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TexasTowelie

(116,747 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 06:05 PM Jan 2017

Bill would amend Wyoming civil rights law to regulate bathroom use

A Cheyenne legislator wants to amend civil rights-era legislation to bar transgender individuals from using public bathrooms in Wyoming.

People would be subject to imprisonment for using a bathroom that does not correspond to their “sex identified at birth by the person’s anatomy” under House Bill 244, which would expand the crime of public indecency.

To be charged with public indecency under the existing law, a person must engage in an activity “with the intent of arousing the sexual desire of himself or another person.”

Sponsor Rep. Lars Lone, R-Cheyenne, declined to speak with a Star-Tribune reporter at the Wyoming Legislature.

Read more: http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/bill-would-amend-wyoming-civil-rights-law-to-regulate-bathroom/article_2a60c7b3-37cf-5963-9894-d669b6501b7b.html

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Bill would amend Wyoming civil rights law to regulate bathroom use (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2017 OP
Can of worms HassleCat Jan 2017 #1
We all know...it's not about the bathroom n/t hibbing Jan 2017 #2
So a question here SoCalNative Jan 2017 #3
Gee, why do I always get the difficult questions? TexasTowelie Jan 2017 #4
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
1. Can of worms
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 06:12 PM
Jan 2017

Some restrooms are for either gender, but will that be a problem? The new law apparently wants people who had gender reassignment surgery to go back and use the bathroom of pre-reassignment. Is that what they really want? Really?

SoCalNative

(4,613 posts)
3. So a question here
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 06:18 PM
Jan 2017

these bathroom bills always denote "sex identified at birth"..but for those of us who have been able to amend and get new birth cerificates with a new gender/sex deisgnation..how would that work exactly? And would we then need to carry copies of our birth certificates with us, even though our legal IDs denote our new and proper gender markers?

TexasTowelie

(116,747 posts)
4. Gee, why do I always get the difficult questions?
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 06:34 PM
Jan 2017


The professor didn't say that this would be on the test.
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