Texas ‘Bathroom Bill’ Faces Hurdles Ahead Of Vote

But more than 400 people have turned up at the Texas capitol to protest against the measure.

The bathroom bill could get a vote in the full Texas Senate next week. Under Senate rules, 19 senators are needed to bring up a bill in the chamber. But she continued to argue that the bill offered a safeguard protecting the privacy of women and children from men who might enter women’s restrooms with predatory intentions.

Pressed by Rodríguez as to whether she was aware of any crimes that have occurred in bathrooms were carried out by a transgender person, Kolkhorst said none of the perpetrators had identified as transgender.

After doing extensive research on the Internet, Maddie, born “Matthew” and listed as male on her birth certificate, broke the news to her parents near the end of eighth grade.

“It sounds to me like you feel that that’s a man actually going into the women’s bathroom – not a woman”, Rodríguez quipped. She answered she did not. Rodriguez called the bill “problematic” and said it “discriminates on the basis of sex”.

Invited testimony started with a large number of individuals testifying in support of Senate Bill 6.

In the letter, Scott Dupree of the N.C. Sports Association and Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance, wrote: “When the NCAA decides it will no longer conduct events in North Carolina, the Atlantic Coast Conference and many other sports organizations will surely follow”, he wrote.

North Carolina’s Lt. Governor Dan Forest attended the press conference to lend his support.

Forest refuted reports that the bill has had a negative economic impact in North Carolina. Under the bill Marcy would be required to use the boy’s bathroom at her school because that’s the gender on Marcy’s birth certificate.

Other speakers debated the nature of sex and gender, some saying that transgender people should be respected but anatomy must also take legal precedence over one’s sense of self. and some speakers suggested that anatomy was the true dividing line.

But the Republican senator faced resistance from within his own party, including Senator Jeremy Hutchinson of Benton.

Straus, a moderate Republican now in his fifth term leading the House, attempted to illustrate his point by noting that the House Public Education Committee was getting ready to tackle the thorny topic of making adjustments to the school finance system while the Appropriations Committee continued work the state budget.

A new face joined the Republican Senators backing the bill, Democratic Senator Eddie Lucio (Brownsville). And as expected, state Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, seemed supportive of the bill through their comments and questions. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo.

Rachel Gonzales, of Dallas, came to the Capitol to testify on behalf of her transgender daughter Libby, 7.

The law does not provide a way to enforce it; there is no bathroom place. These offenses would continue to be illegal. They also flew in North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, who championed his state’s bathroom bill and accused the media of creating a false picture of economic upheaval. “I will never forget the moment that we walked into the store and I said, ‘Okay, you can pick up girl’s clothes.’ And it was, I mean, life changing – like a light opened up and she was ecstatic”.