Indiana - GOP lawmakers pass “most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ bill”...

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

GOP lawmakers pass "most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ bill" as protestors explained how it's unworkable

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/gop-lawmakers-pass-most-extreme-anti-lgbtq-bill-as-protestors-explained-how-its-unworkable/ 🔗

Alex Bollinger (2 Feb 2026)

A bill that is being called the "most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ bill" in Indiana was passed by the state's Senate last week.

S.B. 182 contains several provisions. First, it defines sex and gender in terms of reproductive organs and applies that definition to all laws in the state. Second, it says that trans students can only use the restrooms associated with their sex assigned at birth. Moreover, it allows students to sue schools if a trans classmate breaks this rule. Third, it forces jails and prisons to house trans inmates with their sex assigned at birth.

S.B. 182 passed the state Senate in a 37-8 party-line vote last week. The bill's author, state Sen. Liz Brown (R), said that the bill is necessary to protect "women" in "their private spaces."

"We're not singling anyone out," she said. "You can continue to identify any which way you want. But if you're born a male, you're going to the male bathroom. Pretty simple. You're born a female, going to the female bathroom."

"Already statistics show that almost three-quarters of all trans students have been subject to bullying and harassment," Emma Vosicky, one of the protestors, told the Indy Star. "This bill is going to force kids even further out in the open. So we're asking little trans girls to show up in the bathrooms, in the boys' bathrooms, and what do we really think is going to happen to them when they get there?"

[Lori Dee ✅]

We need lots of trans boys in the girls' bathrooms.

Malicious compliance.