Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law on Wednesday a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools, making the state one of a few to enact broad measures against what she and other Republicans call a leftward tilt in U.S. education.

The bill, which passed Alabama’s Republican-led legislature on Tuesday, bans public schools from maintaining diversity, equity and inclusion offices or teaching what the bill calls “divisive concepts” about race and identity, such as that of holding people of one race responsible for actions committed by the same racial group in the past.

It also requires public institutions of higher education to designate bathrooms as only for males or females, a move that counters transgender rights advocates’ push for gender-neutral bathrooms.

  • cannibalkitteh
    22·
    9 months ago

    Like I have in my own home? Nah, that’d never work. I need businesses to designate a separate bathroom for every gender! /s

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
      10·
      9 months ago

      Shhh, don’t remind them or they’ll make you build extra bathrooms in your home

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 months ago

        The bathroom separation originates from the Victorian era, and in richer households, they even had separate living rooms.

    • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      Buildings such as the pentagon ended up with an excess of bathrooms because they had white/coloured and men/women (plus presumably disabled?)