Fucking genital inspections dude. JFC this is evil shit
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At least the measure that would have forced schools to out LGBT+ students to their parents failed. Small comfort, I suppose.
Let the examination of children's genitals commence.
Can the state supreme court still shut this down?
Oh yes. If a relevant suit is filed (which I am assuming will be), and it works it's way up I would fully expect an injunction halting implementation until the lawsuit can be concluded.
In a night of mostly happy news, this was a huge bummer (to say the least).. I don't think it's been called for sure, but it's definitely facing an uphill battle. I think it's going to be up to the courts at this point.
I don't foresee this one ever being enacted into law, as it's pretty clearly a violation of equal protections under the law based on sex, not least because it focuses on trans girls and ignores trans boys, but it still sucks because trans folks still see that, independent of other views, Washingtonians have expressed intolerance towards them. Pretty telling when you look at the vote per county how this broke down -- Seattle is overwhelmingly welcoming and more rural parts of the state are intolerant.
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