Indiana state Senator Jim Tomes (R) has introduced a bill that would prohibit all public schools from allowing transgender students to use a restroom that corresponds with the gender they identify as, and that would be bad enough all on its own, but the state senator's bill would also criminalize basic bodily functions for transgender people.
[The] bill mandates that any transgender person who uses a public sex-specific restroom, locker room, or shower room that matches their gender identity has committed a “single sex public facility trespass,” which it deems a Class A misdemeanor. A Class A misdemeanor is the highest non-felony charge in Indiana, punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $5,000 dollars.
Short of hiring a force of body inspectors who screen genitalia at the bathroom door or mandating that law enforcement closely monitor the location and bodily functions of transgender people, it's not clear how Jim Tomes hopes to enforce this hilariously-unconstitutional law.
How much law enforcement time could be wasted following up on citizen snitch reports of possibly illegal bathroom use?
That can't be real, right? "Illegal bathroom use." Are there any adults in the Indiana state senate?
If Indiana lawmakers are ghoulish enough to pass this bill, it will be struck down in the first federal courtroom it lands in.