About 1 in 4 transgender people live in states with some form of bathroom restrictions.StatelineBy: Anna Claire VollersJune 26, 2025Nineteen states now have a law or policy banning transgender people from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.About 1 in 4 transgender people live in states with some form of bathroom restrictions, according to the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit research group that tracks LGBTQ+-related legislation.So far this year, at least eight states have passed new transgender bathroom laws or expanded existing ones.In March, Wyoming Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed a pair of Republican-sponsored bills restricting the use of bathrooms and locker rooms in public buildings. The House bill requires public school students and anyone in a government building to use the bathroom or locker room corresponding with their sex assigned at birth, regardless of their gender identity, appearance or the gender on their legal documents. The Senate’s bill, which requires public school students to use facilities that align with their sex at birth, was introduced after a local school board called on lawmakers to restrict bathroom use.
Pretty soon Peeing in Peace will need monthly updates!
I searched for trans arrested in bathrooms... the only arrests that I could find was in protests of these laws... not one on morals charges. However, there were legislators on moral grounds!
I asked that question to ChatGPT and it replied,
More Politicians Arrested in Bathrooms Than Trans People: What the Data Really ShowsOne of the most striking ironies in the ongoing debate over bathroom access laws is the fact that more politicians have been arrested in bathrooms for indecent acts than transgender people have been arrested for similar offenses. High-profile cases like Senator Larry Craig’s 2007 arrest for soliciting sex in a men’s restroom, or Representative Bob Allen’s arrest in a public restroom, are well documented and widely reported.In contrast, arrests of transgender individuals in bathrooms are almost exclusively tied to laws restricting their access based on gender identity — not for committing indecent acts. Despite repeated claims that these laws are necessary to prevent safety risks or inappropriate behavior, there is little to no evidence that transgender people pose such threats.This stark contrast exposes how bathroom bills targeting transgender people are less about actual incidents and more about politics, fear, and control. If the goal truly is public safety and decency, perhaps lawmakers should reflect on their own histories before imposing restrictive laws on vulnerable communities.
Maybe we should pass laws against Republicans legislators using public bathrooms!
Politico writes...
It’s not just North Carolina. Some of America’s great political struggles have pivoted around who uses which toilet.By NEIL J. YOUNGMay 18, 2016There seems to be no more controversial place in American life right now than the public restroom. It’s become the latest battlefield in the culture wars — an issue so electric that the most powerful politicians in the country have weighed in: President Barack Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump.In 2016, at least 15 states have considered “bathroom bills” similar to the legislation recently enacted in North Carolina, which blocks transgender people from using bathrooms that don’t correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificates. Opponents of these proposals have argued that the real impetus isn’t restroom protocol; it’s part of an ugly attempt by social conservatives to score a victory against a surging LGBT movement.But it would be a mistake to see the bathroom bills as nothing more than a desperate last-minute counterpunch against an ascendant gay-rights movement. There’s a forgotten history at play: For as long as public restrooms have existed, they’ve been a political flash point.
The Republicans look back in history and found it worked once and now they tweaked but it is still about fear...
In 1961’s Turner v. Randolph case, the City of Memphis, Tennessee, employed this exact rationale in opposing the desegregation of restrooms in its public library. “The public welfare” was at stake, the City argued, because venereal diseases were commonplace among blacks, and an integrated ladies’ room would put white women at risk of catching VD from black women. During this era, segregationist literature across the South told parents to keep their daughters home from integrated schools lest they catch VD from young black women now using the school restrooms. In Mississippi, one white second-grade teacher worried that if her school integrated, her white students would “contract syphilis” from toilet seats used by black children.
Fear of those different from them. They then moved their bathroom fear campaign to the gays!
At the same time, public fears about a “homosexual menace” overtaking the nation stoked alarm that young boys faced sexual danger in public restrooms. A police crackdown on same-sex sexual activity in men’s restrooms in the 1950s and 1960s — this at the time when many Americans equated homosexuality with pedophilia — deepened these worries.
They even handed out flyers warning of gay in the bathrooms!
And then we came along and they modified their "fear campaign" to use on us.
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