Mayor Greg Meister of Porterville, California, has introduced an ordinance prohibiting transgender women from using bathrooms that match their gender identity. He claims the ordinance, titled "Protect Women's Safe Spaces," aims to safeguard biological women and girls, while concurrently removing transgender individuals from women's sports. The proposal is part of a larger governmental trend across the U.S. that restricts transgender rights. Critics argue it represents a systematic attack on transgender individuals and emphasizes unnecessary state control over personal lives, especially given the absence of local incidents justifying the measure.
"Gender dysphoria does not overrule women's rights," Meister said in an interview with The Times. "Women have fought for equality and it's not fair that a biological man can jeopardize their rights."
"This is part of a coordinated attack on transgender people," said Amanda Goad, the director of the LGBTQ, Gender and Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California. "This is part of a broader project to exert more state control over people's bodies and lives."
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