Mississippi bill would limit where transgender people can use bathrooms in public buildings

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's Republican-controlled House voted 
Wednesday in favor of a measure that would restrict transgender people's 
use of bathrooms and locker rooms in public buildings, including 
university dormitories.

The bill, which now goes back to the Republican-led Senate, says people 
are either male or female “as observed or clinically verified at birth” 
and must use the corresponding facilities. It also requires that public 
buildings have restrooms or changing areas designated for men only or 
women only, or single-person spaces that may be used by anyone.

Democrats who opposed the measure accused conservatives of marginalizing 
transgender people to try to score points with voters.
“They used to run on race, colors, and all of that,” said Rep. Willie 
Bailey, a Democrat from Greenville. “Then they started running against 
people on abortion. Now they’ve got to have an issue on transgender — it’s 
just silly.”

The bill is one of several being considered in state legislatures across 
the U.S. as Republicans try to restrict which bathrooms transgender people 
can use and which sports they can play.

Republican Rep. Joey Hood of Ackerman, chairman of the Mississippi House 
Judiciary A Committee and a prominent backer of the bill, said it aims to 
ensure people are using facilities that align with their sex at birth.

“We’re going to make sure boys go to boys’ bathrooms, girls go to girls’ 
bathrooms,” Hood said, an argument he made several times during the 
debate.

The bill would allow a person to sue another who uses a restroom or 
changing area that does not match their sex at birth.

It also establishes exceptions for emergency medical and cleaning workers 
and people who need assistance, including children younger than 12. They 
would be allowed to enter any public restroom or locker room regardless of 
gender.

Democratic Rep. Zakiya Summers of Jackson, who is Black, compared efforts 
to limit transgender people's access to public facilities to restrictions 
that Black people faced during the Jim Crow era.

“It reminded me of what my ancestors had to deal with at a time when they 
couldn’t go in the bathroom, either, and they wouldn’t dare stick their 
toe in a pool,” Summers said.

At least 11 states have passed laws barring transgender girls and women 
from girls and women’s bathrooms at public schools, and in some cases 
other government facilities. The laws have taken effect in Alabama, 
Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma and 
Tennessee, while an Idaho ordinance is on hold and Utah's prohibition is 
scheduled to take effect July 1.

The Mississippi House and Senate have passed different versions of a 
“Mississippi Women's Bill of Rights,” which defines the terms woman, man, 
mother, father, female, male and sex in ways that support the idea that 
sex is defined at birth. The two chambers would need to agree on a single 
version before the bill could go to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.

In March the House voted for a measure that would have let incarcerated 
people sue jails or prisons if they encounter inmates of another sex — the 
bill included transgender people among that category — in restrooms or 
changing areas. However, the bill died in a Senate committee.


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