This Wednesday the local congress of the state of Florida, USA, approved a law, forbids people in the trans community to use bathrooms that match your gender identity. Thus, using the “wrong toilet” can be punished as the crime of intrusion. The measure is in addition to a wave of at least four other anti-LGBTIQ+ laws recently enacted in the state.

Chamber law.DomBill) 1521 refers to schools, government buildings, prisons and detention centers. Before being amended, the bill extended the ban to restaurants, gas stations and other private businesses.

Human Rights Watch said the law is “part of a pernicious, degrading and systematic attempt to dehumanize one of our most marginalized communities.”

Currently approved legislation awaits Florida Gov., Republican ultraconservative Ron DeSantis, sign it for entry into force. This type of restrictive legislation was approved in other US organizations like Kansas and Arkansas.

About the American Union’s “Bathroom Laws” political scientist Zayn Murib explains: “The recent increase in the number of “Bathroom Laws” filed in various states and localities provides an opportunity for transgender and gender non-conforming people to safely and succeed in public places. impossible“.

Murib explains in his essay “Managing Biology: Like ‘Toilet Bills’ criminalize and stigmatize transgender people and incongruity of gender in a public place” than the penalties provided for by the Laws of Baños. create a hostile environment against the trans community, and new forms of discrimination and prejudicepromoting “visual inspection” of other people in public places.

“The question of how a child will determine whether he is really “with a person of the opposite biological sex” illustrates latent discriminatory intent in addressing biologysince it is based on what the child observes and makes assumptions about those he meets in the separative spaces, based only on their appearance, ”says Murib.