Transgender Restrooms

“In announcing her resignation, Maya Dillard Smith called for civil discourse on the issue of competing civil liberties. A frightening encounter she and two of her daughters had in a women’s restroom with three persons ‘who were obviously men’ forced her to study more deeply the intersection of civil rights and public safety.” World

“House Bill 4253 …provides that those who identify as transgender shall not be subject to discrimination in such public places as hospitals and restaurants, and will allow those who are transgender to use the rest- and locker-rooms of the gender with which they identify.” Jurist

“In the battle across the U.S over providing transgender access to public restrooms, key groups are divided about the effects of such a policy.”