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Demovictory9

(36,804 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:12 PM Tuesday

Military will continuously monitor bathrooms for biological sex compliance

Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order

https://www.404media.co/pentagon-says-it-will-continuously-monitor-bathrooms-to-comply-with-anti-trans-order/

Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense sent the White House an 11-page memo about the steps it has taken to comply with Donald Trump’s anti-trans executive order, according to a copy of the memo obtained by 404 Media using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Among dozens of other actions, the Pentagon said that it not only changed the signs on bathroom doors to “reflect biological sex” but that it will continue to “monitor intimate spaces to ensure ongoing compliance” and that it will “continuously evaluate and update intimate spaces as necessary.”

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Military will continuously monitor bathrooms for biological sex compliance (Original Post) Demovictory9 Tuesday OP
Creeps. enough Tuesday #1
Wtaf? SheltieLover Tuesday #2
Peeking under the stall Demovictory9 Tuesday #5
Wtf is with their bathroom obsession? SheltieLover Tuesday #9
They are perverts I_UndergroundPanther Tuesday #19
Hi Panther! How are you & Othello doing? SheltieLover Tuesday #21
US troops spied upon the in the bathroom. Irish_Dem Tuesday #3
all because of Cadet Bonespurs Skittles Tuesday #7
And who loves to watch women in dressing rooms. Irish_Dem Tuesday #8
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT Skittles Tuesday #10
Those groups are quite scared now and being harassed. Irish_Dem Tuesday #11
yes Skittles Tuesday #12
Yes I am seeing the same thing. Irish_Dem Tuesday #15
heartbreaking Skittles Tuesday #16
Every day it seems like another brand of terror is unleashed on some faction of allegorical oracle Tuesday #20
I know, it is hard to believe that a once proud country has turned into a shithole country right before our eyes, Irish_Dem Yesterday #24
I'm American by location only... MiHale Yesterday #27
If I was traveling overseas I would not admit to being an American. Irish_Dem Yesterday #29
Totally different circumstances... SickOfTheOnePct Yesterday #28
Drug abuse in the US military is a legit national security issue and a safety one. Irish_Dem Yesterday #30
I don't disagree at all on the drug testing SickOfTheOnePct Yesterday #31
who is creepier - Trump or Hegseth Skittles Tuesday #4
So some military personnel will be deployed as crotch monitors Ocelot II Tuesday #6
Will the crotch monitors be masked? travelingthrulife Tuesday #14
The crotch monitors will be the only ones with crotch privacy. Irish_Dem Yesterday #25
They don't notice the treason but they can protect us against trans people in the bathroom. travelingthrulife Tuesday #13
By focusing on who uses the bathroom, they hope we don't notice their high treason. Irish_Dem Yesterday #26
Pee Pee Pete pretending to work. JHB Tuesday #17
Good satire J_William_Ryan Tuesday #18
Don't check my stall unless they plan to Captain Zero Tuesday #22
They could take Ron Desantis fujiyamasan Tuesday #23
'signs on bathroom doors to "reflect biological sex"' - what, pictures of babies' genitalia? muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #32

Irish_Dem

(72,599 posts)
3. US troops spied upon the in the bathroom.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:21 PM
Tuesday

US military being forced to be perverts and voyeurs.

Skittles

(166,154 posts)
10. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:56 PM
Tuesday

OMFG I cannot believe the nightmare we are in.....I think about how sick and outraged I feel about what is being done to my country and then I wonder how it would feel to be brown, or trans, or a Federal worker, omg I could go on and on

Irish_Dem

(72,599 posts)
11. Those groups are quite scared now and being harassed.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:06 PM
Tuesday

I know, I am deeply ashamed to be an American right now.

Skittles

(166,154 posts)
12. yes
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:08 PM
Tuesday

I know some immigrants - there is simply no justification for what they are being put through.....and anyone who SUPPORTS this nazi bullshit should be ASHAMED.

