The mayor of the city of California has introduced a statute that prohibits trans women from using bathrooms with gender identity, marking the latest effort to limit trans rights.
Portville Mayor Greg Meister, about 60,000 cities in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Tulare County – proposed the proposal Wednesday at a city council meeting, saying his target It is to protect biological girls and women.
The “Protecting Women’s Safe Spaces” Ordinance will prohibit trans women from entering the restrooms and locker rooms of their gender identity. Mester said at a city council meeting that the ordinance also attempted to remove trans women and girls from women’s sports.
“Gender irritability does not overturn women’s rights,” Mester said in an interview with The Times. “It is unfair for women to fight for equality, a biological man who jeopards his rights.”
Local regulations are part of the increasing efforts of governments at all levels – from Local school board arrive The federal government under President Trump – Trans women are prohibited from entering women’s facilities.
“It’s part of a coordinated attack on trans people,” said Amanda Goad, director of the LGBTQ, Gender and Reproductive Justice program at ACLU in Southern California. “This is part of a broader project that aims to implement more national control over people’s bodies and lives.”
Meister agrees that his regulations are part of national trends and are not based on local issues.
He said no one, including women’s rights groups, contacted him about the ordinance he proposed himself. He also said that in Portville, trans women have no toilets they like, no instances. He said he didn’t know if any trans people live in Porterville and had no trans friends.
Although the issue hasn’t appeared in Portville, Mester said he wants to face it before it becomes a problem.
The city council voted unanimously on Wednesday, five to zero, to approve the sending of Mester’s motion to city attorneys and city managers for review. The language can still be changed, and New York City will comply with California law and do only legal things, Mester said.
“They will look at the language, see what is reasonable and legal from their perspective, and then take it back to the council to make a decision. I’m sure it will be chopped,” he said.
Goad said the ban could have many legal issues, including constitutional issues under the Equal Protection Clause and possible violations of California law.
“If it is actually made, it is likely to be challenged,” Goad said.
