Texas village. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill on Monday, in which the residents of transgender Texas would need to use the bathroom in some public places according to the sex assigned at birth.
LawPassed through one by Texas House 86-45 votes On August 28, the government -owned buildings, including public schools and universities, apply. It includes toilet, locker room, changing room and shower room, which it defines as “multi-right private location”.
It also directs Texas to the Criminal Justice Department to “place inmates in a corrective facility, which includes a dormitory or cereblock of a corrective feature, according to the prisoner’s sex.”
Under the law, the Texas Family Violence Shelters is prevented from providing transgender women from providing services, until they are 17 years of age or less and have a child of a woman receiving service.
Before it is passed, A Amendment offered Five Republican representatives violated the law for the first crimes for crimes and violated $ 125,000 for fines and subsequent offenses. Initial fines were $ 5,000 for initial offenses and $ 25,000 for later offenses.
The amendment was adopted by 84–41 votes.
The law includes exceptions for certain cases, including objectives of detention and maintenance, helping with a person, law enforcement functions, and a place to enter a place with a caretaker at the age of nine with children.
One in Post On the social platform X, Abbott called the ban “a general knowledge public safety issue”. The law will be applicable on 4 December.
When the bill was passed on August 28, Texas’s American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU) called it “unconscious and unconstitutional” release,
“Texas, including the transgender community, should be able to safely use public facilities that align as a basic case of respect, security and privacy with our gender identity,” ACLU said.
Seven states, including Texas, prevent transgender people from using bathrooms according to their gender identity in all government -owned buildings. Agitation progress projectThirteen other state transgenders limit people from using the bathroom in some government -owned buildings to suit their gender identity.
