Interesting!

From all the other reports I read about Florida’s bathroom bill none of them mentioned this…

Florida public bathroom bill upsets transgender people
The Tampa Tribune
The Associated Press
Published: March 5, 2015

TALLAHASSEE — Transgender people would have to use public bathrooms designated for their birth gender, unless they have a license or passport that proves they’ve completed their transition to their new sex under a bill that passed its first legislative committee Wednesday.

The bill requires males transitioning to female and females transitioning to male to use single-sex public bathrooms, fitting rooms and locker rooms that are designated for the gender which they were born, regardless of the gender they now identify with. The House Civil Justice Subcommittee approved the bill 9-4, with Republicans supporting it and Democrats opposed.

Okay, what caught my attention (Besides that all the Republicans voted for the bill and none of the Democrats.) was “…unless they have a license or passport that proves they’ve completed their transition to their new sex…” so I read the bill and nowhere in the bill does it say anything like that. The bill reads,

…requiring that use of single-sex public facilities be restricted to persons of the sex for which the facility is designated; prohibiting knowingly and willfully entering a single-sex public facility designated for or restricted to persons of the other biological sex; providing criminal penalties…

And throughout the bill it mentions biological sex, the bill uses the terms “biological females” and “biological males” and it does not mention anything about trans people who have transitioned.

Nowhere does it define what is meant by “biological females” and “biological males” nor does it mention what bathrooms intersex people are supposed use. Nor does it mention how your biological sex is going to be determined.

Another interesting thing is that the bill actually mentioned rapes and assaults,

Section 1.
(1) The purpose of this act is to secure privacy and safety for all individuals using single-sex public facilities.
(2) The Legislature finds that: (d) Single-sex public facilities are places of increased vulnerability and present the potential for crimes against individuals using those facilities, including, but not limited to, assault, battery, molestation, rape, voyeurism, and exhibitionism.

The article goes on to say,

Republican Rep. Frank Artiles of Miami said his bill, HB 583, is needed to prevent rapes, molestations, voyeurism and other crimes in bathrooms. He said he filed it after Miami-Dade County passed an ordinance allowing people to use the bathroom of the sex they identify as. He said it could be abused by heterosexual males who want to go into women’s restrooms for the wrong reasons.

“Criminals and males will use this law as the cover of law to walk into a women’s locker room and conduct ... lascivious crimes,” Artiles said. “If a police officer stops them, all they have to do is say ‘I feel like a woman today.’ ”

This is BS, there has never been an assault be a person who used the non-discrimination law as a shield. And the list of crimes (assault, battery, molestation, rape, voyeurism, and exhibitionism) are already against the law.

And what no legislator has been able to answer is just why a person would go to all the trouble of dressing up commit a rape, when they would just walk into the bathroom and do it.