Bill would amend Wyoming civil rights law to regulate bathroom use

[TexasTowelie]

A Cheyenne legislator wants to amend civil rights-era legislation to bar transgender individuals from using public bathrooms in Wyoming.

People would be subject to imprisonment for using a bathroom that does not correspond to their “sex identified at birth by the person’s anatomy” under House Bill 244, which would expand the crime of public indecency.

To be charged with public indecency under the existing law, a person must engage in an activity “with the intent of arousing the sexual desire of himself or another person.”

Sponsor Rep. Lars Lone, R-Cheyenne, declined to speak with a Star-Tribune reporter at the Wyoming Legislature.

Read more: http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/bill-would-amend-wyoming-civil-rights-law-to-regulate-bathroom/article_2a60c7b3-37cf-5963-9894-d669b6501b7b.html

[HassleCat]

1. Can of worms

Some restrooms are for either gender, but will that be a problem? The new law apparently wants people who had gender reassignment surgery to go back and use the bathroom of pre-reassignment. Is that what they really want? Really?

[hibbing]

2. We all know...it's not about the bathroom n/t

[SoCalNative]

3. So a question here

these bathroom bills always denote "sex identified at birth"..but for those of us who have been able to amend and get new birth cerificates with a new gender/sex deisgnation..how would that work exactly? And would we then need to carry copies of our birth certificates with us, even though our legal IDs denote our new and proper gender markers?

[TexasTowelie]

4. Gee, why do I always get the difficult questions?

The professor didn't say that this would be on the test.