Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill (pdf) on Thursday blocking transgender males from using female public school bathrooms.
The Republican-backed bill would’ve required schools to provide transgender students their own restroom facility but wouldn’t have allowed them to use restrooms designated for the gender they identify as.
 Senate Bill 1040 (pdf) is “yet another discriminatory act against LGBTQ+ youth passed by the majority at the state Legislature,” Hobbs wrote in her veto letter.
Hobbs vowed to “veto every bill that aims to attack and harm children.”
Governor-elect of Arizona Katie Hobbs speaks to attendees at a rally to celebrate Hobbs’s victory in Phoenix, Ariz., on Nov. 15, 2022. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
Under the bill, public schools in Arizona would have to establish other accommodations for students who refused to use a multi-occupancy bathroom or change areas of the gender they were assigned at birth. The law would also have applied to sleeping quarters on school-sponsored overnight trips….