“FLUSH the bill!” chanted protesters gathered outside Texas’s state capitol building, in Austin, on July 21st. They had gathered, bearing placards decorated with pictures of toilets, seat up, to urge lawmakers to ditch legislation that would prevent transgender people from using the lavatory of their choice.
Undeterred, the Senate voted in favour of two bills on July 25th that would reserve certain toilets, showers and changing rooms, in schools and public places, for the use of “persons of the same sex as stated on a person's birth certificate." But whether the bill will ever become law is another matter.
This is the second time this year that conservatives in Texas have tried to regulate the toilet habits of transgender people. In March, similar legislation succeeded in the state Senate but fell in the House of Representatives, thanks to opposition from pro-business Republicans. They were concerned the law would deter investors from outside the state, as happened in North Carolina last year after its Congress...Continue reading
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