DALLAS, November 10, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Dallas city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve an ordinance allowing transgender people to use the “facilities” of the opposite sex.

The measure, which opponents describe as a “bathroom” bill, adds “gender identity” to the city’s 2002 anti-discrimination law alongside race, sex, and sexual orientation.

Mayor Mike Rawlings said, “We’re a very diverse city. We want to make sure everyone is protected.”

The move comes one week to the day after Houston residents voted to repeal the transgender ordinance passed by their city council. More than 60 percent of citizens said no in a landslide defeat of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).

Wary of a similar fate, city council member Lee Kleinman said, “This is not a bathroom ordinance. It is an anti-discrimination ordinance update.”

However, the Dallas ordinance now grants members of one biological sex “access to all places of public accommodation” of their choice.

“Discrimination means any direct or indirect exclusion,” the revised language says.

Although the city’s LGBT Task Force has been working on the wording for a year, its opponents say council members surprised city residents by approving the language during a closed door meeting.

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Source: Ben Johnson, https://www.lifesitenews.com