Illinois House Bill 1286 narrowly passed a bill Thursday that would allow designated multi-occupancy all-gender bathrooms.
The bill sets out standards that all-gender bathrooms would have to meet, such as "inclusive signage" that does not indicate any specific gender; stall dividers with functioning locks controlled by the user; and partitions for each urinal, if urinals are present.
The bill also provides that any multi-occupancy restroom could be converted to an all-gender restroom. But if another single-gender multi-occupancy restroom is located adjacent to or near the all-gender restroom, both would have to be designated as all-gender facilities. "Yeah, there was some, I think, deliberately incendiary information being touted, real falsities about what was in the bill that was leading to, you know, frankly, threats and things that I didn't want to expose my staff and the public to," Stuart said during an interview Thursday. "So we chose to cancel a public event."
"I think it's just the general mood," she said. "Unfortunately, we've gotten to kind of a real ugly place in our politics where people stoke division and fear and hate for political gain. And they're not ashamed to lie in the process."
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