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(40,637 posts)Financing approved for new school building in Tipp City, OH.
Currently, design plans for the new building include three bathrooms with small, locking toilet rooms and communal hand washing spaces open to all students, regardless of gender.
On Jan. 21, some residents parroted anti-transgender sentiment regarding the design, which could be illegal to build and operate under Ohios new anti-transgender bathroom ban.
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Last year, lawmakers passed Senate Bill (SB) 104, requiring trans and otherwise gender expansive people to use the public restroom that corresponds with the gender marker on their original birth certificate.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs anti-transgender bathroom bill into law
The bill which Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law on Nov. 27 mandates that schools designate bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms and shower rooms for use exclusively by either male or female students.
The bill also explicitly prevents schools from building or maintaining a bathroom designated as nongendered, multigendered, or open to all genders if the bathroom can be accessed by more than one student at the same time.