An Upstate senator has introduced a bill largely mirroring North Carolina's controversial law blocking local governments from passing anti-discrimination ordinances covering the use of public bathrooms by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.Sen. Lee Bright brought S. 1203 to the Senate floor on Wednesday, which is says is essentially the same bill as North Carolina's HB2. Full text of bill S. 1203"I've about had enough of this," Bright said. "I mean, years ago we kept talking about tolerance, tolerance and tolerance. And now they want men who claim to be women to be able to go into bathrooms with children. And you got corporations who say this is OK." To watch video of Bright's comments on the bill and his condemnation of companies that object to it, click here.Bright's bill would require public bathrooms be used as deemed by "biological sex."The North Carolina law was passed after the City of Charlotte passed an ordinance giving protection to transgender men and women and allow them to use the bathrooms of the gender they identify as. Weeks later, the North Carolina legislature passed HB2, largely overturning that ordinance.The law's passage brewed a firestorm of controversy as large companies, such as PayPal, have pledged to pull businesses out of the state in response. (More) Several lawsuits have already been filed against the state, challenging the Constitutionality of such measures.Copyright 2016 WIS. All rights reserved.

An Upstate senator has introduced a bill largely mirroring North Carolina's controversial law blocking local governments from passing anti-discrimination ordinances covering the use of public bathrooms by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.

Sen. Lee Bright brought S. 1203 to the Senate floor on Wednesday, which is says is essentially the same bill as North Carolina's HB2.

Full text of bill S. 1203

"I've about had enough of this," Bright said. "I mean, years ago we kept talking about tolerance, tolerance and tolerance. And now they want men who claim to be women to be able to go into bathrooms with children. And you got corporations who say this is OK."

To watch video of Bright's comments on the bill and his condemnation of companies that object to it, click here.

Bright's bill would require public bathrooms be used as deemed by "biological sex."

The North Carolina law was passed after the City of Charlotte passed an ordinance giving protection to transgender men and women and allow them to use the bathrooms of the gender they identify as. Weeks later, the North Carolina legislature passed HB2, largely overturning that ordinance.

The law's passage brewed a firestorm of controversy as large companies, such as PayPal, have pledged to pull businesses out of the state in response. (More)

Several lawsuits have already been filed against the state, challenging the Constitutionality of such measures.

Copyright 2016 WIS. All rights reserved.