The Epoch Times The Alabama legislature has passed a bill that restricts access to bathrooms for transgenders, based on their birth sex, and bans the discussion of gender and sexual identities among younger school kids.
The bill, HB 322, was passed by the Senate with a vote of 26 to 5, and then by the House of Representatives with a vote of 70 to 26. âA public K-12 school shall require every multiple occupancy restroom or changing area designated for student use to be used by individuals based on their biological sex,â the bill (pdf) states.
The rule does not apply if a transgender is entering a bathroom to render medical assistance, to receive assistance, while accompanying a student in need of assistance, or other exceptional circumstances. The bill is similar to legislation passed in North Carolina back in 2017 which was later partly repealed after multiple businesses threatened to exit the state…
