Washington GOP fights gender-neutral bathrooms

Gender-specific restrooms in Washington state are no longer quite so gender-specific after a Dec. 26 decision by the state’s Human Rights Commission. The decision is something the commission had been working on for more than three years as a way to allow transgender people to use restrooms, locker rooms and other private facilities of the gender they identify with. Two bills proposed by Republicans, one in the House and another in the Senate, look to reverse that decision/Josh Babcock, Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here.