The law requires people to use bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools and government-owned buildings that match their sex assigned at birth.

Utah became the latest state to regulate bathroom access for transgender people after Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed a law Tuesday that requires people to use bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools and government-owned buildings that match their sex assigned at birth.

Under the legislation, transgender people can defend themselves against complaints by proving they had gender-affirming surgery and changed the sex on their birth certificate. Opponents noted not all states allow people to change their birth certificates and that many trans people don’t want to have surgery.

The legislation also requires schools to create “privacy plans” for trans students and others who may not be comfortable using group bathrooms, for instance by allowing them to use a faculty bathroom — something opponents say may “out” transgender children.

  • @[email protected]
    9•11 months ago

    Do have to wonder (well not really it’s going to be horrendous) what these people’s response to a transman using a woman’s toilet would be.

    • @chuckleslord
      11•11 months ago

      The Legislation is designed to make being trans more dangerous in public. Any other given reason is a lie.

      Trans men entering a women’s restroom is dangerous. My brother can attest to that.

    • @Drivebyhaiku
      2•11 months ago

      They don’t think about it.

      Getting attacked or forcibly ejected from women’s bathrooms where they already feel desperately exposed make a lot of trans guys so gun shy from amalgamated bad experiences that they develop bladder and intestinal problems from refusing to go and tend to retreat from public entirely due to general anxiety. Some of pro move one can adopt to combat this is basically never going out without a female chaperone who can vouch for you…

      But it’s still a severe restriction of your general comfort going out of your house for more than a couple of hours at a time.

      End result is you basically rarely see trans men in public bathrooms so the bigots basically never are inconvenienced with considerations that they exist much less need consider the welfare of them.