Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill on Tuesday prohibiting trans-identifying students from using bathrooms and locker rooms that don’t match their biological sex.
When the law takes effect in 90 days, public and private K-12 schools, along with colleges and universities, must ensure that bathrooms, locker rooms, and overnight accommodations are divided by biological sex, The Hill reported. The bill was approved by Ohio’s Republican-controlled state Senate earlier this month. Democrats were united in their opposition to the legislation.
The new Ohio law also bans schools from building multi-occupancy “all-gender” facilities. According to the Ohio Capital Journal, the law does not prohibit schools from having non-gendered single-occupancy bathrooms.
Ohio joins more than a dozen other states that have taken action to ensure that K-12 students use bathrooms and locker…
