Here We Go Again

Another Republican has introduced an anti-trans bathroom bill, this time in Tennessee and they one-upped on South Dakota by have the bill not only include K-12 but also colleges.

Tennessee lawmakers to consider transgender bathroom bill
Tennessean
By Joel Ebert
March 7, 2016

Less than a week after South Dakota's Republican governor vetoed a bill that would have made it the first state in the nation to have a law that would have required transgender students to use bathrooms that match their sex at birth, Tennessee lawmakers are set to consider similar legislation.

The measure, sponsored by Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Old Hickory, and Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, would "require that a student use student restroom and locker room facilities that are assigned for use by persons of the same sex as the sex indicated on the student’s original birth certificate."

Lynn, who called South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard's veto a "mistake," said the legislation is necessary in order to avoid a lawsuit.

Every school district in Tennessee has to currently come up with their own policy, she said, calling it a "salt and pepper, patchwork" approach.

And why do they want to pass a state law, why to prevent law suits.

Lynn said by allowing each school district to set their own policy, a parent might decide to take legal action which could force a district to explain how they came up with their own policy. To avoid that, Lynn said the state should implement a law requiring students to use bathrooms based on their gender at birth, which she said will offer protection to individual school districts.

And get a load of this…

Calling her bill a "very friendly" approach, Lynn said the legislation allows schools to make arrangements for anyone who "claims to be transgender."

Yeah, creating segregation is so “friendly.”

Meanwhile, the Nashville Scene reports,

The Tennessee Family Action Council’s David Fowler is outraged that the state Education Department is trying to kill legislation that targets transgender children for bullying and abuse by barring public school students from using bathrooms or showers that correspond to their gender identities. Instead, under the bill, they’d have to use the bathrooms assigned to people of the sex that’s shown on their birth certificates.
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It's widely seen as a mean-spirited attempt by conservative Christians to scapegoat transgender children and vent their frustrations over advancements in gay rights. More than two dozen of these bills have been introduced in legislatures around the country. South Dakota's governor vetoed one of the bills last week.

Exactly, the conservatives lost their battle with gays and lesbians so now they are going after the low hanging fruit… us.