CLEVELAND, Ohio - On the day before Thanksgiving, Gov. Mike DeWine announced he signed Ohio’s transgender bathroom bill, requiring transgender students at most K-12 schools and colleges in the state to only use bathrooms and locker rooms based on their biological sex at birth.

The new law will require K-12 and college students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their sex assigned at birth.

The state is one of at least a dozen states to set restrictions on bathrooms for transgender students at public schools.

Ohio has become the latest state to require students to use bathrooms and other private, single-sex spaces that correspond to their sex instead of their self-declared gender identity amid pushback to

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law on Wednesday a measure prohibiting students from kindergarten through college from using school single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms other than ones of their biological gender.

Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill banning transgender K-12 students from using bathrooms consistently with their transgender identity. They can only use the bathrooms matching birth-assigned gender.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has signed a law requiring transgender students in public and private schools, from kindergarten through college, to use bathrooms matching their gender assigned at birth. The measure, part of the Republican-backed “Protect All Students Act,” takes effect in 90 days.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a bill into law banning transgender students from using school bathrooms and locker rooms that match up with their gender identity. The law requires people at Ohio K-12 schools and universities use the restroom that aligns with their gender assigned at birth.