"In the modern anti-transgender panic, several states have passed laws banning transgender people from restrooms consistent with their gender identity. Early bills focused primarily on K-12 schools, but the scope quickly expanded. Some states extended bans to even private colleges and universities. Others adopted sweeping "government building" prohibitions, barring transgender people from restrooms in all publicly owned facilities - a far broader category than it sounds, encompassing airports, rest stops, and other everyday spaces."
"A few states went further still, adding punitive enforcement mechanisms; Florida, for example, attached criminal penalties to its ban. Yet one category remained largely untouched: private business bathrooms. That exception is now collapsing. Multiple states are advancing a new generation of bathroom bills that would extend these bans into private businesses for the first time. The first clear sign that private business bathrooms could be targeted came this year in Kansas."
Several states have expanded restroom bans that bar transgender people from using facilities matching their gender identity, beginning with K-12 schools and quickly moving to private colleges and publicly owned government buildings. Some laws added criminal penalties and other punitive enforcement mechanisms. Private business restrooms were largely exempt, but new legislation now aims to remove that exemption and cover private businesses. Kansas passed SB 244 and HB2426 via a rushed gut-and-go process, including provisions revoking transgender drivers' licenses and requiring ones reflecting assigned sex at birth. Other states are pursuing similar measures to extend bans.
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