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In what could be one of the first arrests under a bathroom bill lawmakers passed in 2023, Florida police earlier this month jailed a transgender woman who washed her hands in a women’s restroom at the Capitol. Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old Illinois resident, was arrested by Capitol police March 19 on a trespassing charge after she alerted state officials that she planned to use the bathroom in protest of the law.

Lawmakers in 2023 passed legislation making it a criminal offense for some people to use restrooms in correctional facilities, schools or public buildings that don’t match their sex at birth. Rheintgen calls Florida a “home away from home” and said she felt disturbed at the idea she could be targeted for using a women’s restroom. She sent letters earlier in March to Florida lawmakers warning them that she planned to use a specific women’s bathroom in the Capitol and included a photo of herself for identification. “I know that you know in your heart that this law is wrong and unjust,” Rheintgen said in her letter. “I know that you know in your heart that transgender people are human too, and you can’t arrest us away.” “I know that you know that I have dignity,” Rheintgen said. “That’s why I know that you won’t arrest me.” On the day Rheintgen planned to use the bathroom, she was met outside by two officers who said they would try to work with her. Rheintgen decided to use the bathroom anyway. Officers in the restroom told Rheintgen that they would issue her a notice to appear in front of a judge, which would avoid her being sent to jail. They ended up arresting her instead.

According to the arrest affidavit, officers said Rheintgen didn’t meet the criteria for a notice to appear. Rheintgen said she was a little bit “sassy” when the officers were talking to her, and she said she implied she might use the women’s restroom again. The trespass charge is a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail.

