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

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.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago

I love that they claim that they're stopping women from being sexually assaulted by a man wearing a dress and going into the women's room... as if bathrooms are so closely monitored that a man in standard men's clothing couldn't just slip into one if he wanted. I mean he could wear a janitor uniform if he was worried about it.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Also, they always seem to forget that if you force trans people to use the restroom for their agab, you're also forcing trans men into women's restrooms. So now instead of having women they want to pretend are men in the women's restroom you now have actual men in the women's restroom.

(But also gendered restrooms are just dumb everyone would be so much better off without them)

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

It's about making being trans an obvious thing, making life for them more dangerous. It's not about anything else they say out loud.

[-] skydivekingair@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

If it’s a code brown and the mens/womens room is closed who wouldn’t use the other bathroom?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Code either. I've used the women's room when I've had to pee and couldn't hold it in.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I believe the civilian term is; "When you gotta go, you gotta go."

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised if it is worded in a way that would make it illegal for janitors who are men to be breaking the law if they enter a woman's bathroom.

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