Utah House passes bill that restricts all trans people's use of bathrooms in the state — and threatens jail
H.B. 257 would not only ban transgender folks from many public facilities but also call for jail time.
January 24, 2024
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H.B. 257 would not only ban transgender folks from many public facilities but also call for jail time.
Crunch Fitness of El Cajon had denied Christynne Wood access to the women's locker room and other facilities.
Provisions in one of the first orders signed by Trump mandate that transgender women be housed in men's prisons by stripping protections for trans prisoners in the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
An appeals court declares trans women aren't really women but "men who self-identify as women."
The judge said his hands were tied by state law in the ruling.
The bill is from the same Republican who introduced last year’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.
But Florida's bathroom law does not apply to privately owned facilities.
Nancy Mace’s proposal to cut bathroom access for trans women in the Capitol is the latest in the building’s long history of excluding women lawmakers.
Massachusetts -- viewed as a bastion of tolerance -- only recently began recognizing the humanity of trans prisoners.
A new memorandum from Immigration and Customs Enforcement indicates the agency will house transgender women in women's detention facilities.
“I know that my art has healed me just year after year after year. It keeps healing me," Etheridge says. "I’m just so grateful and always hope that my music can do that for people."
He ruled that the Trump administration’s policy likely violated the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
Trans state Rep. Zoey Zephyr hailed the order blocking House Bill 121, which codified male and female genders and banned trans folks from using "restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters" that aligned with their gender identity.
The New York Civil Liberties Union plans to appeal, but for now, the law will stay in place while a suit against it is heard.