Bathroom Bills Are Intended to Suppress Trans Life
They will require little or no proof
Often, a society realizes a law is too strict, so the society thinks of ways to avoid enforcement.
In Biblical times, the law said that if a woman who’s engaged or married has consensual sex with anyone other than the man who claims rights over her (i.e., someone who isn’t her fiancé/husband, Deut 22:13:29), they should both receive a death sentence. Realistically, people were reluctant to execute each other for this reason. Maybe they didn’t like the sexism (since married men faced no such Biblical penalty for consensual sex with unmarried women). Maybe they worried that if they killed everyone who had illicit sex, no one would be left alive. Maybe they didn’t want to get their hands dirty and had other jobs, like watering the crops.
Anyway, the rabbis had a way of getting around it, as rabbis generally did. First, someone had to warn the woman not to see a particular man, and two other people had to hear this warning; then, if the woman and the man went on to have an affair despite having been warned, and their sexual encounter was observed by two other people, the capital case could proceed. All witnesses of course would have to be willing to testify, and we might suppose the woman’s fiancé or husband, whose “property” rights were at issue…
