Utah poised to become the next state to regulate bathroom access for transgender people

By AMY BETH HANSON
Associated Press

Utah is poised to become the next state to regulate bathroom access for transgender people. On Friday, its Republican-controlled Legislature passed a measure that requires people to use bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools and government-owned buildings that match their sex assigned at birth. Under the measure, trans people can defend themselves against a complaint they used an improper bathroom by proving they have undergone gender-affirming surgery and changed their sex on their birth certificate. The legislation also requires public schools to create “privacy plans” for transgender students and others that may not be comfortable using group bathrooms, for instance by allowing them to use a faculty bathroom.