Kentucky Senate Committee Passes School Restroom Mandate For Transgender Students

[KamaAina]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/kentucky-transgender-restrooms_n_6740162.html

A Kentucky Senate committee on Monday approved a bill that would require transgender students to use restrooms designated for "their biological sex," days after an identical measure failed.

The legislation, introduced last month, would require schools to “provide separate, private areas designated for use by students based on their biological sex” rather than their gender identity.

The legislation last week failed to earn seven votes needed to pass the Senate education committee, but legislators voted again on Monday and approved the measure 8-1, sending it to the full Senate. When a Kentucky Senate bill fails a committee vote, the committee chair can order a reconsideration, Amber Duke, communications director of the ACLU of Kentucky, told The Huffington Post. Bad weather was blamed for two senators missing last week's vote, Duke said....

“Unfortunately, tonight, the Kentucky Senate chose to prioritize an issue of discrimination after it was defeated just days ago with bi-partisan opposition,” Chris Hartman, the director of the Kentucky LGBT advocacy group Fairness Campaign, said in the statement. “Given the number and scale of important issues before the Senate this session, it is shocking the committee felt the need to re-vote on this. It is willful, mean-spirited, and does nothing to move our commonwealth forward.”

[randys1]

1. Mean spirited, akin to hitting a transgender person with a fist.

rightwingers are hitting americans with closed fists

whether it be thru actions like this or attacking the poor and jobs etc

[marym625]

2. There's a full out war against transgender people in this country

And it's mostly aimed at kids.

This really sucks.

[dilby]

4. I agree with you 100%.

Transgender children are at a complete disadvantage, so many of them have absolutely no access to resources or even other transgender people who can help them as they try to make it in this world.

[dilby]

3. Why is it so hard for some people to wrap their heads around what transgender means.

These are children who completely identify with being a male or female regardless of what sex they were born as. To force them into restrooms based on their biological sex is absolutely cruel, Kentucky you should be ashamed of yourself right now.