Utah’s Republican-controlled House voted Friday to pass a sweeping proposal to keep transgender people out of restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity in taxpayer-funded building…

Utah’s Republican-controlled House voted Friday to pass a sweeping proposal to keep transgender people out of restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity in taxpayer-funded buildings, sending the measure to the state’s majority GOP Senate for consideration just three days after the start of the session.

House Bill 257 aims to prohibit individuals from using gender-designated facilities that differ from their sex assigned at birth in government buildings, correctional facilities and domestic violence shelters unless they have undergone a transition-related surgery and legally amended the sex on their birth certificate.

The proposal would require new government buildings to include single-occupant restrooms and changing rooms while existing ones must be studied to assess “the feasibility of retrofitting or remodeling” facilities to improve privacy.

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The bill, if passed, would make Utah the third state to adopt explicit restrictions on transgender bathroom use in buildings other than schools. A Florida law passed last year prevents transgender people from using facilities consistent with their gender identity in all government-owned buildings, and a North Dakota law restricts bathroom use in correctional facilities.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
    81·
    10 months ago

    A long time ago I was asked by a friend my opinion of transgender people using their restroom that corresponds to their true gender (the one that does not correspond to their birth sex). My answer was this:

    I don’t give a fuck who you are, I don’t wanna shit next to you. All bathrooms should be individual, floor to ceiling walls, so I can shit in peace.

    The real ban should be on group shitting.

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
      18·
      10 months ago

      Counterpoint: the public communal toilets in Rome were important locations for grassroots political organizing.

      (But yeah, going to European office buildings and getting a fully enclosed shitter was pretty nice.

      • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
        16·
        10 months ago

        Countercounterpoint: we have the internet now.

        I just want us to fart freely. Maybe we would all be better people if we were not filled with hot air.

        • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          10 months ago

          Counterpoint : the internet is mostly funneled through a very small number of companies run by regressive fuckheads, and can not be relied upon for free exchange of ideas that may endanger said regressive fuckheads.

          I agree on ventilation though.

          • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
            4·
            10 months ago

            Countercounterpoint: while true that the media does meddle, it still allow us to connect with individuals from vast distances to discuss opinions that aren’t just localized, and often biased.

    • eatthecake@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      The proposal would require new government buildings to include single-occupant restrooms and changing rooms while existing ones must be studied to assess “the feasibility of retrofitting or remodeling” facilities to improve privacy.

      Like this?

      • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
        10·
        10 months ago

        Yeah but that’s not it. That’s “feasibility” that won’t ever be feasible. Mixed with hate. Also, it needs to be more than government building, because what does that solve? Not much.

        Let’s pass a law saying all publicly accessible bathrooms must be retrofitted or remodeled and until then, you can’t ban transgender people.

      • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
        4·
        10 months ago

        A man who identified himself as man.

        That’s a man, so technically that’s not the right restroom anyway and would not happen under normal circumstances.

        So, I’m going to assume you mean a transgender woman, in a woman’s restroom.

        No I wouldn’t have a problem. Why would I? Pooping is pooping. Perhaps add more detail to the scenario and I can give you a better answer.