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BBC News US & Canada 13 August 2013 Last updated at 04:01 GMT California law protects rights of transgender students California has become the first US state to enshrine rights for transgender schoolchildren. A new law requires public schools to allow pupils from kindergarten to the 12th grade to access male or female toilets according to their preference. The legislation also allows transgender schoolchildren to choose whether to play boys' or girls' sports. State Assembly Speaker John Perez said it put "California at the forefront of leadership on transgender rights". Massachusetts and Connecticut have state-wide policies granting the same protections, but California is the first to put them into law. Privacy concerns Supporters of bill AB1266, which gives transgender schoolchildren the right to "participate in sex-segregated programs, activities and facilities", argued that it would help reduce bullying and discrimination. School districts in Los Angeles and San Francisco already had similar polices and had reported no problems, they noted. Opponents of the legislation said allowing pupils of one gender to use facilities intended for the other could invade the others students' privacy or violate their rights. "Will transgender students make some other children uncomfortable? Perhaps," said the bill's author, Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. "I don't want to minimise that, but new experiences are often uncomfortable. That can't be an excuse for prejudice." Families of transgender children have been fighting battles with school districts across the US over access to toilets and changing rooms. In June, a civil rights panel in Colorado ruled that a school had discriminated against a six-year-old transgender girl by barring her from using the girls' toilets. BBC BBC © 2013 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read more. ------------------------------------ Post message: prole...@egroups.com Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: proletar-dig...@yahoogroups.com proletar-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: proletar-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
