Transgender Bathroom Laws Oklahoma

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill in 2022 which immediately enacted an anti-trans bathroom policy in the state. Here's what you need to know. On August 1, 2023, Governor Stitt signed Executive Order 2023-20 (EO), discriminating against people who are transgender in Oklahoma.

Below are some explanations of what this EO means for the people of our state. The Oklahoma bill requires districts to restrict bathroom access by students' sex. If schools don't comply, they face a 5% deduction in state funding.

About a dozen conservative states have passed laws targeting the transgender population over bathroom use, participation in school sports, and gender-affirming treatments or surgery for young people. The bill passed overwhelmingly in the Republican-controlled House and Senate last week, and Stitt signed it on Wednesday. Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three transgender Oklahoma schoolchildren against the state's new anti.

Bill 615 was passed in the context of the 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States, and was one of many bathroom bills passed during this period. Other bills restricting transgender rights were proposed or brought to the Oklahoma Legislature since 2020, and the advocates and parents of transgender children in Oklahoma became concerned that transgender youth were being targeted in the. A judge dismissed a lawsuit from three transgender students challenging Oklahoma's law on school bathroom use.

The plaintiffs have appealed. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law a bill that requires students at public schools and public charter schools to use restrooms and locker rooms that match the sex listed on.

The legislation came partly in response to a transgender-inclusive restroom policy adopted by schools in Stillwater, Okla. Ryan Walters, then Oklahoma secretary of education and now state. Three transgender students filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, arguing an Oklahoma law governing school bathroom is discriminatory and unconstitutional.

Under the law, transgender students now face discipline by their schools for using a school restroom or locker room that corresponds to their gender identity.