Houston-Area Republicans File Anti-Trans Budget Amendments
With the so-called bathroom bill stalled in the Texas Legislature, two Republican state lawmakers from the Houston area have introduced anti-transgender amendments to the budget, which will be considered by the House on Thursday.
The discriminatory measures from freshman Representatives Valoree Swanson, R-Spring, and Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, are among more than 400 proposed amendments to the Legislature’s $218.2 billion, two-year appropriations bill.
Swanson’s amendment would prohibit agencies funded by the state from using those monies to “construct, renovate or reclassify” restrooms, showers or locker rooms “to allow or enable a man to enter a women’s restroom facility or a woman to enter a man’s restroom facility.”
Unlike the bathroom bill, Senate Bill 6, Swanson’s amendment doesn’t base sex on birth certificates, or define “man” or “woman” in any way.
Read more: http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2017/04/houston-area-republicans-file-anti-trans-budget-amendments/
