Utah’s Republican-controlled House voted Friday to pass a sweeping proposal to keep transgender people out of restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity in taxpayer-funded building…

Utah’s Republican-controlled House voted Friday to pass a sweeping proposal to keep transgender people out of restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity in taxpayer-funded buildings, sending the measure to the state’s majority GOP Senate for consideration just three days after the start of the session.

House Bill 257 aims to prohibit individuals from using gender-designated facilities that differ from their sex assigned at birth in government buildings, correctional facilities and domestic violence shelters unless they have undergone a transition-related surgery and legally amended the sex on their birth certificate.

The proposal would require new government buildings to include single-occupant restrooms and changing rooms while existing ones must be studied to assess “the feasibility of retrofitting or remodeling” facilities to improve privacy.

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The bill, if passed, would make Utah the third state to adopt explicit restrictions on transgender bathroom use in buildings other than schools. A Florida law passed last year prevents transgender people from using facilities consistent with their gender identity in all government-owned buildings, and a North Dakota law restricts bathroom use in correctional facilities.

  • oDDmON@lemmy.world
    914·
    10 months ago

    Uhhh, once the door closes, HOW DO YOU KNOW IF A TRANS PERSON IS IN THERE?

    Wouldn’t surprise me if they tried sending people with mirrors on sticks into johns, to save the children of course.

    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
      56·
      10 months ago

      They don’t give a shit about logistics of this, they just care that people who vote for them will cheer.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      They don’t. They’re just going to use it as an excuse to harass and persecute a whole bunch of masculine-looking cis women.

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
      9·
      10 months ago

      There’s a post I saw about a transgender (I forgot which way let’s just say woman) went into the men’s bathroom and someone (or multiple people) thought she was a trans man and beat her up, DESPITE HER DOING EXACTLY WHAT THE LAW SAID.

    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      10 months ago

      The secret is that it primarily targets low-passing trans people, which are the ones they dislike the most.

    • Vespair
      3·
      10 months ago

      Looking for holes in conservative logic is like trying to find water in the ocean.