The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe:
“What happens when you mix politics, bathrooms, and sexuality? Let the joking begin.
“A politician walks into a transgender bar. [Fill in the blank here.] Afterwards, he tries to explain: “I really only wanted to use the bathroom.”
“Ha ha. But the serious business is the busybody politicians in North Carolina and Tennessee who have floated legislation specifying genitalia requirements for bathroom use.
“Much of this is political tit-for-tat. Some petty authoritarian politicians, mostly Democrats, passed legislation forcing Christian bakers to make cakes for gay couples’ weddings. So now some Republicans — in the best tradition of political small-mindedness — retaliate with legislation barring transgendered persons from using the bathrooms of their choice …” [Read more here.]
Previous column in The Good Life series: Third-Way Politics and Its Bitter Fruits.