This amendment, if it becomes law, would leave transgender students even more vulnerable to being stigmatized and bullied.”With the House vote on Sunday, the measure is likely to become law. The Texas Senate already passed a harsher version of the same one. The compromise doesn’t go as far as the bill that passed the Texas Senate in March. But it makes it so that if students don’t want to use facilities designated for the sex they were assigned at birth, they must be able to access another facility. Some 32 percent of respondents said they’d limited food or drink in order to avoid a trip to a public bathroom.

Source: Huffington Post May 22, 2017 18:26 UTC