Some offended group will claim a violation of human rights.
In a rebuke to a Louisville high school, a Kentucky lawmaker is sponsoring a bill that would ban transgender students from using school restrooms that don’t correspond to their anatomical sex.
The “Kentucky Student Privacy Act,” proposed by State Sen. C.B. Embry Jr., R-Morgantown, also would allow students to sue the school for $2,500 when they encounter a person of the opposite biological sex in a bathroom or locker room if staff have allowed it or failed to prohibit it.
“Parents have a reasonable expectation that schools will not allow minor children to be viewed in various states of undress by members of the opposite biological sex,” Embry wrote in Senate Bill 76, filed this month in the state’s General Assembly.
The bill, backed by the Family Foundation of Kentucky, would allow transgender students to ask for special accommodations, such as a unisex bathroom.[…]
Kent Ostrander, director of the Family Foundation of Kentucky, said his group encouraged Embry to file the bill to establish privacy rights.
He said the threat of lawsuits — including recovering $2,500 for each encounter and more for psychological and emotional harm — would help ensure the law is followed if passed.
“Schools need to be sensitive to students who are conflicted with their gender. But they cannot throw out the personal right of privacy” for every other student, he said.