HB26 requires the Utah Board of Higher Education to provide universities with instructions for complying with legislation.

Utah’s only openly LGBTQ lawmaker choked back tears Tuesday as she pleaded for her state House colleagues not to pass another bill aimed at the transgender community. This marks the fourth year in a row that the state has moved to do so.

The Utah House passed HB269, a bill that would require public universities that provide on-campus housing to only rent sex-designated rooms to biological females and biological males, as Democrats made an emotional appeal against making LGBTQ+ Utahns fearful to live in the state.

A bill requiring students living in Utah public university dormitories to only stay in areas assigned to their sex at birth easily advanced in the House on Tuesday.

Being afraid of someone different from yourself is no reason to bully them,” said the mother of a USU R.A. who has become the center of a firestorm that in part inspired a new bill limiting where transgender students can live in public school dorms.