Transgender public restroom initiative fails to make California ballot
A maintenance worker cleans the front doors of a restroom with a gender-neutral sign in West Hollywood in January. A ballot initiative that sought to require transgender people to use the public restrooms that correspond with their biological sex has failed to qualify for the California ballot, backers say.
Backers of a proposed ballot initiative that sought to require transgender people to use the public restrooms that correspond with their biological sex say they have failed to qualify the measure for the California ballot.
Monday was the deadline for the initiative’s sponsors to submit voter signatures to county election offices for verification.
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Karen England of the Privacy for All campaign said in a statement that the volunteer-led effort fell short of the 365,880 signatures needed to get the initiative on the November 2016 ballot. England did not reveal by how much.
Privacy for All’s initiative would have prohibited transgender people from using the single-sex facilities that matched their gender identity unless a doctor confirmed they had undergone sex reassignment surgery.
LGBT rights groups in California had been gearing up to campaign against the initiative in case it qualified.
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