Idaho Gov. Brad Little this week signed legislation barring transgender students from using school facilities consistent with their gender identity.
R., signed legislation this week, barring transgender students from using school facilities consistent with their gender identity. Republicans ArkansasThe new law will also prevent transgender public school students from using multi-person restrooms or locker rooms that match their gender identity and does not extend to single-occupancy facilities.
A student who encounters a transgender student using bathroom or locker room facilities that are inconsistent with their biological sex assigned at birth is able to sue the school within four years. "Any student who prevails in an action brought under this chapter may recover from the defendant public school five thousand dollars for each instance that the student encountered a person of the opposite sex while accessing a public school restroom, changing facility, or sleeping quarters designated for use by aggrieved student's sex," the law states.
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