Kentucky State Sen. C.B. Embry, Jr.
State Sen. C.B. Embry, Jr. (R-KY) has big legislative plans to end all this silly nonsense about letting people who live in the world as boys use the boy's bathroom and people who live in the world as girls use the girl's bathroom. Somehow, he thinks it would be much better if people living as boys used the girl's bathroom and people living as girls used the boy's bathroom. Confused? That's okay, so is Sen. Embry. Here's the basics
from Camille Beredjick:
On January 9, Republican Senator C.B. Embry Jr. (below) introduced the Kentucky Student Privacy Act (SB 76), which would force transgender students in public schools to use the bathrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
How exactly does Sen. Embry plan to decide who should use which bathroom?
Zack Ford at Think Progress reports that the bill ...
... would force all students to be identified by their “biological sex” as determined by their chromosomes and what was assigned to them according to their anatomy at birth, essentially erasing transgender students.
Is it me, or does that sound a little creepy in an Orwellian kind of way?
Embry tagged his new bill an "EMERGENCY" because "situations currently exist in which the privacy rights of students are violated."
Fire, Fire, Fire!!!
Don't worry, Sen. Embry, you can get help for that.
In the meantime, Atherton High School in Louisville has implemented a policy that's working perfectly well to ensure transgender students can use the facilities that best fit the person they are.
Atherton Principal Thomas Aberli said that after several months, there were no problems with the policy. “Our decisions were founded on facts and on the proper way to treat people,” he explained.