As far as I can see, the article doesn’t misrepresent this law. It says that anyone has standing to sue a trans person for using a gender-appropriate bathroom, and the damages of at least $10,000 would be awarded if the trans person lost the lawsuit. Normally, as I understand it, you wouldn’t have standing unless someone’s activity had provably harmed you, but by waiving this the door is open for the trans person’s use of a bathroom to be judged harmful in itself. So, a bounty on trans people.
This is in a similar legal realm as the abortion bounty. There are a lot of legal experts who claim that there is no standing, while the conservative judges have held that it is a harm against society at large. So any member of society has standing.
It’s a twisted and dangerous legal framework to establish. It’s already been used to attack the second amendment as well. It’s not good for any political side.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/odessa-tx-just-put-10000-bounties
As far as I can see, the article doesn’t misrepresent this law. It says that anyone has standing to sue a trans person for using a gender-appropriate bathroom, and the damages of at least $10,000 would be awarded if the trans person lost the lawsuit. Normally, as I understand it, you wouldn’t have standing unless someone’s activity had provably harmed you, but by waiving this the door is open for the trans person’s use of a bathroom to be judged harmful in itself. So, a bounty on trans people.
This is in a similar legal realm as the abortion bounty. There are a lot of legal experts who claim that there is no standing, while the conservative judges have held that it is a harm against society at large. So any member of society has standing.
It’s a twisted and dangerous legal framework to establish. It’s already been used to attack the second amendment as well. It’s not good for any political side.