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Utah House passes transgender bathroom ban (thehill.com)

submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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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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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

If it looks like a man, sounds like a man, and pees like a man, it does not belong in the women's restroom! Trans men look like men, sound like men, and sometimes even pee like men and this bill will force them to pee in women's restrooms! If you want to keep bearded people out of the women's restroom, you should have voted against this bill.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 9 points 10 months ago

The law is dumb. But it does exclude those that have undergone transition.

[-] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 10 months ago

not every trans person gets genital surgery, in fact the majority don't. additionally, in many states your birth cert can't be amended so then not even everyone who's had genital reassignment may use the restroom legally. that bit is there specifically to make it sound halfway reasonable to the uninformed who think transition is a surgery.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 8 points 10 months ago

The comment I responded to said "and pees like a man", which is why I pointed out the exclusion.

Whilst I am admittedly ignorant to transition definitions and American law I'm still able to sympathise on how trans people are seemingly being targeted for no reason other than political BS.

I don't understand the logic behind it. Who cares what sex people are under their clothes. What do they think is happening in the restrooms that needs fixing?

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

They don't think anything needs fixing. They're just trying to break shit.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

in fact the majority don’t.

Didn't know that. TIL

[-] shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

I'm not gonna cut my dick off to go to the right bathroom wtf

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