OSHA is pushing for trangenders in your restrooms

What does occupational safety have to do with transgenders and bathrooms? Nothing.

Via Weekly Standard:

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) isn’t just about hard hats and safer machinery anymore. The federal government agency charged with regulating workplace conditions has formed an “alliance” with a “national social justice advocacy organization for transgender people” primarily to promote gender-appropriate restroom access. The agreement, signed on April 27, is part of a larger OSHA program to partner with groups “committed to worker safety and health to prevent workplace fatalities, injuries, and illnesses.”
This particular alliance provides for the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) to “[r]eview, promote and disseminate the OSHA-developed bulletin of recommended best practices for restroom access for transgender workers.” In return, the NCTE will disseminate general OSHA information on a quarterly basis via its website or other method as well as provide OSHA representatives opportunities to speak at NCTE events.
The press release announcing the agreement notes:
A report released by NCTE and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force found that 55 percent of transgender people surveyed lost a job due to bias. Twenty-two percent of workers in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey reported that they were denied access to gender-appropriate restrooms on the job.

Florida House advances bill to keep transgenders out of the wrong bathroom...

Bathroom usage should be determined by plumbing, not how someone claims they feel that day. 

Via The Tampa Tribune

After a two hour hearing, a House panel Tuesday cleared legislation cast as “common sense” by proponents, but vocally opposed by the transgender community, which says it’s discriminatory.
The bill (HB 583) makes it a second-degree misdemeanor for someone to use a single-sex restroom if it does not match the gender on that person’s driver’s license or passport.
It has become the most contentious measure during the early parts of legislative session, with hours of testimony during its first two committee stops.
It is sponsored by state Rep. Frank Artiles, a Miami Republican, who says his top goal is public safety. He is specifically taking aim at a Miami-Dade County law that he says is overbroad, and will allow heterosexual men access to women’s bathrooms.