Kentucky proposal: Encounter a transgender person in the wrong restroom, sue for up to $2,500
Kentucky state Sen. C.B. Embry (R) (above) introduced a bill banning transgender students from using school restrooms and locker rooms designated for the opposite biological sex. (Courtesy of Facebook).
A proposal in the Kentucky legislature would require that transgender students avoid school restrooms, locker rooms and showers that dont correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
The Kentucky Student Privacy Act, sponsored by Republican state Sen. C.B. Embry, is also designed to punish school administrators who give transgender students access to school facilities designated for the opposite sex.
Parents have a reasonable expectation that schools will not allow minor children to be viewed in various states of undress by members of the opposite biological sex, nor allow minor children to view members of the opposite sex in various states of undress, the bill states.
If a school administrator allowed a transgender student to use a facility designated for the opposite sex or if a school failed to take reasonable steps to prohibit the person encountered from using from facilities designated for use by the opposite biological sex, students would be allowed to sue the school, according to the bill.
Aggrieved students could seek up to $2,500 in damages from the offending school for each time they encountered a person of the opposite sex in school facilities....
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