Kate Sosin

LGBTQ+ reporter

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Texas is poised to become the latest state to bar transgender people from using public bathrooms after the Senate passed a bill late Wednesday night that also bans transgender people from using locker rooms or from being incarcerated in facilities that align with their genders.

The bill , which Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign, is the latest in a slew of anti-trans measures passed in the state, and the most recent anti-trans bathroom bill passed by states in recent years. Nineteen states already have some form of a transgender bathroom ban, and Texas has weighed more than 16 such bans over the past decade .

The bill sets a $25,000 fine for any government agency or public institutio

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