For Star subscribers: Gov. Katie Hobbs stops the state from prohibiting transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that don't match their sex as assigned at birth.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Arizona's governor has stopped the state from prohibiting transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that do not match their sex as assigned at birth.
It would have required schools to provide a"reasonable accommodation'' to a student who is unwilling or unable to use a facility that matches their sex assigned at birth. "A school rule or a state law or a court decision cannot change that natural instinct of modesty,'' he said."And I think we have to respect that.''
"Quite frankly, I don't know what the percentage of transgender students are,'' Kavanagh said."But I suspect it's well under 1%,'' meaning schools would have to provide special accommodations for the other 99%."Well, 99% of the kids aren't going to be offended or have a problem sharing a bathroom because our young people are remarkably open-minded,'' she said.
Kavanagh then revamped the measure to instead give business owners immunity from civil and criminal prosecution if they turn away someone from a restroom based on the belief of the owner or manager that person should not be using the facility. That variant proved no more successful.
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