OKLAHOMA CITY – As the transgender bathroom debate continues to heat up, an Oklahoma senate committee passed legislation pushing against the Obama administration’s recent directive.
On Friday the Senate Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget approved a bill that would gives schools a way to prohibit students or their parents from using the bathroom not applicable to the gender in which they were born.
SB 1619 passed 20 to 15 and “defines a person’s sex as ‘the physical condition of being male or female, as identified at birth by that individual’s anatomy."
It goes on to say that if a school district adheres to the Obama administration's directive, then they must also provide “a religious accommodation for students or their parents who object to the policy.” It goes on to say that just providing a “single-occupancy restroom, or shower, or changing facility will not be an allowable accommodation.”
