Bathroom Bills Are Back — Broader and Stricter — In Several States - KFF Health News
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State lawmakers are resurrecting and expanding efforts to prohibit transgender people from using public restrooms and other spaces that match their gender. Some have sought to ban trans people from “sex-designated spaces,” including domestic violence shelters and crisis centers, which experts say could violate anti-discrimination laws and jeopardize federal funding.

Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at birth.

At least one bill goes so far as making it a crime for a transgender person to enter a facility that doesn’t match the sex listed on their birth certificate.

The debate has been popping up in statehouses across the nation in recent months, predominantly in conservative, rural states, including at a hearing of the Arizona Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee in February. Proponents of that state’s SB 1628, which defines “male,” “female,” and other terms through rigid definitions of biological sex, argued that women’s rights are at stake. Opponents disagreed and said the language would erase transgender people from state statute and remove legal protections.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    Restrooms should all just be sexless/genderless anyways, why are they restricted in the first place? We’re all just doing gross stuff in there, regardless if you’re a man, woman, transgender or anything else on the spectrum. I’ve seen men that are the avatars of hygiene and meticulous about cleanliness and I’ve seen women that are absolute slobs and disgusting pigs, and I’ve seen the reverse. Anyone saying that any sex/gender is cleaner or more proper/trustworthy than the other one is being sexist. Just make one set of restrooms for everyone and fuck all this segregated restroom shit.