LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Michigan House Republicans have introduced new legislation that would require transgender students to use restrooms and changing rooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth. The proposal, called the “Student Restroom Privacy Act,” is part of an ongoing debate over school policies related to gender identity.

The bill, House Bill 4024, if passed, would apply to all public and private schools, colleges, universities, and other academic institutions in Michigan.

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22 House Republicans have joined the bill as co-sponsors – with no Democratic support. The Democrats and LGBTQ advocates see this bill as yet another legislative swing at an already vulnerable community.

The Michigan House Progressive Women’s Caucus called the move a “further attack on privacy,” while the advocacy group GLAAD noted that transgender people are far more likely to be harassed in public restrooms than to harass anyone else.

Bill is mostly symbolic and unlikely to move ahead.

Republicans hold a majority in the state House but it’s unlikely that this bill will move beyond that chamber since the Democrats control the state senate – and then the legislation would have to be signed into law by Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. That is very unlikely.

The bill follows President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize a person’s sex assigned to them at birth.

In addition to that, the Dept. of Education has scrapped former President Biden’s Title IX changes, after a federal judge struck down the new regulations that Biden finalized last spring. Under Biden’s rules, it allowed students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that aligned with their gender identity.