Texas Bathroom Bill
This follows from another thread because I think it is something that needs to be discussed, even though it pertains specifically to one state in the U.S. It already occurred in another state and will not stop here if successful.
To wit:
Steam is correct that there is a bill, but it has not yet passed into law. A previous attempt at passing a bathroom bill failed, and this is the next iteration.
The Bill: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs...l/SB00006I.htm
The summary: http://www.businessinsider.com/texas...-is-sb6-2017-3
For those of you else where, Texas is a broad mix of extremely right wing and extremely left wing folk largely divided and weighted between rural and urban, respectively. The state government is very red while the governments of the large cities are purple to blue. Austin and Dallas passed city ordinances that protected the rights of transgendered people to use the facilities that are appropriate to them. The only way the Republicans can change this is by enacting state law which has the ability to supersede city and county laws, which SB6 does.
Now, why are they doing this? To protect the children and womenfolk from bad people. Allegedly they are not trying to curtail the rights of the transgendered, but merely preventing perverts from claiming to be of the opposite sex so they can enter a facility and prey upon the helpless inhabitants within.
Yeah.
Two days ago, 3/8/17 there was a procedural vote and the measure moved forward. The full Senate will likely vote on this next week.
So, let's talk about this.
Also, at least some of you said that you are residents of Texas. Here are your state senators who will be voting on this. http://www.senate.state.tx.us/members.php
To wit:
Quote:
...It's new bathroom bill, as an example, now requires that I use a different public bathroom because my generics and physiology are at odds. I was born with the physiology of one gender, and the chromosome count of another. I have never identified as the gender of my genetics. The new law goes by gender on a birth certificate. Mine, incorrectly assigns me the gender my biology says I am, which means that by law, I am now required to use a bathroom that does not match my physiology. This law, that claims to protect women and children from "predators" now puts me in danger. |
The Bill: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs...l/SB00006I.htm
The summary: http://www.businessinsider.com/texas...-is-sb6-2017-3
For those of you else where, Texas is a broad mix of extremely right wing and extremely left wing folk largely divided and weighted between rural and urban, respectively. The state government is very red while the governments of the large cities are purple to blue. Austin and Dallas passed city ordinances that protected the rights of transgendered people to use the facilities that are appropriate to them. The only way the Republicans can change this is by enacting state law which has the ability to supersede city and county laws, which SB6 does.
Now, why are they doing this? To protect the children and womenfolk from bad people. Allegedly they are not trying to curtail the rights of the transgendered, but merely preventing perverts from claiming to be of the opposite sex so they can enter a facility and prey upon the helpless inhabitants within.
Yeah.
Two days ago, 3/8/17 there was a procedural vote and the measure moved forward. The full Senate will likely vote on this next week.
So, let's talk about this.
Also, at least some of you said that you are residents of Texas. Here are your state senators who will be voting on this. http://www.senate.state.tx.us/members.php