Texas has become the latest US state to ban trans people from using the correct bathrooms after passing one of the most restrictive laws of its kind in the country.

Republican governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas House bill into law on Monday (22 September), calling it the answer to what he described as a “common sense public safety issue.”

Dubbed the “Texas Women’s Privacy Act,” the bill requires government-owned buildings, state-funded universities, and public schools, to ban trans people from using facilities consistent with their gender identity.

The bill, passed in August , also forces Texas prisons to house trans inmates in jails aligned with their sex assigned at birth and bans trans women from women’s domestic violence shelters entirely.

It is the 20th law of its kind to be pa

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