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by Ponderer on April 8, 2025 8:57 am God bless her. She's a civil rights warrior. by Ponderer on April 8, 2025 9:05 am I'm envisioning a large group of civilly disobedient trans women who descend upon this state capitol, having given prior notice of their intentions to use the women's restroom facility there. They all line up outside the restroom and go in one by one, where they are met by police who arrest them and take them into custody one by one... Since the civil rights movement, here has never been more need for civil disobedience in this country than now. Not just for trans folk, but for democracy loving Americans of all persuasions. This is supposed to be America. Not North Korea. by oldedude on April 8, 2025 9:18 am This is supposed to be America. Not North Korea. Thank God! They'd "reindoctrinate" or kill her in DPRK because of "purity standards." by HatetheSwamp on April 8, 2025 9:19 am Clearly, Mr Rheintgen is an attention hoe... a Rosa Parks of the 21st century wannabe. Riley Gaines could take him in a nanosecond! by oldedude on April 8, 2025 9:30 am Po- The flip side is that she did it to get arrested and prove a point. My other thought is "is there a "unisex" or "family" restroom? I don't know that answer to be fair to you. Not an argument. It just seems strange to me... by HatetheSwamp on April 8, 2025 9:38 am po, I repeat. Woke hegemony is done. Your Mr Rheintgen ain't gunna be Rosa. Your day is over. America has rediscovered biology. WE THE PEOPLE... trust the science... again. by Ponderer on April 8, 2025 9:41 am "Po- The flip side is that she did it to get arrested and prove a point. My other thought is "is there a "unisex" or "family" restroom? I don't know that answer to be fair to you. Not an argument. It just seems strange to me..." -olde dude You're missing the entire point, od. There were other places that black people could eat besides that Woolworth's lunch counter too. Fair would be allowing trans people to use public restrooms like they have been using them for decades now with no negative repercussions at all until the MAGA Hat Right started fucking with them. This is exactly what civil rights paragon John Lewes called getting in "Good Trouble". by Ponderer on April 8, 2025 9:46 am And with those trans women should be a contingent of trans men in the line too. They will be entirely complying with the law and will show the absurdity of what complying with the law looks like... by Ponderer on April 8, 2025 9:48 am Dear GOD how Hate would have made such a tremendously devoted Nazi. Cheering on the Brown Shirts as they hauled away gays and lesbians to the gas chambers... by HatetheSwamp on April 8, 2025 10:11 am No, po. That's how times have changed. LGBs have won their battle. They, in fact, lead the fight against you TQs. pb's three-headed monster: 2. Anti-TQ LGB groups and activists who are becoming increasingly influential. Did you know? GAG is pret'near up to half million followers on X? x.com by Indy! on April 8, 2025 10:58 am If memory serves (and Pondy or Donna can straighten me out if not... pun intended), LGB(+) groups are not opposed to trans rights - they just don't believe they should be bundled together with LGB folks because they are two different categories. But if even YOU can see the Rosa Parks analogy, Brown Shorts? Then it CERTAINLY must be true. by Donna on April 8, 2025 12:27 pm It depends on the gay person. They aren't a monolith. by HatetheSwamp on April 8, 2025 12:33 pm You're right, Donna, no doubt, but what I'm seeing is that, suddenly, today, it's the anti-TQ LGBs who are organized and motivated. The GAG gang campaigned for Trump. by Donna on April 8, 2025 12:49 pm I really don't give a flying fuck. by HatetheSwamp on April 8, 2025 2:35 pm Donna, It impacts you more directly than ole pb. by oldedude on April 8, 2025 2:50 pm po- I didn't miss your point. My point is that she wanted to be arrested to make a point. She got arrested. yea for her. Not impressed. by Donna on April 8, 2025 4:14 pm That you would even think that she did this to impress you is emblematic of your pathetically demented ego, od. You and Hate have really turned into the scummiest, most disgusting excuses for human beings around. And all to service, support, and defend your psychopathic, immoral, treasonous and megalomaniacal golden god. And you say I am the one with TDS. You two luxuriantly wallow in your own putrescence. You are gleefully proud of your ignorance and your despicable bigotry. None of Trump's inhumanity is too sadistic for you two fucking assholes not to bow down to and worship as holy. No crime against the Constitution of the United States too brazen for you not to champion. You two are gregariously amongst the group of the worst enemies that this country has ever faced. Please consider fucking yourselves with anything too big to fit. by Ponderer on April 8, 2025 4:15 pm That was of course me. 🖕😠🖕 by oldedude on April 8, 2025 4:33 pm Whomever in the fuck I'm replying to. I'm sorry if she meets your definition of "martyrdom." It just doesn't for me. Nothing to get your panties in a wad over. If you want to be a total psychopath over it, that's on you. I thought I actually answered in a reasonable fashion. You don't like it? I don't really care. I just consider the source and the TPS it has. by HatetheSwamp on April 9, 2025 4:22 am "And you say I am the one with TDS." This has nothing to do with Trump. I believe in biology and I respect the right of XX persons to their safe spaces. by Ponderer on April 9, 2025 7:08 am "If memory serves (and Pondy or Donna can straighten me out if not... pun intended), LGB(+) groups are not opposed to trans rights - they just don't believe they should be bundled together with LGB folks because they are two different categories." -Indy! Just like in any assemblage of people in this world, there are gay, lesbian, and bi people who are as rabidly bigoted and transphobic as Hate and the bulk of the rest of ignorant MAGA Hats are. Bigotry, hate, and ignorance are not limited to just Trump voters. It's a human thing. They exist in all populations. It has been the bane of humanity that there are always people like Hate and his MAGA Hat compatriots to stifle the growth of humanity. Our species would be centuries ahead of where we are in so many things if not for them. It's like they only exist, like they were only put here to keep humanity from growing and becoming too enlightened. To keep us in a perpetual state of animalistic chaos and ignorance, never living up to or ever achieving our potential. America got waaaaay too close to being a place where people could express themselves and reach their true potentials of learning and living life as free beings. Something about this Universe does not want that happening. It never has. We are in a period like when the ancient Library of Alexandria was burned. Like the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths. The Medieval church murdering those who try to tell the truth about the universe. Humanity seems to only be allowed to progress so far before the ignorant, hateful, and worst parts of humanity are turned on the rest of us to halt any progress. It's an ancient cycle of growth and self-destruction that we have been stuck in for millennia. by HatetheSwamp on April 9, 2025 3:17 pm Just like in any assemblage of people in this world, there are gay, lesbian, and bi people who are as rabidly bigoted and transphobic as Hate and the bulk of the rest of ignorant MAGA Hats are. Bigoted. Transphobic. Apparently, po has no idea what is going on with those anti-TQ LGB groups and activists. GAG founder Jaimee Michell is their Apostles Paul, their organizer and evangelist. Her story is simple. She was a tomboy. From childhood TQs and woke LGBs harassed her and, repeatedly, attempted to groom her. In time, she understood that she was a lesbian, plain and simple. Born in the right body. And, not so long ago, she came out as "the gay who strayed...," strayed from the woke LGBTQ mafia. And, many tens of thousands of LGBs are saying, "That's my story, too." By now, there are many more LGBs who have been bruised and wounded by po and that ilk than all the gender dysphorics and autogynephiles combined. That, po, is why you're losing and will lose. by ROB3RT on April 10, 2025 7:56 pm So often we hear trans people give two reasons that males experiencing gender dysphoria should be able to use female restrooms. The first is because they're only in the restroom to take care of a biological function, and the second is because it would be unsafe to use a men's room. It's curious that neither was the case with Rheintgen. There was no safety risk for Rheintgen to use a men's room in the Florida capital building since there was obviously security all around, and Rheintgen didn't even use the restroom to take care of a bodily function. Just a little hand-washing. This was all about posturing. (Memo to male sex offenders: You can now hang out in women's restrooms as long as you claim you identify as female and pretend you need to wash your hands.) by HatetheSwamp on April 11, 2025 3:50 am The truth that, here on SS, Donna, especially, won't accept, is that trans people come in two flavors. 1. Gender dysphorics, which po and Donna claim to be, but who knows, because the others are liars, by definition. And, 2. Autogynephiles, who absolutely must be banned from women's restrooms. The problem is, gender dysphorics can't tell us how to spot an autogynephile attempting to enter a women's safe space... ... and, woke hegemony is dead. Go To Top

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