House Bill 2: Restroom Legislation

In recent years, the United States has been struggling to pass transgender rights, and Texas is of no means of an exception. Some of these include bathroom rights. In Texas, the bathroom bill passed through the Texas Senate, but did not survive through the Texas House, resulting in a temporary halt. Even now, the government still question the rights. It is suggested that Texas may need a bathroom bill, but would probably end in some kind of financial consequence, along with many Americans losing their jobs. The Texas Bathroom Bill, otherwise known as SB6, could also fuel disunity within our nation and cause several riots.

On April 25th, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina there was a very controversial bill passed. This bill was named the HB-2 bill (House Bill 2). The bill states “AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SINGLE SEX MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY BATHROOM AND CHANGING FACILITIES IN SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC AGENCIES AND TO CREATE STATEWIDE CONSISTENCY IN REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT OR PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS”. The HB-2 bill states that people will use the bathroom that corresponds to the sex indicated on their birth certificate unless they surgically change their body parts to become the opposite sex. If they do have a sex-change operation, they may change the sex on their birth certificate. Stories about the dangerous behaviors of transgenders are plentiful. For example, on March 4th,

The police are left baffled because of this un-thought out law. The new law demanded police to enforce this law by guarding public bathrooms. A policeman Sheriff Lott wrote a letter to the committee studying the bathroom laws saying "In the 41 years I have been in law enforcement in South Carolina, I have never heard of a transgender person attacking or otherwise bothering someone in a restroom…This is a non-issue." This new law is completely unenforceable and a is causing much more harm then good (Transgender Bathroom

I agree; the article “Texas Bathroom Bill Has Emotions, and Stakes, Running High” doesn’t deal with the issue of intersectionality. In fact, this article focuses more on the politics and economic consequences of the Bathroom Bill than the emotional, or general, effects the bill has on the transgender community. The transgender community is only mentioned briefly when Serria Jane Davis and Alisa Miller gave their testimony. Intersectionality could have been addressed through, as you said, adding more diversity in the form of adding different age groups, races/ethnic groups, and people both supporting and belonging to the transgender community. It is understandable that this article does not deal with intersectionality since its main fouce is

In her article North Carolina students sue U.S. over stance on bathroom access, author Colleen Jenkins talks about the issue going in North Carolina regarding the law in which banned transgender’s using the the restroom of the gender with which they identify with. In her article, Jenkins discusses the fact that students in North Carolina have asked the U.S. court to block two federal agencies from withholding education funding while the dispute over the bathroom access for transgenders goes on. In addition, the group called “North Carolinians for privacy” discussed the fact that U.S Department of Justice and U.S Department of Education had dishonorably held arrangements of government laws banning segregation in the education settings on the

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As ruled in the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal is not equal. This ruling may have been upwards of one hundred years ago, but North Carolina legislators seem to have dropped it from their memories. Governor Pat McCrory signed HB2, or the Public Facilities Safety and Privacy Act, into law on March 23, 2016. HB2, popularly dubbed “The Bathroom Bill”, prevents transgender or non-gender conforming individuals from using the bathroom corresponding to the gender they identify as. They instead must use the facilities for the gender listed on their birth certificate. Not only is the law wildly transphobic, but it is outright dangerous - it will only further ostracize trans people and put them in the way of even more violence.

New York City Council voted 47-2 to pass a legislation to remove "men" and "women" sign from single-occupancy bathrooms, and it now moves to Mayor Bill De Blasio for signature, who is expected to approve it.

Currently LGBT+ rights have been in question in America and in our very own North Carolina with bills passed as House Bill 2 also known as HB2. This bill enforces that a person must use the bathroom corresponding to their gender on their birth certificate

Like North Carolina, many other states are looking to adopt segregated bathroom laws. These states include Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Louisiana. These bathroom bills violate numerous federal laws. These include a section of the Education Amendment Title IX, Civil Rights Act Title VII, and the Violence against Women Act (Kotch). Some of these bathroom bills state that transgender individuals have to utilize bathroom facilities that correspond with the gender on their birth certificate thus violating Title IX, an amendment that protects discrimination on the basis of sex. This amendment states that schools are required to provide transgender students

“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” – Alice Paul (Alice Paul Quote)

TIME magazine in April 5, 2016, in North Carolina, the law passed recently became the first state law in the country limiting transgender people to use the bathroom corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates, also excluding LGBT people from anti-discrimination protections, plus blocking municipalities from passing their own anti-discrimination rules. (Dalesio, 2016)

March 23, 2016, was the beginning of America’s backpedal after legalizing gay marriage. North Carolina passed a law that denies some the right to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity, allowing them to only use the gendered bathroom matching the gender on their birth certificate, allows all LGBTQ+ discrimination to take place with no consequences, and denies the right of those discriminated against to sue in a court of law. This law, commonly known as “The Bathroom Law” or “HB2” has sparked controversy and protest all across the country. Since enacted, the law has caused the state to lose money, respect, and has gathered a majority who want it to be repealed. Therefore, as it’s easily one of the most hateful and harmful

North Carolina passed a law back in March 2016 that stated people must use the bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex. Many people believe that this law directly targets transgender people. Loretta Lynch is one of the many people who does not agree with the transgender law. She has stated that it is another form of discrimination.

Perhaps, you, as I did, see the paradox created by the right. To be sticking their nose in business (a literal, private, business) where it does not belong by enforcing a state-governed rule on bathroom policy is ludicrous. Are these not the same people who complain about government making rules for private corporations?