"The "Public Government Restroom Facilities Regulation Act" requires all government buildings, including the University of Puerto Rico, to maintain sex-segregated multi-occupancy restrooms, and bans transgender and nonbinary people from accessing bathrooms that do not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. It also "prohibits the installation of mixed or gender-neutral multi-occupancy restrooms in government facilities," according to a February 25 press release."
"The press release notes that the law "is consistent with Executive Order 14168 issued by President Donald J. Trump.""
""Those who advocate for the existence of multi-occupancy gender-neutral bathrooms argue that they need to protect the safety and well-being of those who identify as something other than their biological sex," the legislation reportedly states. "This constitutes a depreciation and even an erasure, conscious or not, of a problem that is worthy of consideration, which is that there have been many instances, regrettably, where men who self-identify as women have entered women's bathrooms to assault and rape them.""
"The text of the law goes on to cite "women on the University of Pennsylvania's swim team" who claimed that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas (who"
Puerto Rico became the first U.S. territory to pass an anti-trans bathroom ban into law. Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón signed H.B. 165 after passage by the Puerto Rican Legislative Assembly. The Public Government Restroom Facilities Regulation Act requires sex-segregated multi-occupancy restrooms in government buildings, including the University of Puerto Rico. The law bans transgender and nonbinary people from using bathrooms that do not align with the sex assigned at birth. It also prohibits installing mixed or gender-neutral multi-occupancy restrooms in government facilities. The law states it is consistent with Executive Order 14168 issued by President Donald J. Trump. It claims the policy protects cisgender women and cites allegations about men entering women’s bathrooms to assault and rape, along with references to transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.
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