Local queer-owned businesses in Ogden are showing their support for the transgender community after Utah lawmakers passed a bill restricting public restroom access based on sex designated at birth.
On Tuesday, Gov. Spencer Cox signed two controversial bills into law a bill impacting which restrooms transgender people can use and an anti-DEI bill that limits those programs in education. H.B. 257 bans transgender people from using restrooms, locker rooms and dressing rooms that differ from their sex at birth in government-owned and.
H.B. 257, which would prevent transgender people from entering sex-designated private areas in publicly funded facilities that align with their gender identity, is fast-tracking its way through the Utah legislature. The bill, after undergoing changes, substitutes and reverts, would primarily restrict transgender individuals from using public restrooms, locker rooms and dressing rooms. If the.
The Utah House of Representatives refused to concur with the Senate's amendments regarding the controversial bathroom bill that would direct people on which bathroom they can and cannot use.