The bill goes a step beyond existing laws in Utah and 11 other states that bar transgender girls and women from women’s bathrooms at public schools, and in some cases other government facilities.
Utah State University sophomore Marcie Robertson, a transgender woman, was assigned to be the resident adviser for a women’s dorm and share a suite with freshman Avery Saltzman.
Republican legislative leaders pledged to address campus housing after a mother's viral social media post called out a Utah university for not providing prior notice that her daughter would have a trans suitemate.
This is the fourth straight year, she said, that the Republican supermajority has pushed legislation aimed at Utah's tiny transgender population.
Transgender college students in Utah will be prohibited from living in dorms consistent with their gender identity under a bill that cleared its final legislative hurdle Monday.
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