Irish_Dem

(72,599 posts)
15. Yes I am seeing the same thing.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:22 PM
Tuesday

I have some immigrant neighbors.
I used to walk with them for exercise and go out to lunch for fun.

They no longer show their faces outside.
They won't even answer my texts.

They are too afraid.

I also know a naturalized US citizen, she has been here since she was a toddler.
The state dept won't renew her passport with one excuse after another.
This is a person with an unblemished record and works in healthcare.
Now she is not allowed to travel outside the country.

Skittles

(166,154 posts)
16. heartbreaking
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:25 PM
Tuesday

they also tell me it's hard to know who to trust, and what a relief it is to know people who absolutely despise Trump

allegorical oracle

(5,397 posts)
20. Every day it seems like another brand of terror is unleashed on some faction of
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:23 PM
Tuesday

the population. Never thought it could happen here in our country.

Irish_Dem

(72,599 posts)
24. I know, it is hard to believe that a once proud country has turned into a shithole country right before our eyes,
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 04:28 AM
Yesterday

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,032 posts)
28. Totally different circumstances...
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:22 AM
Yesterday

...but the U.S. military (the Air Force, at least) has literally been watching people in the bathrooms for decades during drug testing.

It's completely demeaning - stall door has to be open, and someone has to actually watch them pee into the cup for the test, then take the cup from them.

Irish_Dem

(72,599 posts)
30. Drug abuse in the US military is a legit national security issue and a safety one.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:57 AM
Yesterday

100% I support drug testing the troops.

Do you want to be the aircrew on a bomber or fighter jet with the pilot high on drugs?

Do you want the officers in charge of the nuclear arsenal to be drunk all the time?

If you are out on the combat field and the guy next to you who is supposed to have
your back and save your life is passed out due to drug usage?

If people don't want to follow rules which saves their lives they need to find
another line of work that is not so taxing.

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,032 posts)
31. I don't disagree at all on the drug testing
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:10 AM
Yesterday

They absolutely need to do it; for me, it was more the way they did it. Every place else manages to take urine samples without having someone literally standing 3 feet from you, watching you pee into a cup.

For me personally, being the watchee wasn't as bad as being tagged to be the watcher.

Ocelot II

(126,114 posts)
6. So some military personnel will be deployed as crotch monitors
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:28 PM
Tuesday

in the bathrooms at all military installations? What if a superior officer refuses to display his/her junk to Cpl. Groinguard? Can the crotch monitor require him/her to obey? Or will there be cameras everywhere, including in the stalls and focused at groin level, while somewhere there are banks of computer screens that people are watching for signs of nonconforming genitalia? What if someone has had gender reassignment surgery; will they be examined more closely for tell-tale scars? Will Crotch Monitor appear on their DD-214 forms when the people assigned to this duty leave military service?

Irish_Dem

(72,599 posts)
25. The crotch monitors will be the only ones with crotch privacy.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 04:31 AM
Yesterday

They will wear face and crotch masks.

travelingthrulife

(2,906 posts)
13. They don't notice the treason but they can protect us against trans people in the bathroom.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:08 PM
Tuesday

Morons.

Irish_Dem

(72,599 posts)
26. By focusing on who uses the bathroom, they hope we don't notice their high treason.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 04:32 AM
Yesterday

Selling us out to Putin, destroying US democracy and the federal govt.

fujiyamasan

(492 posts)
23. They could take Ron Desantis
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:50 PM
Tuesday

After all didn’t he handle urine samples? I’m sure he’d make a great bathroom inspector. Go back to his roots.

I can’t believe this is a thing. Real “warrior culture”.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,171 posts)
32. 'signs on bathroom doors to "reflect biological sex"' - what, pictures of babies' genitalia?
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:32 AM
Yesterday

I mean, that's the standard they say is the only one that counts - the appearance of everyone's genitals at birth.

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