Houston voters reject transgender anti-discrimination prop

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What you had to endure was total bullsh*t. I'm sorry you had to go through it.

No, they are both examples of despised minorities whose rights are violated.
And how is someone supposed to prove they are "genuine trans?" Are they supposed to carry with them a note from their psychologist? Again, there is no evidence that trans persons had ever sexually assaulted someone in a restroom. From the Anti-trans campaign, you'd think this proposed law would have made sexual assault in a restroom unprosecutable - this is a blatant lie by the right.
And regarding another poster who claimed trans rights drive a wedge between society and genuine gay rights - no, this is simply expanding civil rights to other marginalized groups who deserve their due.

Being born with a different sex is a disability, whereas being born from people that evolved somewhere else on the planet isn't. The latter is entirely prejudice when we're talking about the same sex bathrooms being used, whereas the former needs a burden of proof for it to be genuine (you know, it is a mental disorder, right?). It's prejudice with that if the person is genuinely transgender and they're then barred simply for that reason.

A note? That'd be a good idea. We have "notes" for people that use disabled parking and bathrooms, after all. There's plenty of people that don't look disabled but need to use disability parking.

Perhaps we should just let people park in the disabled space because they think they're disabled, right? Or, we give people a disability pension for the same reason? This is the same thing as letting anyone use a facility simply by them saying they are this or that.

This is the way you go about it that is fair for everyone, not just for one of the two groups.

E: ironically, this way is actually more fair for those with transgenderism. It removes a lot of doubt when people say they have something if there's official documentation.

Transgender people are mentally ill? No, they aren't even disabled due to being transgender. I have never heard a trans person refer to themselves as disabled (and yes, my wife and I are friends with a transwoman).
Instead of accommodating disabled persons rather than requiring them to prove their disability, for arguments sake, think of the situation where they are just banned outright from public facilities, because they might make others feel uncomfortable. Well, that situation is wrong. Same if that were done to persons of different races.

What's the bold supposed to mean?