Welcome to New York, where restaurant owners will no longer be allowed to require male diners to wear ties and gyms can’t tell men to get out of the women’s locker room or bathroom.
They’re even trying to control business owners and employees’ free speech. Violators that call a woman “Ma’am” when she prefers “Sir,” could face up to $250,000 in fines per violation.
New York City’s Human Rights Commission is establishing guidelines on gender-identity discrimination, releasing specifics Monday to flesh out broad protections for self-identified transsexuals.
The guidelines apply to many businesses, landlords and employers. Public schools already have their own, somewhat similar rules.
Groups representing restaurateurs and landlords didn’t immediately respond to inquiries about the new provisions, nor did a major fitness-center chain.
Besides overall bans on discrimination in housing and hiring, the new guidelines forbid such specifics as balking at using the personal pronoun of someone’s choice — “Ms.” or “Mr.,” for instance.
The rules also declare that transgender people can’t be denied access to the restroom or locker room where they say their gender identity belongs, determined at the transgender person’s sole discretion.
Objections from fellow patrons or employees that feel uncomfortable dressing or using the bathroom around the other sex “are not a lawful reason to deny access,” the guidelines say.
New York’s rules also address topics ranging from health coverage to employee dress codes. They needn’t be reduced to one unisex outfit, but a business can no longer require suits for men, for instance.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
If he’s in the girl’s locker room and he gets a boner, he doesn’t think he’s a girl.
I doubt that a male would get one of those things if he was in there to pee not to see.
Don’t change the rhyming scheme. It doesn’t work unless the two words rhyme.
Well you elected a Moron like Dblowmeo what do you expect. Maybe the idiot electorate in New York need to stand up and make better decisions in the future. I don’t feel sorry for them. I used to live Illinois and got tired of the craziness and overwhelming taxes. I tried to change things to no avail. So I moved 5 miles East to a place that is tax payer friendly and doesn’t have the insanity in Illinois.
exactly….democrats are non persons in my world
Annise Parker, a lesbian and ex mayor of Houston, Texas pushed HERO and it was soundly defeated and the NEW mayor Sylvester TURNER (d) and black…JUST may try this get this horrible thing passed, ( transgender neutral restrooms ) What is this world coming to?…oh wait I know…as “O” said, he was going to fundamentally CHANGE America…and he trying his best to do so…
Jeff: It sounds like a smart move to me. I agree with you, idiots voting in idiots must live by idiot rules. This is just another move to huddle the masses. The huddled masses can easily be used as useful idiots. I could never comply with anything this stupid simply because of my respect for women’s right to privacy.
I just wonder how long it’s going to take for the “lift the seat, put the seat back down” argument to start! I guarantee, if it’s an issue at home, it sure is going to be an issue in a public facility. I don’t want to go in to the stall, only to find the seat up, or worse … pee sprinkles on the seat. Those little paper “seat protectors” are so thin, they’ll just get wet if you put one down on top of the pee drops. These libs better be careful what they wish for. They sure have a knack for creating problems that didn’t used to exist until they forced their idiotic ideas onto everyone else.
I think New Yorkers are getting exactly what they Vote for.
If it was my establishment, they would have to use the men’s bathroom or go somewhere else to try and enforce your sick behavior!!
If I had to use that restroom I would have my husband or friend guard the door until I came out of the restroom.
Either use the Men’s bathroom or say away!!
If a man came into the restroom I was using, he-she would get a swift kick in the genitals!!!
Making the outlawed requests and using the outlawed titles used to be recognizable as exercises in freedom of speech but not now. Now they are recognizable only as “hate” speech? Hmm. I think I smell a rat.
This is BULLsheet … or COWsheet, as the case may be.
Please, don’t disparage bulls and cows. Their dung is clean until it hits the ground. Call this PC crap what it is…. politician shit! And it is dirty, smelly, and offensive when it comes out of their lying mouths!!
I agree, if it’s got a dick use the mens potty
I you got a pussy you go in the LADIES room
NO FAGS in either room
How much more stupid can these lib idiots get ?
