Arizona politicians passed a vote on a bill that would allow businesses to ban transgendered people from using bathrooms that don't match the gender they were born as.
Wednesday's voting on Arizona Senate Bill SB 1045 ended in a 7-4 vote for the bill after hours of testimony from cis-gendered and transgendered citizens.
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Arizona Senate Bill SB 1045 in its new form would protect Arizona businesses from civil or criminal liability if they choose to ban people from using bathrooms that don't match their birth sex.
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The bill in its original form would have instituted a state-wide ban on people using bathrooms that didn't match their birth sex.
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It would have made it a Class 1 misdemeanor to use a restroom that didn't align with the gender listed on a citizen's birth certificate.
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