Utah House Votes to Ban 'Transgender' Male Students from Girls' Bathrooms

Calvin Freiburger : Jan 31, 2024
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Whether moderate Republican Gov. Spencer Cox will sign HB 257 remains to be seen.

(Salt Lake City) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The Utah House voted 58-16 on Friday to give final approval to legislation that would keep most biological males out of opposite-sex restrooms in public buildings, though whether Republican Gov. Spencer Cox will sign it into law remains to be seen. (Image: LifeSiteNews-Screengrab)

HB 257 states that to "preserve the individual privacy of male and female students in the public education system, a student may only access an operational sex-designated privacy space within a public school that is designated for student use if the student's sex corresponds with the sex designation of the privacy space."

For "operational sex-designated changing room[s] in a government entity's facility that is open to the general public," the proposed rules are less stringent in that an individual must either be the corresponding sex or have both "legally amended the individual's birth certificate to correspond with the sex designation of the changing room" and "undergone a primary sex characteristic surgical procedure."

The bill also establishes as a matter of nondiscrimination law that "equal" does "not mean, with respect to biological sex" a "characteristic of being the same or identical" or a "requirement that biological sexes be ignored or co-mingled in every circumstance"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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