Story out of Washington:
The legislation, Washington Senate bill 6548, actually passed through the Law and Justice committee last night with Republican backing.
It would amend equality legislation to state: “Nothing in this chapter grants any right to a person to access a private facility segregated by gender, such as a bathroom, restroom, toilet, shower, locker room, or sauna, of a public or private entity if the person is preoperative, nonoperative, or otherwise has genitalia of a different gender from that for which the facility is segregated.”
However, some have pointed out the rather obvious flaw in the legislation – because it relies simply on the presence of genitalia, and does not allow for any other signifier of gender or sex to be taken into account.
If truly based simply on genitalia, this could have the awkward side-effect of making it a legal requirement to check the vaginas of every woman trying to go to the bathroom, and examine the penis of every man.
Some activists have theorized that to turn trans people away in a compliant manner, the law would technically require the appointment of a ‘genital checker’ at every bathroom seeking to enforce such rules. Cont.
Story from - Pink News
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