bathroom bill South Dakota House Bill 1008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_House_Bill_1008 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24910646 A bill passed by the South Dakota Legislature in 2016 and vetoed by Governor of South Dakota Dennis Daugaard. The purpose of the bill was to restrict bathroom and locker room use by transgender students to facilities that matched their sex assigned at birth, not their gender identity. It was the first such bathroom bill to be passed in a state legislature in the U.S. and sparked a chain of similar bills across the nation. HB 1008 was opposed by several LGBTQIA+ rights organizations, such as the HRC, GLSEN, and ACLU. House Bill 1008