AUSTIN (KXAN) — Lawmakers and advocates on both sides of Senate Bill 8, which would mandate state agencies and political subdivisions "take all reasonable steps" to maintain the sex-segregation of private multiple-occupancy spaces, reacted to its passage Thursday in the Texas House of Representatives.

Five civil rights advocacy and legal groups released a joint statement in opposition to SB 8 Thursday evening: ACLU of Texas, Equality Texas, Texas Freedom Network, Lambda Legal and the Human Rights Campaign.

“This bill is bad for trans and intersex people, bad for cisgender people, bad for business, bad for public health and safety, and bad for Texas. Transgender people have always been here and always will be."

Ash Hall, ACLU-TX's LGBTQIA+ policy and advocacy strategist, called it "uncon

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