Remember that "bathroom bill" requiring people in North Carolina to use the restroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate? There's a version proposed in Missouri — and it gets a hearing tomorrow in a state Senate committee.SB 98, introduced by Senator Ed Emery (R-Lamar), would require that any public school bathrooms or locker rooms accessible to multiple students at the same time be limited to those of "the same biological sex"— defined in the bill as the one "identified at birth by a person's anatomy and indicated on their birth certificate."
In that definition, it echoes the North Carolina bill, although the North Carolina bill applied not just to schools but all government buildings.
Upon passage, the North Carolina bill led to a firestorm in the state.…