While much of the nation appears to be adjusting to the transgender rights movement, social conservatives in the Texas Legislature — prodded by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican — continue their obsessive campaign to restrict the bathroom rights of transgender citizens.

They are fighting to the very end of the current special session, in the face of a storm of powerful opposition that ranges from the state’s Fortune 500 companies and business leaders to police chiefs, sports and tourism executives, concerned parents, and pastors in an evangelical community divided over the lack of basic charity underlying the anti-transgender legislation.

Even so, the State Senate passed Mr. Patrick’s restrictive measure last month mandating that transgender Texans use only those public bathrooms that match the sex on their birth certificates, not those matching the gender with which they identify. The measure also blocks moves by many sympathetic local governments to pass nondiscrimination laws that guarantee transgender people the right to use the bathrooms of their choice.

In the vote, the Senate chose to ignore the ignominious fate of North Carolina legislators who had to retreat from similar narrow-minded restrictions this year in the face of a revolt by business and community leaders and a boycott by influential institutions that cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and business profits. Texas senators also ignored the practical question of how this mandate would ever be enforced, considering the factors of privacy and documentation at stake.