Arizona Legislature to debate bill making transgender bathroom usage illegal

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(Newser) – Arizona's House will today debate a bill that would make it illegal to enter a public bathroom, shower, or dressing room designated for a gender not listed on your birth certificate. The bill is an apparent response to the anti-discrimination law Phoenix passed last week that would allow transgender people to use their preferred bathroom. The new bill's sponsor, Rep. John Kavanagh, says it's "unacceptable" for a man who merely "thinks of himself" as a woman to use their facilities. "If you're male, you stick to the men's room," he tells KPHO.

The bill would make using the wrong bathroom punishable by a fine of up to $2,500, AZ Family reports. The House Appropriations Committee will take up the bill today. The bill has sparked outrage from transgender activists; Equality Arizona released a statement yesterday calling it "a disgusting invasion of privacy," one that could make criminals of women who duck into men's bathrooms to avoid long lines, the Arizona Daily Sun reports. (Kavanagh says police will "use discretion" in those circumstances.) Laurie Roberts at the Arizona Republic decries the bill as ridiculous. "Forget about showing your birth certificate to vote," she writes. "You soon may need to tote the thing around in order to use the bathroom."

[Politicalboi]

1. Arizona,

Moving into the 18th century one day at a time.

[niyad]

3. I think you are being generous--13th, or possibly 7th.

[niyad]

2. how in the world do they plan to enforce this? toilet police? you have to show a birth certificate

to use a public restroom or dressing room? apart from the sheer hatred and ignorance of this bill, the logistics of enforcement would be a nightmare, I would think. and who is going to pay for it?

[joeybee12]

4. The GOP...the party of less regulation...

Or so they'd like their idiot base to believe.

[Eleanors38]

5. Texas moved into the 20th Century and stayed there:

Some of our thunder boxes are Unisex; one at a time & close the door after you're in. Scientific.