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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas to pass bill banning transgender students from choosing bathrooms
Source: The Guardian and Associated Press
Texas to pass bill banning transgender students from choosing bathrooms
Lawmakers inserted a bathroom amendment into an otherwise
unrelated bill and Texass House gave final approval, paving the
way for Senate backing
Tom Dart in Houston and Associated Press
Monday 22 May 2017 21.27 BST
Texas is to pass a bathroom bill that will ban transgender students from using the restroom that aligns with their gender identity.
Conservative politicians in Texas have agitated strongly for the measure despite the backlash against such a law in North Carolina, which involved economic boycotts and attempts to repeal it after it was introduced last year.
A wide-ranging bill more similar to North Carolinas that would have affected all public restrooms and preempted local anti-discrimination ordinances was passed by the Texas senate earlier this year but stalled in the state house of representatives, where the speaker, Joe Straus, was worried that businesses and sports events could pull out of the state and damage the economy
However, a key advocate, lieutenant governor Dan Patrick, threatened to force the extension of the legislative session beyond its final day of 29 May unless a bill was approved.
Lawmakers used a tactic on Sunday night to circumvent the problem of time running out: a bathroom amendment was inserted into an otherwise unrelated bill about how schools plan for emergencies such as natural disasters and bomb threats.
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Lawmakers inserted a bathroom amendment into an otherwise
unrelated bill and Texass House gave final approval, paving the
way for Senate backing
Tom Dart in Houston and Associated Press
Monday 22 May 2017 21.27 BST
Texas is to pass a bathroom bill that will ban transgender students from using the restroom that aligns with their gender identity.
Conservative politicians in Texas have agitated strongly for the measure despite the backlash against such a law in North Carolina, which involved economic boycotts and attempts to repeal it after it was introduced last year.
A wide-ranging bill more similar to North Carolinas that would have affected all public restrooms and preempted local anti-discrimination ordinances was passed by the Texas senate earlier this year but stalled in the state house of representatives, where the speaker, Joe Straus, was worried that businesses and sports events could pull out of the state and damage the economy
However, a key advocate, lieutenant governor Dan Patrick, threatened to force the extension of the legislative session beyond its final day of 29 May unless a bill was approved.
Lawmakers used a tactic on Sunday night to circumvent the problem of time running out: a bathroom amendment was inserted into an otherwise unrelated bill about how schools plan for emergencies such as natural disasters and bomb threats.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/22/texas-bill-ban-transgender-students-bathrooms-lgbt
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Texas to pass bill banning transgender students from choosing bathrooms (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2017
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LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)1. Dan Patrick is already complaining that the House "bathroom bill" doesn't go far enough
The House bathroom bill only applies to K-12 schools and would mandate private facilities for those who request them.
Patrick wants a NC type bill that requires genital birth certified bathrooms in all public facilities, including universities, govt offices, parks etc.
Chipper Chat
(9,687 posts)2. "show me your penis" rest room guard.
What a job!