West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey has signed into regulation a invoice that legally defines the phrases “man” and “lady” strictly primarily based on reproductive biology.
The invoice clearly defines the sexes primarily based on reproductive organs at beginning, not gender id.
“West Virginia won’t bow all the way down to radical gender ideology,” Morrisey mentioned whereas signing the invoice.
Underneath the regulation, the state of West Virginia defines a person as a person who was born with male reproductive organs, and a lady is a person whose reproductive system has feminine reproductive organs.
The regulation additionally states that multi-occupancy services, together with restrooms and locker rooms, have to be designated for both intercourse.
“It’s frequent sense that girls’s areas, like bogs, locker rooms, home violence shelters, and rape disaster facilities must be stored non-public for girls solely,” Morrissey mentioned.
Democrats had argued that the invoice would enable faculties to look at youngsters’s genitals, but it surely was amended to specify that “a minor’s intercourse can be verified utilizing their beginning certificates.”
“Organic intercourse of a minor can be decided on the time of the minor’s beginning,” West Virginia Senate Majority Chief Patrick Martin defined.