Activists have staged a sit-in demonstration in a women’s toilets in the Texas state capitol building to protest against a proposed anti-trans “bathroom bill.” The demonstrators were voicing their opposition to a senate bill, that proposes that spaces such as toilets, changing rooms and women’s shelters should be designated on the basis of an “individual’s biological sex”. The proposed legislation sets a fine of $5,000 (£3,700) first-time offences by government agencies or educational establishments, rising to $25,000 (£18,500) for subsequent violations. Supported by the Gender Liberation Movement, the protest was inspired by a previous demonstration against congresswoman Nancy Mace’s ban on trans lawmakers in the US Capitol, in Washington DC, using “single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex”. Nine cis and trans people sat in the Texas toilet for about an hour, holding posters calling state senator Mayes Middleton, who sponsored the bill, a “bathr...