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Utah House passes transgender bathroom ban (thehill.com)

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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.

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[-] oDDmON@lemmy.world 87 points 5 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 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 months ago

And they might get a chance to punish a Trans person.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago

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

The glow and glittersplosion

Signed, a trans person

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 12 points 5 months ago

Bruh, when do I get those powers?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 5 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.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 points 5 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 points 5 months ago

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

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Republicans smashing through the wall like Kool-aid man OH YEAH!

[-] cmat273@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

My guess is some random transphobe calls the police on you and that's that

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] Mango@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago

Have you never been in a public bathroom in your life?

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