AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) — Senate Bill 6, otherwise known as the “bathroom bill,” will go to a vote today in the Texas Senate.
Experts anticipate the bill to pass in the Senate, and if passed, it will then go to the Texas House where its future is less certain.
State Senator Van Taylor told the Chris Salcedo show on WBAP it would be a shame for the bill to fail because he believes the burden of deciding a major issue shouldn’t be left up to school districts.
“The purpose of a school board is to educate children, not to grapple with this issue,” Taylor said. “It’s the job of the legislature to handle a hard issue like this.”
The bill, if passed, would require people to use the restroom of the gender they’re born as. Taylor says he has received numerous concerns from parents in his district, saying it’s possible they could move kids away from government-funded schools if the bill fails.
“Parents are very edgy about, ‘I don’t want my little girl to have to use the same shower or locker room as boys,'” Taylor said. “‘That’s just absolutely unacceptable to me. That’s nothing I want.'”