Texas Lawmaker Wants To Throw Transgender People in Jail for Using Public Restrooms

[TexasTowelie]

A Texas state legislator has filed a bill that would make it a crime for transgender people to use public restrooms according to their gender identity.

The proposal from GOP Rep. Debbie Riddle (R) would make it a class-A misdemeanor — punishable by up to one year in jail and a maximum $4,000 fine — for transgender people to use "a locker room, shower facility, or toilet facility designated for use by persons of a gender that is not the same gender as the individual’s gender."

Riddle's HB 1748 would also make it a state jail felony — punishable by up to two years in prison and a maximum $10,000 fine — for a building manager to "repeatedly allow" a transgender person to use such a facility according to their gender identity.

Here's how the bill defines gender:

http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef01b8d0dbeacf970c-800wi

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/02/texas-lawmaker-wants-to-make-it-a-crime-for-transgender-people-to-use-public-restrooms.html#.VOs5lEaY_vM.twitter

Cross-posted in the LGBT Group.

[TexasTowelie]

1. Another article that I read about this proposed bill from the alternative Dallas Observer:

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2015/02/debbie_riddle_restroom_law_based_on_xy_chromosomes.php

There are also sanctions against building owners.