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Making good on his promise to try and stop schools from adopting guidelines set forth by the State Board of Education concerning transgender students, State Senator Tom Casperson has introduced a bill prohibiting the use of a restroom, locker room or shower designated for use by students of the opposite biological sex.
The bill would require schools to make other accommodations for students who identify themselves as transgender, with written permission from their parents to do so.
“What we’re suggesting is that provisions are made for the young person that struggles with the identity,” Casperson said. “And I think that’s totally appropriate to make sure that we, number one, make provisions for them that are needed. If it means a single bathroom setting, they have access to all of that. I don’t see a problem with that.”
The legislation was met with some opposition in Lansing.
Democratic Senator Coleman Young the 2nd is outraged – he calls the law unenforceable.
“Who’s going to enforce this?,” asked Young. “I mean, what creep is going to sit outside of a shower and look at people and determine whose parts, girl’s bathroom or whatever shower or bathroom they’re at, and kick them out of that?”
Some are comparing Casperson’s bill to North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law, which has sparked a national controversy.
