Oklahoma is on the brink of enforcing a law that would require transgender students at public schools and public charter schools to use restrooms and locker rooms that do not match their gender identity.
“It’s about safety, it’s about protection, it’s about common sense,” Williams said.
“Let us be clear, not only does this policy make trans students unsafe, it creates a hostile, unsafe environment for all students,” McAfeeOklahoma’s legislature passed the bathroom bill May 19 after debating the bill in both chambers for several hours: It passed the Senate 38-to-7 and 69-to-15 in the House.by becoming the first in the country to explicitly ban nonbinary gender markers on birth certificates for people who identify as male or female.
“S.B. 615 plainly violates Title IX and the Constitution,” Nguyen said. “We know that nearly every court to even consider this issue has held that it’s illegal to bar trans youth from restrooms that align with their gender identity.”
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