Restrooms

Washington’s full Senate narrowly rejected a bill that would have repealed a new state rule allowing transgender people to use bathrooms and locker rooms in public buildings consistent with their gender identity.

AB1732 would help transgender people, parents with children of different genders, and adults caring for aging parents without putting much of a burden on businesses.

The Marionville School District policy allows transgender students to either use a gender-neutral bathroom or a bathroom designated for their biological sex.

All single occupancy restrooms in Philly bars and restaurants are now required to be gender neutral.

A transgender teenager said in a lawsuit Thursday that he has been stigmatized by a policy that bars him from using the boys’ restrooms at his eastern Virginia high school.

The public works committee voted 3-2 in favor of the restrooms, which are designed to cater to the transgender community.

The “Kentucky Student Privacy Act,” proposed by State Sen. C.B. Embry Jr., would allow parents to sue the school for $2,500 if their child encountered a transgender student in a school restroom.

The city of West Hollywood plans to require gender-neutral restrooms to accommodate individuals’ whose gender identity conflicts with their ascribed biological sex.