Mon Jun 5, 2023 – 9:34 am EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — There is no right within Ohio or federal law for gender-confused individuals to use whatever bathroom they want, the state’s attorney general concluded recently in a legal analysis.
Attorney General Dave Yost released a 26-page legal opinion in response to a question by Greene County Prosecuting Attorney David Hayes. Legal opinions are not binding but provide interpretation for government entities.
Part of the question revolved around the interpretation of the 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, which read into Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protections for “gender identity” and gender-confused individuals.
Yost notes that “the Court expressly refused to consider whether policies and practices relating to bathrooms, locker rooms, or dress codes qualify as unlawful discrimination based upon sex.”
The attorney general refuted the claim by the state’s Civil Rights Commission that Bostock required the commission to issue a ruling that all bathrooms and locker rooms had to be open to gender-confused individuals on the basis of their declared sex. Yet “the Commission’s announcement contains no legal reasoning supporting its conclusion [and] that interpretation ought not be given any
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