More than 1 in 4 trans people live in a state with a bathroom ban
News Source : NBC News
News Summary
- Nineteen states have laws that prohibit trans people from using the bathrooms that align with their gender identities in K-12 schools.
- In many of those states the restrictions apply to other government-owned buildings as well.
- As a result, more than 1 in 4 trans people live in states with policies that restrict their bathroom use.These measures are similar to North Carolina’s HB 2, a law enacted in 2016 that was widely referred to as the “bathroom bill.” The law sparked nationwide protests and corporate boycotts, most notably from the NCAA.
Though North Carolinas law generated widespread protests, the bathroom policies passed over the last few years have received little national or corporate response, despite many of them being far broa [+9071 chars]
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