An Arkansas House panel advanced legislation preventing transgender people at public schools from using restrooms that match their gender identity.
advanced by a state House committee would require transgender students to use the restroom of their gender assigned at birth, instead of using the restroom matching their gender identity.
"Every child in our school and each school has a right to privacy and to feel safe in their bathrooms at school," Rep. Mary Bentley, R-Perryville, said at a hearing of the bill last week. , sponsored by Rep. Bentley, would require public schools and open enrollment public charter schools to bar people from using a restroom that does not correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificate.
The bill also states that superintendents, principals or the administrative head of an open enrollment public charter school who are found to be in noncompliance with the bill will receive a 15% salary cut in the following fiscal year. If passed, the bill also states that parents of students who encounter a member of"the opposite sex" in a multiple occupancy restroom"shallThe measure now advances to the majority-Republican House, which could be voted on as soon as Wednesday.
"For states to be passing these kinds of bills at this point is really them issuing a challenge to the federal government and saying, ‘We know that this is what you think the law says, and we’re ready to do battle with you,’" said Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senior counsel of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest
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