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.

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.

  • @surewhynotlem
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    710 months ago

    improve privacy

    But we’ll have to check your birth certificate and genitals upon entry

    • @aelwero
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      410 months ago

      Fair point…

      Ya know, in '94 I was stationed in Korea, they had bars off base that catered to us military, and they had “juicy girls”, which were basically just women who went around looking for simps to buy them an orange juice for $20 (and they were pretty successful at it).

      Anyways, most of the bars had one bathroom. You’d go in there and use the urinal and occasionally one of the girls would walk right in and use the stall.

      It was weird as hell, but only once… After the initial “wtf” time, it was just meh, whatever, the OB beer’s cheap enough :)

      It’s not actually that serious…