The Washington state Senate Law and Justice Committee has approved a bill along party lines -- with Republicans voting for it and Democrats voting against it -- that would criminal transgender bathroom use.
Senate Bill 6548 would make it illegal for transgender people to use the restroom that corresponds with the gender they identify as.
Republicans on the Senate Law and Justice Committee approved a bill designed to set aside rules by the Human Rights Commission allowing transgender people to use facilities based on the gender with which they identify. Minority Democrats said it was removing important protections for people in the transgender community.
Senate Bill 6548 says people cannot use a restroom, bathroom, locker room or sauna if they have “genitalia of a different gender from that for which the facility is segregated.”
Bill 6548 will be voted on by the full Washington state Senate after it passes through the Rules Committee, but even if this bill fails the state legislature has a similar bill in the pipeline.
As you may recall, Washington state Representative Graham Hunt (R) introduced a similar bill (HB 2589) several weeks ago because, as he sees it, if you have a penis you're probably a predator.
“I’ve tried to make this about genitalia,” Hunt admitted to the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal. “If you don’t have the parts… if you don’t have the plumbing, then you don’t go in.”
In an interview earlier this month, Hunt made clear he sees male genitals as a “security concern” in and of themselves. “If you’re non-operative or pre-operative, having access to a facility that is different from the genitalia that you have, that’s where the security concerns come in.”
"The parts."
I guess we can't expect Neanderthals like Representative Graham Hunt (R) or Law and Justice Committee Chairman Mike Padden (R) to understand that "the parts" are not what determine the identify of a transgender person nor does possessing different parts make them a "security concern" any more than anyone else.
These lawmakers are the real security concern. These men are far more preoccupied by the genitalia of children than anyone should be.
This is Big Republican Government squeezing into your pants.