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    State Lawmakers Considering Bathroom Signage Bill

    Article submittedBy Article submittedApril 4, 2021Updated:May 4, 2021No Comments2 Mins Read
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    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee lawmakers are considering a bill that will ask businesses to put up signs on the bathroom entrances notifying people about who is allowed in which restroom.

    The bill, sponsored by Republican Representative Tim Rudd, is heading to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

    “Where there is an actual policy that the property owner has that allows the opposite sex enter that restroom, you simply have to put a notice outside the restroom door that says that restroom allows the opposite sex,” Rep. Rudd said.

    David Andrews, owner of D’Andrews Bakery & Café, doesn’t see the bill as necessary.

    “They’re trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist,” he said. “I’ve personally never heard of this being an issue anywhere.”

    Rep. Rudd says the bill gives liability protection to businesses.

    “It protects everyone, whether you are a transgender [person] or regardless. If a woman opens the door and sees a man standing in a restroom, she might start screaming and take action,” Rudd said. “If your notice is outside the door it lets everyone know what to expect.”

    But it’s raising questions on whether it’s targeting a specific group of people.

    “There’s pandemic on, and I would think they’d have better things to do than discriminate against a group of people,” Andrews said.

    He also said the bill doesn’t apply to his business because they have a single unisex bathroom, but he says the bill is discriminatory — and Democratic state Representative Mike Stewart agrees.

    “I would have thought that the time for using bathrooms to discriminate against people is something in our far distant past,” Rep Stewart said. “We need to focus on real problems and not on kind of creating make-believe problems.”

    “I don’t want to wait ‘till someone gets harmed — either a heterosexual or transgender [person],” Rep. Rudd said. “We just want to get a proper warning to people.”

    The bill says businesses who fall under the category would have 30 days to put up the signs after being notified they’re not in compliance.

    This story was originally reported by WSMV in Nashville.

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