can’t get jobs here in boston, i’m guessing florida is even worse.
Has nothing to do with her in particular, just the state of how fucked this nation is. Just like what I said originally.
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.
Sorry, have two in laws living with me who have been applying for jobs for 14 months without success. If they can’t get jobs here in boston, i’m guessing florida is even worse.
Has nothing to do with her in particular, just the state of how fucked this nation is. Just like what I said originally.
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)_/¯
You know, it doesn’t hurt to ask me instead of insinuating shit.
Some people are gender abolitionists and prefer they/them for anyone who doesn’t specifically preclude they/them.
Yeah, i’m not that deep into gender politics. I was just talking about somebody I don’t know, have never spoken to, have never met, and i’ve been relying on OP’s news article as my source of truth for all information about her.
She made the choice to be where she is. Here’s hoping she has an actual plan and she’s not just victim #1 like everyone replying to me is implying.
If she was just using the restroom without sending out a press release ahead of time so that cops would be there this would almost certainly not have happened. I just don’t know what this is supposed to accomplish in florida, land of the batshit insane people, especially with everything else bombarding us in the news. I get and agree with the desire to change things back to sanity, but I also know that my opinion is worth about as much as anyone on here.
I dunno, still seems like misgendering someone, just with a different reason for doing so.