The bill signed by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) essentially requires students in K-12 schools to use single-sex facilities, such as restrooms and locker rooms, according to their biological sex. is intended to protect women and girls, said Ohio Lt. Gov. Mike DeWine. Governor Jon Husted (Republican) said in an interview. Breitbart News Saturday.
Husted noted that Ohio is now “one of the states that says that in our elementary, middle schools, and colleges, you must go to the restrooms that reflect your gender at birth: male and female.” ”
“I mean, like you said, this is common sense. It's kind of hard to believe. If you literally told me 10 years ago that the law says, 'Boys go to the men's bathroom, girls go to the women's bathroom.' If I told you that we needed to enact it, you would have been like, “So what's going on?” Why do you need to do that? '' he said, explaining that it became a reality because there was a situation where a man entered the women's locker room.
“We have this situation too. In some school building toilets, teenagers and even younger people in the school, boys and girls go to the same toilet. And we said, Look, we have to get rid of this nonsense. “It's hard to believe that responsible adults can't do that, but we now have to legally have separate toilets for boys and girls. It's common sense,” Husted said. He stressed that this is about protecting women and girls.
“It's about their privacy and safety. You certainly don't want to have a restroom in a public place where a 30-year-old man can share a restroom with a 12-year-old girl. “It defies the logic of a situation happening. It defies logic for a boy to go into a women's locker room. And now we have a law that prohibits that.”
She clarified that this is not about “transgender rights,” but about “protecting privacy and creating safe spaces for women and girls.”
He also said there are many ways to address the needs of transgender people when it comes to same-sex spaces, citing the use of unisex household toilets as an example.
“You can use them, but the girls will need a safe place to go to the bathroom and use the locker room,” he said.
Husted told the audience that the issue first came to mind when her daughter was in fourth grade.
“I remember the first time my daughter was in fourth grade, where counselors came to school and encouraged her to explore her 'gender identity,' encouraged boys to wear girls' clothes, and taught her how to be different.” I said no. Between boys and girls,” he recalled.
“And I started. That's when my antennae went up and I thought, 'What the hell is going on?'” And then the school started building gender-neutral restrooms. , many in the community were against it,” he said, expressing shock that this was not happening far away in California or New York, but in his own home.
“It was happening in the Midwest, right here in the Midwest, in Ohio. And we need to be aware of the fact that something like this shouldn't be happening, girls, especially young girls, [when] You’re a teenager,” he said, pointing out how difficult this period of life is anyway.
When adults “lose common sense,” he says, “it's time to address these issues from a legal perspective, from a legislative perspective.”
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