"Bathroom bill" aimed at trans people approved by Texas House after decade of failed attempts

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Texas Tribune

Texas House members clashed over a bill that would restrict which restrooms transgender people can use in government buildings and schools, but ultimately approved it late Thursday.

Representatives approved Senate Bill 8 on a 86-45 vote after several hours of tense debate that was at times interrupted by people in the gallery shouting insults at lawmakers who supported the bill. The House gallery, where visitors can watch proceedings, was emptied out by staff and Department of Public Safety officers after the disruptions continued.

SB 8 would restrict bathroom use in government-owned buildings, public schools and universities based of sex assigned at birth and would not allow exceptions for transgender inmates’ housing in prisons and jails. It would also bar those assigned male at birth from accessing women’s domestic violence shelters, unless they are under 17 and the child of a woman also receiving services.

Bathroom bills proposing civil or criminal penalties for entering restrooms not matching biological sex have been proposed in Texas for more than a decade, and 19 other states have successfully passed their own proposals. The Texas House, however, has largely failed to garner traction for bathroom bills after a tense battle over one proposal in 2017. The Texas Senate has passed six different bathroom bills since 2017.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/28/texas-house-bathroom-bill-transgender/

[Karasu]

1. About what I'd expect fom a state whose governor is trying to rig permanent fascist control in this country.

[ReRe]

3. Gov and AG, that is. n/t

[Skittles]

2. repukes are complete FREAKS

are GENITAL INSPECTIONS next?

DON'T THEY HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO???????????

[ReRe]

4. I'm gonna start carrying a billy club in my big purse

in case one of those SOB'n freaks come looking up my dress or trying to pull down my pants for a "SEX CHECK'!

[Irish_Dem]

7. The MAGA bathroom patrols might get surprised when women start fighting back.

No one is checking my genitals.

Over my dead body and I am serious.

[Joinfortmill]

5. This is so fucking ridiculous.. Europe has had gender neutral public bathrooms for years.

I've used them myself and I'm still alive and well.

[oasis]

10. Excellent point

[Godot51]

6. Fear

There must be a special type of fear that makes these straight, pseudo-christians create such a bill.

Are they afraid of being attracted to transgendered people?

[Joinfortmill]

8. Probably. Likely afraid of their own bodies.

[Bengus81]

9. There is nothing the Texas State Legislature would pass that would surprise me

[Brainfodder]

11. Can't think of actual improvements for the people, instead petty swipes at almost no one affected, weasel behavior?

That tracks, imagine that!
Over used tripe by greedy status quo Republicans trying to stay the course that made them rich and got them where they are?
^thoughts decades old and still here we are, again.

[travelingthrulife]

12. Will the NG be called in to do groin checks?

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. First, how will they enforce this?

Second, do they realize they're forcing transmen - who generally present as male -- into women's bathrooms? Y'know, the ones little girls use?

I don't think repressed women will like that.

[Vinca]

14. Are they going have genitalia guards who make you expose yourself before peeing???

[boonecreek]

15. These nuts are far too obsessed

with other people's junk to be allowed anywhere near a public restroom.
Not my original thought, but it bears repeating.

[LeftInTX]

16. They're cruel.

This is much worse than their 2017 bill.