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Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement (apnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation.

The onslaught has led the state official tasked by law with managing the tip line, Utah Auditor John Dougall, to bemoan getting stuck with the cumbersome task of filtering through fake complaints while also facing backlash for enforcing a law he had no role in passing.

“No auditor goes into auditing so they can be the bathroom monitors,” Dougall said Tuesday. “I think there were much better ways for the Legislature to go about addressing their concerns, rather than this ham-handed approach.”

In the week since it launched, the online tip line already has received more than 10,000 submissions, none of which seem legitimate, he said. The form asks people to report public school employees who knowingly allow someone to use a facility designated for the opposite sex.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I think there were much better ways for the Legislature to go about addressing their concerns, rather than this ham-handed approach.

You mean the made up concerns about trans women in bathrooms that have no basis whatsoever in reality? Maybe the legislature should be more concerned with improving the lives of their constituents, or the fact that Utah has one of the highest CSA rates in the country.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I feel like this was the point of the protest as well. Squeeze the squishy, parts of the system/laws. In this case one single human that manages a lever of that system. Have them speak in objection against the law, then tell the people what it's realty about.

Mission accomplished in my opinion. All the weak parts are exposed and it's absurdity is up for demonstration.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did they not get numbers for the other 19 states?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sadly no, as some states don't have data for all the years or choose to not participate altogether. One example is Florida, which recently withdrew from the survey because they had "grave concerns" about the survey’s "inflammatory and sexualized" content: https://www.floridapolicy.org/posts/its-time-to-reinstate-the-youth-risk-behavior-survey

You can see the results for all available states and years here though: https://nccd.cdc.gov/Youthonline/App/Results.aspx?TT=K&OUT=0&SID=HS&QID=H20&LID=LL&YID=YY&LID2=&YID2=&COL=T&ROW1=N&ROW2=N&HT=QQ&LCT=LL&FS=S1&FR=R1&FG=G1&FA=A1&FI=I1&FP=P1&FSL=S1&FRL=R1&FGL=G1&FAL=A1&FIL=I1&FPL=P1&PV=&TST=&C1=&C2=&QP=G&DP=1&VA=CI&CS=Y&SYID=&EYID=&SC=DEFAULT&SO=ASC