People | May 23, 2016 02:52 PM EDT
Separate Bathrooms by Religion? Oklahoma Opens New Front in Transgender Debate
Oklahoma lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow students to request on religious grounds that their public schools provide a bathroom or other facility that bars transgender people.
The bill appears to be one of the first state-level legislative actions to issued last week, that said students must be allowed to use the facilities that match the gender they identify as, even if that is different from their anatomical sex.
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