Utah auditors office still unable to substantiate any trans bathroom ban complaints [Video]

The Utah auditor has so far been “unable to substantiate” the handful of “possible good-faith efforts” to report violations of the state’s ban of transgender people using bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity in government buildings, the office announced Wednesday.

Auditor John Dougall issued a statement last month saying of the more than 12,000 bogus complaints it has received since a reporting form went live in early May, it could not verify four of the five potentially “plausible” allegations. An investigation into the fifth one, Dougall said Wednesday, also turned up nothing.

Passed during the first two weeks of this year’s legislative session, Morgan Republican Rep. Kera Birkeland’s “Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying and Women’s Opportunities,” or HB257, creates legal definitions of “female” and “male” that categorize Utahns by the reproductive organs of their birth, and restricts which bathrooms and locker rooms trans people can use in government-owned buildings. It also …