FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A bill that would have banned transgendered students from choosing which bathroom to use at public schools has failed to pass a state Senate committee.
The proposal was in response to a Louisville school's decision to allow students to use the restroom of their sexual identity. The proposal received six of the seven votes required to advance to the Senate floor in the Republican-controlled committee. Two Republicans were absent.
The bill would have allowed transgendered students to use a separate bathroom. But Henry Brousseau, a 16-year-old transgendered student at a private school in Louisville, told lawmakers the bill was hateful because it would single him out from his peers.
Senate Education Committee Chairman Mike Wilson, R-Bowling Green, said the committee could reconsider the bill before the end of the session.
