Baton Rouge (Louisiana, USA), June 20, 2024.
Another US state, Louisiana, has passed a law requiring students and juvenile inmates to use restrooms, showers, locker rooms and dormitories only according to their biological sex, not their "self-identified" gender identity, as the pernicious LGBT ideology [the movement is banned in Russia - note. continues to be enforced at the state level, according to the Christian Post website.
Louisiana's new governor, 53-year-old Republican Jeff Landry, signed HB608, known as the "Women's Safety and Protection Act," into law. It was overwhelmingly approved by the Louisiana House of Representatives (80 in favor, 17 opposed) and the Louisiana Senate (29 in favor, 10 opposed). Both the House of Representatives and the The Louisiana Senate is controlled by Republicans. Notably, 10 Democrats in the House and one Democrat in the Senate voted in favor of the legislation.
The new law clearly defines terms such as "man," "boy," "father," "woman," "girl," and "mother." The law stipulates that "sex" is "the biological sex of a person, male or female, clinically determined and registered at birth" and emphasizes that "gender identity (socio-psychological sex) and other subjective terms are not used in this area and cannot be synonyms or substitutes for sex".
The law requires domestic violence crisis centers, public schools, juvenile correctional facilities, and juvenile detention centers to provide separate multi-occupancy bathrooms, locker rooms, and sleeping rooms for the exclusive use of either male or female persons and to ensure that only members of one sex use these facilities. The law provides for a right of action to enable any person who alleges a violation of the law to seek judicial redress and/or damages.
The measure was praised by the influential Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (hereafter: ADF).
"States have an obligation to protect the privacy, safety, and dignity of women and young girls. Yet some lobbying organizations and even the Biden administration are demanding that states abandon the centuries-old tradition of designating and equipping sanitary facilities separately for males and females," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Matt Sharp.
"This radical social experiment, which is particularly harmful to children and women at risk of violence, goes against common sense and even the plain language of federal law. Allowing men into spaces designated for women - whether in public schools, correctional facilities, or domestic violence crisis centers - is an invasion of their privacy and a real threat to their safety," he warned.
The passage of the "Women's Safety and Security Act" is tied to a new policy allowing transgender people to enter the facilities reserved for persons of the opposite sex, which many have concerns about women's safety. In 2021, at a school in Loudon County, Virginia, a male student who described himself as "gender fluid" [a gender fluid person does not identify as male or female, but occasionally feels like a woman or a man] raped a ninth-grade girl in the girls' restroom.
The school district was accused of covering up the rape because the public only learned about the incident after the school board voted and passed an ordinance officially allowing transgender students to use the opposite-sex restrooms.
It's also reported that the passage of the "Law Against Discrimination Against LGBT People" in the state of California led to a Korean spa allowing a transgender man to be nude in the women's locker room and spa area where there were nude girls.
Similarly, laws allowing transgender men to be held in women's prisons and other correctional facilities have led to female inmates being are being sexually assaulted by men pretending to be "transgender."
Louisiana is now one of 12 states that have enacted similar prohibitive laws against transgender people. In Alabama, Mississippi and North Dakota, people have been required to use sanitary facilities that correspond to their biological sex in kindergarten and schools (grades 1 through 12 inclusive, that is, elementary, middle and high school) and "at least some public facilities."
Similar laws in Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Tennessee apply only to public schools. And Florida and Utah require people to use sanitary facilities appropriate to their biological sex in "all public buildings and institutions, including day care centers, all schools, colleges and other institutions."
Source: https://www.christianpost.com
