Texas Senate tentatively approves "bathroom bill"

[TexasTowelie]

The Texas Senate on Tuesday tentatively signed off on the “bathroom bill” on a 21-10 vote with one Democrat — state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. of Brownsville — voting in favor of the bill.

Senate Bill 6, a legislative priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, would require transgender people to use bathrooms in public schools, government buildings and other publicly-owned facilities that match their “biological sex” and not gender identity. And it would preempt local anti-discrimination laws meant to allow transgender residents to use public bathrooms that match their gender identity.

The vote on the controversial legislation came after a four-and-a-half-hour debate over the bill’s impact on an already vulnerable population, the need for uniform bathroom policies across the state and whether the proposed regulations would actually deter men from entering women’s restrooms.

Before passing the bill, senators considered 22 amendments. Republican senators joined the bill's author, state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, in rejecting all but three amendments that make minor tweaks to the legislation but did not alter the main bathroom policies proposed in the legislation.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/03/14/texas-senate-signs-so-called-bathroom-bill/

[SoCalNative]

1. Let them suffer

as North Carolina has since passing their ridiculous law.

[moose65]

2. Yep

We certainly have suffered here in NC. This is another of those un-enforceable bills that they pass to pander to fear and make themselves feel superior, but it's ultimately a useless law unless it also creates a "bathroom police force" - who is going to make sure the bill is enforced? No one!