South Carolina bill aims to restrict transgender access to bathrooms

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Thu Apr 7, 2016 2:11pm EDT

South Carolina bill aims to restrict transgender access to bathrooms

BY COLLEEN JENKINS

South Carolina lawmakers have introduced a measure that would block transgender people from using public bathrooms that do not match their birth sex, despite increasing calls for a repeal of a similar provision enacted last month in North Carolina.

The legislation proposed in the state Senate on Wednesday also would prohibit local governments from requiring private businesses to provide restroom access based on gender identity rather than birth gender.

"Men should use the men’s room, and women should use the women’s room - that’s just common sense,” Republican Senator Lee Bright, a sponsor of the bill, told The State newspaper. “North Carolina is getting so much flak over what is common sense.”

The South Carolina measure is narrower than North Carolina's law, which precludes local governments from adopting anti-discrimination ordinances with protections based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-south-carolina-transgender-idUSKCN0X42GK

[PatrickforO]

1. Good old Christian hate...

Why I don't call myself one.

[COLGATE4]

3. You can almost hear the choir in the background

humming 'Rock of Ages'. They're just pissed that NC did it first.

[shenmue]

2. Where are people supposed to pee, outside?!

[dogman]

4. I wonder what they do at home?

Do houses in those states require separate gender bathrooms?

[SCantiGOP]

5. This bill is not going anywhere

The Governor has already said she will oppose it, and it is too late in the session to get it through without unanimous consent in the Senate, which of course will not happen.
Sen. Bright (the most ironically named legislator in the state) is by far the stupidest, most right-wing asshole in the SC Senate. He has a primary opponent and is just throwing red meat to his teabag constituency.

And, the fact this won't pass in no way indicates that SC is more progressive than NC. It just shows that our politicians can at least read newspapers and see the shitstorm this stirred up in NC.