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'Bathroom Bill' on agenda for Special Session in Texas. AUSTIN - With three days left in the Texas Legislature Special Session , Texans, organizations, and lawmakers are continuing to speak out on the bathroom bill.  The two bills filed during the Special Session related to bathroom privacy are Senate Bill 3 (SB3) and House Bill 46 (HB46). SB3 requires people in state, city and county buildings and public and charter schools use multiple occupancy bathrooms , locker rooms and showers according to the sex on their birth certificate or state- issued identification card or CHL. HB46 states cities , counties and school districts can't create and enforce their own policies regarding the use of multiple occupancy restrooms , showers and locker rooms. It makes no mention of gender or sex.   Several civil rights groups gathered at the Capitol Monday to deliver to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House a list of signatures from more than 50,000 Texans who...

With prospects for transgender bathroom limits getting slimmer by the day in the Legislature, opponents kept pressing the gas pedal Tuesday , holding the latest in a series of Capitol events meant to showcase broad disapproval of the most contentious item on a special session agenda filled with hot-button issues. First, dozens of women business and community leaders from across Texas stood on the Capitol’s south steps to say they don’t feel threatened by sharing restrooms with transgender women and don’t appreciate “discriminatory” policies being made in their name. Then officials from the influential Texas Travel Industry Association abandoned months of quiet opposition, telling Gov. Greg Abbott that his effort to limit transgender-friendly bathrooms is smearing the state’s reputation and endangering hundreds of small businesses. “As an industry that depends on a healthy and welcoming Texas brand , these types of public policies are … potentially catastrophic,” David Teel, pres...

By Madison Park, CNN (CNN) -- A controversial bill that would require people to use school restrooms and facilities that match the sex on their birth certificates has died in the Texas Legislature . The so- called bathroom bill , which transgender advocates and major Texas companies had opposed, failed to make it out of the House on Tuesday, the last day of the state's special legislative session . Senate Bill 3 had passed the state Senate earlier during the special session . The potential legislation had divided Texas Republican lawmakers , pitting ardent supporter Lt . Gov. Dan Patrick in opposition to House Speaker Joe Straus . Moderate voices said Texas would face the same backlash North Carolina did last year when it passed a similar but broader bill. North Carolina lawmakers repealed the bill in March after business groups, athletic organizations and entertainers condemned it. "We hope that this time, this issue remains settled : Texans don't want harmful, anti-t...

A shocking leaflet in Australia is urging people to vote ‘no’ to same-sex marriage to avoid getting raped. The bilingual leaflet, printed in English and Chinese, was distributed among the Asian community in Hurstville, Sydney ahead of a public vote on equal marriage . The leaflet, which was posted on Twitter by equal marriage campaigner Sally Rugg encourages people to vote no to equal marriage by raising fears about transgender rights. It says: “If same sex marriage legislation is passed, it would be a threat to the safety of women, creating great fear and harm to them. “For by then, there would be no separate public toilets , changing rooms or shower rooms for male and female. “The transexual ‘counterfeit’ women will be protected under the law, to enter the female toilets including those at schools legally. “This may give rise to the rapists who may masquerade as a ‘transgender woman’ sneaking into the public ‘forbidden land’ for men. “These places may then become easy sport for...

We may miss the nasty vulgarities that the pivoting Donald Trump is said to be leaving behind. Now we’re stuck with the bathroom bills — and Trump’s comment that people should “use the bathroom they feel is appropriate.” So: the mighty-handed Trump, whose wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command beats back Mexican rapists , Muslim terrorists, and black murderers, is — let’s not beat around the bysshe — shrinking like a shriveling shrinking thing before the NewYorkTimesie pushers of gender-neutral bathrooms and showers for high-school kids. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! The bathroom bills , which push back against this latest insanity, bring to mind Randall Jarrell ’s quip in “Pictures from an Institution”: “You have to see it not to believe it.” What astounds is that transgender people aren ’t just interested in bathrooms qua bathrooms (as they probably say in the tony gender-free aeries of progressive liberalism). What they want is to destroy convention itself. Not just ...

Maya Dillard Smith , former executive director for ACLU Georgia" width="600" height="370" /> Maya Dillard Smith , former executive director for ACLU Georgia WASHINGTON – The late journalist Irving Kristol defined a conservative as “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” After the reality of letting men use the women’s restroom hit too close to home for a prominent member of the American Civil Liberties Union , there may be a new conservative in Georgia. Maya Dillard Smith , interim director of the Georgia chapter of the ACLU, resigned after her own young daughters were traumatized by having to share a bathroom with grown men. “I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women’s restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults , over six feet [tall] with deep voices, entered,” she said in a statement. “My children were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of ...

PIERRE | The lone South Dakota Democrat running for governor said Friday that measures restricting which facilities transgender students can use at school amount to "a solution in search of a problem." Sen. Billie Sutton opposed a so- called bathroom bill when it was proposed during the 2016 legislative session. He said in a statement to The Associated Press that local schools have been handling the issue in the best way for their students, a view shared by term- limited Republican Gov . Dennis Daugaard but one that diverges from the top two Republicans vying to replace him. Sutton pointed to the "catastrophic" economic consequences of passing such a measure. A similar law in North Carolina sparked national uproar and costly boycotts before lawmakers rolled much of it back. " South Dakota prides itself on common sense, and laws like this are a solution in search of a problem," the Burke legislator said in the statement. A key conservative group , Fam...

Introduction Approximately 2000 emergency department attendances and 500 hospital admissions following bath water scalds to children occur in the UK each year.1 Admissions mostly occur in children aged under 5 years, often involving prolonged inpatient stays , transfer to a specialist hospital or burns unit.1 The cost of treating a severe scald has been estimated at £250<TS, thin space here>000.1 Longer- term effects include disability , disfigurement or psychological harm. What is already known on this topic ▶ Hot bath water scalds are an important public health problem ; their incidence has not declined over recent years. ▶ Thermostatic mixing valves (TMVs) have the potential to reduce scald risk but there have been no randomised controlled trials assessing their effectiveness and acceptability to families. What this study adds ▶ TMVs and educational leaflets are effective in reducing bath hot tap water temperature in the short and longer term and are acceptable to famil...