Transgender actress Candis Cayne
appeared Tuesday on CNN to discuss a Mississippi law that targets the
LGBT community.
Republican Governor Phil Bryant signed
the bill into law on Tuesday.
(Related: Mississippi
Gov. Phil Bryant signs “religious freedom” bill into law.)
House Bill 1523 allows companies to
deny services or goods for the “celebration or recognition of any
marriage, based upon or in a manner consistent with a sincerely held
religious belief or moral conviction.” It also protects
individuals who believe that a person's sex is “objectively
determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth.”
Cayne, who currently appears on Caitlyn
Jenner's reality series I Am Cait, called the law a “total
invasion of privacy.”
“First of all, it's a total invasion
of everyone's privacy,” Cayne
said. “And it doesn't just affect trans people. It affects
the whole community. And it affects everyone. I mean right now it's
scary to think that your wife, or your husband, or your daughter or
child could actually be checked every time they want to use a public
restroom. It's a scary thought.”
Critics of the law, which takes effect
July 1, have promised to challenge it in court.