Just a note for the next time anyone schedules a conference in Texas:
It is now literally illegal for trans people to use the bathroom there.
Your trans friends and colleagues are going to be silently judging you for hosting events in a place it's illegal for them to exist when there's lots of other states to pick from.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/24/texas-trans-bathroom-bill
@puppygirlhornypost2 @JessTheUnstill
My mom doesn't really get why I wont go see her in Texas either.
"Oh, you will be fine." Is all I get to my concerns.
If you have to pee, just wet your pants in front of other people and own it. Assert dominance. Make the bigots uncomfortable seeing a huge wet spot on the front of your pants. (and maybe even smelling it too) Secretly wear a diaper if you need to. Make the bigots regret forcing trans people out of the bathrooms.
@RachaelAva1024 @JessTheUnstill
So...I should humiliate myself and give up all my dignity to... *Checks notes* Own the cons?
@JessTheUnstill oh, not me.
I'm going to be judging people VERY VERY LOUDLY. EXTREMELY LOUDLY. WITH A MEGAPHONE AND LARGE PRINTED BANNERS.
If it's an international conference, you shouldn't have it anywhere in the US
@JessTheUnstill Yeah, one of our teammates had to drop out of our away game vs El Paso Roller Derby. The host league would have probably been super accommodating to all, because that's how WFTDA roller derby rolls, but when you can't fly in to the damn state because the bathrooms in the airport are off limits to you, it's not much help.
Personal opinion: This wasn't unpredictable. We should have never agreed to a game in Texas in the first place, not given the current political climate.
@kitten_tech @JessTheUnstill Depends
If an employer uses the UK Governments Disclosure & Barring Service to vet job applicants then the employer will know if an applicant is trans
They'll need to be told every name the applicant has had along with documentation on the change for one
This applies to security work, work with vulnerable people, banking & lots of other categories
Also if a birth certificate is offered as a primary ID it has to have been issued within 12 months of birth
@kitten_tech @JessTheUnstill not since our own laws ruled that trans women aren't really women and bigots changed the equalities advice to say trans women shouldn't pee in women's bathrooms.
Like, the law does not state that it is illegal, but you're not gonna get protections on that basis any more. The present sucks.
Fun fact: In Ohio the law is that a venue can choose to make all their bathrooms unisex. The business interests fought these laws in Ohio, so they had to limit their 2024 law to public schools or the bill wouldn't pass. The legislation that resulted is, shall we say, a topic of ongoing absurdity. 
@JessTheUnstill Someone should ask them what they think goes on in bathrooms, because these bans are so stupid.
bathrooms is the place you go to piss and shit, that is all that ever goes on in there. Nothing more nothing less.
Texas joins states that are bringing back the petty humiliations of Jim Crow.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/transgender-ban-bathrooms-north-carolina-civil-rights
https://epgn.com/2024/03/28/the-inhumanity-of-transgender-bathroom-discrimination/
Bathroom & Bedroom Politics -- the hallmark of white supremacist dictatorships.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedom-riders-jim-crow-laws/
https://time.com/5527029/jim-crow-plessy-history/
https://medium.com/@rikiwilchins/a-brief-history-of-bathroom-panics-e873405df2da
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