California Democrats want gender-neutral bathrooms mandatory in all K-12 schools

By Jeremiah Poff

Excerpted from the Washington Examiner

A California state lawmaker has introduced legislation that would make the Golden State the first in the nation to require schools to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom on campus.

State Sen. Josh Newman (D) introduced SB 760 last week, which would require all K-12 public and charter schools to have at least one genderless bathroom for student use amid ever-increasing controversy over the place of public schools when a student claims to identify with a gender different from their biological sex.

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Newman's bill was also co-sponsored by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D), who said, "Every child and adolescent should have access to a bathroom that comports with their gender identity, and for some young people, that means bathrooms that don’t force them into a binary choice."

Wiener has introduced numerous bills related to gay and transgender issues in his time in the state legislature. In 2022, Wiener sponsored legislation that makes California a "refuge" for families with children identifying as transgender after a handful of Republican-controlled states took steps to empower Child Protective Services to remove children from homes that approved of their child's use of cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and other procedures.

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