Texas lawmakers have passed a bill banning transgender people from using public restrooms that align with their gender identity.

Texas Senate Bill 8 prohibits transgender people from using multiple-occupancy bathrooms and changing rooms that match their gender identity in schools and government-owned buildings.

The measure, passed late Wednesday, also requires prison inmates in state custody to be housed according to their biological sex and bars transgender women from women’s domestic violence shelters, unless they are dependents of a biological woman who is also accessing services.

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