Post by Logan on Apr 13, 2016 22:54:15 GMT -6
Transgender restroom bill in Kansas alarms LGBT student advocates
A transgender restroom bill aimed at public schools and universities recently landed in the Kansas Legislature, and alarmed and offended LGBT student advocates are lashing out at the proposal.
The bill would require transgender students to use restrooms that match their gender at birth. A section of the bill that’s particularly disturbing, LGBT advocates say, is a provision many are calling a “bounty hunt.”
Under the proposal, students “who encounter a person of the opposite sex” in restroom and locker room facilities could sue the school for $2,500 plus damages for emotional and physical harm.
Sex is defined in the bill as “determined by a person’s chromosomes and is identified at birth by a person’s anatomy.”
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article71716992.html
A transgender restroom bill aimed at public schools and universities recently landed in the Kansas Legislature, and alarmed and offended LGBT student advocates are lashing out at the proposal.
The bill would require transgender students to use restrooms that match their gender at birth. A section of the bill that’s particularly disturbing, LGBT advocates say, is a provision many are calling a “bounty hunt.”
Under the proposal, students “who encounter a person of the opposite sex” in restroom and locker room facilities could sue the school for $2,500 plus damages for emotional and physical harm.
Sex is defined in the bill as “determined by a person’s chromosomes and is identified at birth by a person’s anatomy.”
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article71716992.html