Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves Signs Legislation Prohibiting Men From Entering Women’s Bathrooms
Jose Nino
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According to an announcement that Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves made on May 13, 2024, men are currently prohibited from using women’s public restrooms in Mississippi.
Reeves signed the SAFER Act on the morning of May 13. It bans individuals in Mississippi from going into restrooms and other sex-exclusive areas in public buildings that do not correspond with their biological sex, per the bill’s text.
“Today is a win for girls and women across our state, and I was proud to sign SB2753 into law,” Reeves stated. “You have my word that as long as I’m governor, our state will do everything in its power to keep Mississippi’s daughters safe.”
Individuals who enter a bathroom or other sex-exclusive facilities that do not align with their sex and refuse to leave the premises will be hit with a misdemeanor trespassing charge, per the law.
The law mandates all public buildings that maintain a restroom, which includes colleges and universities, to either have male and female-only facilities or a single-occupancy unisex facility.
This newly signed law defines a woman as “a human female who is not a minor” and female as “an individual who has, had, will have through the course of normal development, or would have had, but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, disease, or injury, the reproductive system that at some point produces ova.”
The law’s text does outline some exceptions as well.
Parents, for example, have the ability to chaperone their children of the opposite sex into restrooms under the legislation. Disabled and other vulnerable individuals can also be assisted in entering restrooms by individuals of the opposite sex.
“There’s no doubt that the left will continue to come up with more kooky ideas that harm biological women,” Reeves stated. “And there’s no doubt that Mississippi will continue to push back on them. That’s because we have to—protecting girls and women from the left’s dangerous agenda is just too important to ignore.”
Mississippi isn’t the only state to prevent people from entering bathrooms that do not correspond with their sex. States such as Florida, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Utah, among others, have passed similar bathroom bans.
Red states need to start pushing the envelope on these issues if they want to keep left in check. The time for debating is over. It’s time for legislating against degeneracy and punishing those who try to undermine society.
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