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The Supreme Court temporarily allowed a transgender boy in South Carolina to use the boys' bathroom while he challenges a state law requiring students to use bathrooms based on their sex at birth, highlighting ongoing legal debates over transgender rights and protections under federal law.
The Florida State Board of Education is set to vote on new rules that would require state colleges to fire employees who use a bathroom other than the one assigned to their sex at birth, despite being asked to leave. The proposed regulation also extends to student housing, potentially forcing transgender students living in dorms to use bathrooms that align with their sex at birth. This comes after Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill in May restricting access to bathrooms, making it a signature issue for his presidential campaign. Critics argue that the proposed rules exceed the authority granted by the law. The State University System is also expected to pass similar regulations, as it is governed by officials appointed by the governor.
Kansas has passed a new law that prevents transgender people from using restrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identities. The law, which will take effect on 1 July, applies to locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and rape crisis centers. The legislation comes as conservative states across the US crackdown on trans rights with extreme laws restricting bathroom access and banning gender-affirming care to minors, and severely restricting such treatment for adults. Critics believe that the new law is an attempt to legally erase trans people and will prompt harassment of trans people as well as nonbinary, gender-fluid and gender-nonconforming people.
Kansas legislators have passed a sweeping anti-transgender bathroom law, which applies to locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and rape crisis centers. The law legally defines male and female based on a person’s reproductive anatomy at birth and declares that “distinctions between the sexes” in bathrooms and other spaces serve “the important governmental objectives of protecting the health, safety, and privacy.” The law is part of a larger push by Republicans across the U.S. to roll back LGBTQ+ rights, particularly transgender rights. Critics argue that the bill’s vagueness will prompt harassment of transgender people.
Iowa schools are now required to comply with a new law that mandates anyone in a school, including students, staff, parents, and visitors, to use restrooms and changing areas that correspond with the biological sex listed on their official birth certificate. The law has raised concerns about the safety and well-being of transgender and non-binary students who are no longer allowed to use the restroom of their choice. School districts are working to comply with the law and provide accommodations for students who want more privacy, but some are concerned about the funding needed to make these accommodations.