West Virginia HB2006

The purpose of this article is to: (1) Reaffirm the longstanding meaning of sex, male, and female in state law. (2) Preserve women's restrooms, multiple occupancy restrooms or changing rooms, and sleeping quarters for women in facilities where women have been traditionally afforded privacy and safety from acts of abuse, harassment, sexual assault, and violence committed by men. (3) Bring clarity, certainty, and uniformity to the laws of the state regarding sex discrimination, privacy, equality of the sexes, and benefits or services specifically provided to men and women. (b) This article shall apply wherever the state or an instrumentality of the state classifies people on the basis of sex or otherwise defines people as being female or male, women or men, girls or boys.

Personal privacy is a natural instinct rooted in biological realities, including the facts that males alone have the biological capability to impregnate women and that males are, on average, physically larger and stronger than women. The state should protect spaces where women have been traditionally afforded privacy and safety from acts of abuse, harassment, sexual assault, and violence committed by men.

No state or local governmental agency may prohibit distinctions between the sexes with respect to domestic violence shelters, or other accommodation where biology, safety, or privacy are implicated.

To ensure the privacy and safety of women in domestic violence shelters, each such shelter shall: (1) Designate sleeping quarters and multiple occupancy restrooms or changing rooms: (A) For the exclusive use of females or (B) For the exclusive use of males

To ensure the privacy and safety of students, each public school system in this state and each state institution of higher education shall: (1) Designate multiple occupancy restrooms or changing rooms: (A) For the exclusive use of females; (B) For the exclusive use of males;

Promoting Accuracy in Sex-Based Data Collection. [...] Any public school, public school district, state institution of higher education, state agency, or subdivision of the state that directly collects vital statistics related to sex or the categories of male and female.

(1) A "woman" is an adult human of the female sex, and a "man" is an adult human of the male sex. (2) A "girl" is a human female who is a legal minor, and a "boy" is a human male who is a legal minor: Provided, That the use of the term "girl" or "boy" in reference to the participation of a high-school-aged individual in a school or extracurricular program in accordance with the laws of the state shall not be understood to exclude the participation of a student who is legally an adult. (3) A "mother" is a female parent of a child or children. (4) A "father" is a male parent of a child or children. (5) A "female", when this term is used in reference to a natural person, is an individual who naturally has, had, will have through the course of normal development, or would have but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, or accident, the reproductive system that at some point produces, transports, and utilizes ova for fertilization. (6) A "male", when this term is used in reference to a natural person, is an individual who naturally has, had, will have through the course of normal development, or would have but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, or accident, the reproductive system that at some point produces transports, and utilizes sperm for fertilization. (7) "Sex", when this term is used to classify or describe a natural person, means the state of being either male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth. There are only two sexes, and every individual is either male or female: