AUSTIN (LifeSiteNews) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation on Monday that will require Texas residents to use public bathrooms and changing facilities according to their sex.
“This is just common sense,” said Abbott upon signing the law, which was passed by the Texas House on a 86-45 vote on August 28. It requires Texans to use restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, and shower rooms corresponding to their sex in government-owned buildings, including public schools.
I signed a law banning men in women’s restrooms.
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— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 22, 2025
It also directs the state’s Criminal Justice department to “ensure inmates are housed in a correctional facility” according to their sex and prohibits family violence shelters from offering services to gender-confused men unless they are 17 years old or younger and the child of a woman being served.
Permitting men in women’s facilities, and vice-versa, has been denounced not only for blatantly disregarding reality but for stoking discomfort and fear in females and even encouraging sexual assault.
Numerous sexual assaults (and attempts at such) by men who are supposedly “transgender” have already been documented in women’s facilities, including shelters. For example, in the UK, an 18 year-old male who went by the name “Katie” preyed on a ten-year-old girl in the women’s bathroom at a supermarket, shoving her into a stall to sexually assault her, before she fought back and got away.
In Toronto, a man posed as a transgender woman (“Jessica”) to sexually assault and criminally harass four women — including a deaf woman and a survivor of domestic violence — at two women’s shelters. Previously, he had preyed on other women and girls whose ages ranged from five to 53.
Those who violate the new Texas law will pay a high price: $25,000 for first offenses and $125,000 for second offenses, according to an amendment passed prior to the bill.
The law will go into effect on December. 4.
According to the pro-LGBT Movement Advancement Project, six states besides Texas prohibit people from using bathrooms not corresponding to their sex in all government-owned buildings, and eight other states have a comparable ban for at least some government-owned buildings.
Only Florida and Utah have made it a criminal offense in certain cases for people to use the facilities of the opposite sex.
