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A bathroom bill is the common name for legislation or a statute that denies access to public toilets by gender or transgender identity. Bathroom bills affect access to sex-segregated public facilities for an individual based on a determination of their sex as defined in some specific way, such as their sex as assigned at birth, their sex as listed on their birth certificate, or the sex that ...
US states with Restroom Access Acts. The Restroom Access Act, also known as Ally's Law, is legislation passed by several U.S. states that requires retail establishments that have toilet facilities for their employees to also allow customers to use the facilities if the customer has a medical condition requiring immediate access to a toilet, such as inflammatory bowel disease or Crohn’s disease.
Washington state employment law says that "You must have an appropriate number of toilets for each gender, based on the number of male and female employees at your workplace. For example, if you have thirty-seven men and seventeen women, you need to have three toilets for the men and two toilets for the women". [24]
At least 11 states have adopted laws barring transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s bathrooms at public schools, and in some cases other government facilities.
Newsom's signing of the bills came one day after he faced backlash from his fellow Democrats — and rare praise from state Republicans — for vetoing a bill that would have required courts to ...
Twelve states regulate transgender bathroom use in schools, government buildings or both, according to the Movement Advancement Project. The issue first attracted national attention in 2016, when ...
The Facility Requirements Based on Sex Act, also known as Committee Substitute for House Bill 1521 (CS/HB 1521), is a 2023 Florida anti-trans bathroom law which mandates that individuals must use restrooms, locker rooms, and changing facilities that correspond to their sex assigned at birth in some public, private and state-licensed facilities.
According to the bill, which goes into effect July 1, people who violate the new law can be sued for damages by those who feel their privacy within the gender-specific facility was violated.