New York City was going in a positive direction until DeBlasio took office. Crime is up. Two bozo’s from Boston, Mayor DeBlasio and police commissioner Bratton have put the brakes on NYC’s improvements of the past 20 years.
All this could be solved by physiology!
Clearly mark public restrooms with a “P” or a “V”!
Humans generally have one or the other – go through the correct door dummy!
That,s great idea.
Where else. Would they come from But! Boston?’ Helloooo?
Now they’re getting CRAZY ! Men are men and Women are women. Go to the appropriate bathroom!!!
A simple solution. If the door of the bathroom has a penis symbol only penis’s are allowed, and so be it with women in the
vagina designated door. FIXED
Simply force those that are pushing this law to have their women in the bath rooms with these people and see how they like it.
How many people are going to get put in the hospital over this one? It’s only a matter of time.
i was born and raised in Brooklyn,New York, (1940′ and 50’s). i am very glad i had the good sense to get out of there when i did.
you left too soon! property values are up 25 fold in Brooklyn since then! The real people still live in the outer boroughs!
wait depending on the neighborhood it could be more like 40 fold!
THE SMALLER THE GOVERNMENT THE SAFER THE PEOPLE. IF THE CITY HAS TIME FOR MICKEY MOUSE BS AND THE LAST SORRY MAYOR WAS RUNNING AROUND TOWN WITH HIS 32 OUNCE PEE SAMPLE INSPECTION CUP. WE HAVE TOO MANY DO NOTHINGS.
DEATH TO THE INVADERS.
WHAT A CROCK OF CRAP!!!!!!! If you were born a male and have all the male organs, you should use the men’s room! Just because YOU are comfortable going to the ladies room to do your business, doesn’t mean the REST of us are comfortable with it!!!!!!!! And if you are female, the same goes for you!!!!! I don’t believe for ONE minute that GOD makes any mistakes!!!!!!!!
If you are a male bent gender and you approach the ladies room, and there is a man standing in front of it, it will be cause there is a wife or daughter of that man in the restroom, attempting to enter until he leaves will get you shot.
Deblasio & Bratton are 2 brain dead insensitive to the average law abiding citizens.They are always pandering to the criminals & sick lowlife members of society.Bratton get your nose out of Deblasio ‘s rear end. It’s embarrassing
It doesn’t suprise me as New York has a twisted mentality.
Here’s a solution that respects trans views and also protects everybody else’s rights, make all bathrooms and showers private. Yes this would take up more room and cost more money but everybody except the perverts get their way.
This is more liberal insanity.
Just another reason to stay away from New York. First they take your guns, then censorship of speech begins.
I’m not going in a mixed bathroom I may just boycott any who has them, that how attacks happen
This is one more reason among a great number for me and I hope a large number of real Americans to stay out of NYC and New York in general. The hostile atmosphere wreaks of dripping liberalism which is similar to a hideous cancerous growth that is trying to kill you. So, I suggest that all who read this use your social media skills to let everyone boycott this reprehensible state.
Forbidding rest rooms to be segregated by sex is a logical out growth of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Another state I can mark off to visit. My wife and I expect to use a restroom of the same sex as our self. Can you imagine a woman going in after a Transgender with pee all over the seat bad enough it happens in the men’s room but now the ladies room. Oh well that’s NY
time for a clean sweep of all the politicians in NYC I mean all. a cell in sing sing would solve a lot of problems. There are some sickos who call themselves leaders. Cuomo, Bloomberg, Di Blasio and the list goes on Al Sharpton, Farrakhan What a sick place.
The inmates really are running the asylum! Tell you what, if my wife HAD to use the restroom I would be standing right at the door and dare any male to try and use that restroom. He would never make it past the doorway. We need to get back to being a moral Nation and away from this asinine liberal whatever the few want, they get. Common decency should prevail in his nation.
I don’t like lesbians and qay people, They are very very nasty. All of them are sure disguising people. I don’t want their dirty disease.
What happens to them? They think they own to world. I will keep my kids and pets away from them.
God help them.?
New York City might be tied with San Francisco and Chicago as the # 1 place in America to stay the hell away from. If you live there, MOVE! I did. 40 years ago. I never regretted it.