A new Ohio law banning transgender students from using bathrooms that match their gender identity goes into effect in February, but its enforcement appears murky. Why it matters: The law is part of a wave of anti-trans legislation at the state and federal levels that includes measures aimed at bathrooms,

Gov. Mike DeWine signed the law out of public view over the objections of Democrats, teachers’ unions and civil rights groups.

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

While transgender Ohioans and allies lament Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signing a transgender bathroom ban bill despite 10,000 Ohioans reportedly urging him not to do so, Republicans are celebrating.

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 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.

Transgender students from kindergarten through college at Ohio public and private schools will be banned from using multiperson bathrooms that fit their gender identities under a measure that Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday that he has signed.

Fox News Digital spoke to Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted about Gov. Mike DeWine’s signing of a bill requiring use of bathrooms to correlate with biological gender in schools

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.