The form lets people reporting trans bathroom users submit up to 5 photos even though taking pictures in restrooms is illegal.

Texas’ virulently anti-trans attorney general, Ken Paxton ®, has launched a tip line that allows people to report on suspected trans people they believe are violating the state’s new bathroom ban.

In a statement announcing the tip line, Paxton said the Texas Women’s Privacy Act – which requires people in public buildings to use bathrooms based on sex assigned at birth – “was passed to ensure that women and girls in Texas are protected from mentally ill men wanting to violate their basic right to privacy.”

“It’s absolute insanity that action like this is even needed,” he claimed, “but unfortunately, in the day and age of radical leftism, it is.”

In reality, research has shown no evidence that allowing trans women access to single-sex spaces like bathrooms poses a safety risk to cisgender women.

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    “was passed to ensure that women and girls in Texas are protected from mentally ill men wanting to violate their basic right to privacy.”

    So make it legal to take pictures of women in a private place and send them to mentally ill men?

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    Back in my day taking pictures in a women’s restroom got you arrested … now there is a tip line for it.

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    “It’s absolute insanity that action like this is even needed,” he claimed, “but unfortunately, in the day and age of radical leftism, it is.”

    “Radical leftism” is treating every person like human beings, regardless of their gender, race, religion, or income.

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      I have (unfortunately) way too many family connections to the right, and that’s their way to “cuck the left”. They claim “the left” has gone too far to force them to cede grounds on things one by one. In fact they’re advising new recruits to imagine, that:

      • liberals have banned christianity,
      • liberal secret police have murdered their family members without trial,
      • the moderate liberals are secretly worshipping Stalin, Satan, some infamous pedophile, etc., then to treat the opposition accordingly.
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    A webform you say?.. I wonder what little Bobby Tables would think of that…

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      The modern equivalent is talking Grok, ChatGPT, et al. into filling it in and sending 5 pictures they just fabricated with each submission. Using every image of every right wing tart they can find online as the base image set.

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    last time i checked there was a 250mb limit on attachments and you can attach up to five so feel free to flood their storage with 1gb of word docs each submission. :)

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    Maybe we can let trans people live their lives.

    Instead, let’s report sex offenders. We could upload the epstein files to the tipline - apparently evety black rectangle represents a sexual assault committed by Trump.

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    So they want right-wing pedos and creeps to creep on strangers in public spaces because… somehow doing exactly that isn’t already illegal? Huh?

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    Texas unveils “tip line” to send nonconsentual photos of naked woman to their elected officials.

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    I’m looking forward to the invasion of privacy lawsuits that will come as a result of this.

    And I hope every motherfucker that takes a single picture is publicly listed as a sex offender.