California has become the fifth state in the US to allow students claiming to be a different gender from their biological sex to use bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, and changing rooms designated for children of the opposite biological sex.

It means that a student who is, for example, male in every physical way, will be able to use girls’ changing rooms if the student is deemed to be a girl.

Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill, AB 1266, into law on Monday. The new law will affect more than 6.2 million primary and secondary students in the state.  

The passage of AB 1226 was preceded by a settlement won by a young girl, who was granted permission to use the boys’ facilities, play on all-boys’ teams and stay overnight in hotel rooms with boys during field trips.  

The girl says she believes she is a boy trapped in a boy’s body but is physically   

The girl’s parents filed a discrimination lawsuit after the school district forbade her from sleeping in a hotel room with boys without a chaperone on two occasions.  

The Obama administration intervened and pressured the school district into the settlement and change of policy, saying that failure to do so constitutes sexual discrimination against “students who do not conform to sex stereotypes”.  

Peter Sprigg, Senior Fellow for Policy Studies at the Family Research Council, said that parents “should be outraged at the prospect of biological males sharing restrooms and locker rooms with their daughters, and competing with daughters in sports events.”  

Speaking to Lifesitenews, Sprigg said he found it “bizarre” that some people have decided that “when a person’s subjective feelings or emotions” are in conflict with the biological reality of their sex, “we should treat the subjective feelings as being what defines someone’s identity”.  

“What is especially shocking with AB 1266, however, is that California already has a law barring ‘discrimination’ based on ‘gender identity,’” he added.  

“[T]he only purpose of this added law is to assure that the law does, in fact, apply to the most extreme possible applications–the use of facilities segregated by sex, such as restrooms, locker rooms, and showers; and programs segregated by sex because of the biological differences between the sexes, such as sports.”

California follows Colorado, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Washington in passing such a law.