Utah Senate backtracks on revised transgender bathroom bill, sends it to the House

The Utah Senate passed a revised version of a bill that restricts what bathrooms and locker rooms transgender people can use in “publicly owned and controlled” buildings. Republican Sen. Dan McCay, the floor sponsor of HB257, introduced a substitution on Jan. 24 that loosened restrictions on which public bathrooms transgender people could occupy. The next day, he proposed another substitution that seemed to return the restrictions back to what was outlined in the original version of the bill. It also defines what a man, woman, female and male is in...