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BISMARCK, North Dakota (LifeSiteNews) — North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum announced Wednesday that he signed a law that makes the state’s college students and prisoners use bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their biological sex.
According to the provisions of H.B. 1473, jails, prisons, and public colleges must designate bathrooms, showers, locker rooms in a dormitory or living facility owned by the state board of higher education, as well as penitentiaries and correctional facilities for adults and youths, as “for use exclusively for males or exclusively for females.”
The legislation further requires special accommodations be given to students and prisoners “as deemed appropriate” by prison or college dorm staff. The law passed both houses of the North Dakota legislature with veto-proof majorities.
The bill follows a string of similar bills Burgum signed into law.
One bill, H.B. 1254, signed by Burgum last week, prohibits medical professionals from performing “castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, metoidioplasty, orchiectomy, penectomy, phalloplasty, or vaginoplasty” on minors. It also prohibits a mastectomy and the administration of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Two other bills, H.Bs. 1249
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