West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey has signed into regulation a invoice that legally defines the phrases “man” and “girl” 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 right down to radical gender ideology,” Morrisey stated whereas signing the invoice.
Beneath 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 amenities, together with restrooms and locker rooms, have to be designated for both intercourse.
“It’s widespread sense that ladies’s areas, like bogs, locker rooms, home violence shelters, and rape disaster facilities needs to be saved personal for ladies solely,” Morrissey stated.
Democrats had argued that the invoice would permit colleges to look at kids’s genitals, however it was amended to specify that “a minor’s intercourse could be verified utilizing their beginning certificates.”
“Organic intercourse of a minor could be decided on the time of the minor’s beginning,” West Virginia Senate Majority Chief Patrick Martin defined.
