Angry parents have banded together to force a statewide vote on a new California law that will enable students to access whatever school bath or locker room that conforms to their "gender identity", regardless of the impact on other students.

Writing for The Washington Times, pro-family advocate and author Rebecca Hagelin says it's time for all of us to "push back on such heavy-handed, demented social engineering" and do whatever we can to support the newly formed Privacy for All Students coalition to bring this vastly unpopular law to a vote before it can be implemented on January 1, 2014.

The new law will allow transgender students from kindergarten through 12th grade to use any bathroom or locker room in the school that conforms to whatever gender they feel they are.

The law states, “A pupil shall be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.”

"That’s a fancy way of saying that boys who wish they were girls need only pronounce the magic words 'I AM a girl' and they are entitled by law to be treated as girls. The same switcheroo holds true for girls who wish to be boys," Hagelin explains.

Imagine how this law will play out in the average California school for the majority of students who aren't confused about their gender. For instance, a boy will now have the right to undress in front of a girl in the girl's locker room, or occupy the next stall in the bathroom, simply because he feels more like a girl than a boy. The same holds true for boys who will now have to undress around a girl "sporting strap-on genitals and breast-binding chest wraps" and do so without any reaction that could be construed as hostility or harassment.

One California Assemblyman, Tim Donnelly, is already planning to remove his children from public school if the law is allowed to stand.

“It is completely unreasonable to expect teenagers, who are uncomfortable with themselves at this age, to accept this level of privacy invasion,” he said.

Hagelin agrees. "The California law is a perfect example of what happens when liberal elites force their ideological agendas on ordinary people. Our children’s world goes bonkers. The public does not want this law. The confused elites pushed the bill through the Legislature because they want our children — all of us, in fact — to affirm as true the notion that a boy or girl can switch genders simply by saying so — that gender identity is completely disconnected from a person’s bodily reality."

Of course, that's not at all true. "No matter how strongly a boy feels that he is a girl, he can no more 'turn into' a girl than he can turn into a giraffe," Hagelin writes.

"While liberals worry that 'transgender' children will feel excluded or unaccepted if they are required to use facilities that conform to their natural, bodily realities, the same liberals care not a whit for the feelings and privacy of the 99.9 percent of children who know that girls are girls and boys are boys, even from before birth. The elites preferred to enact a law that is a gross violation of children’s privacy (and safety) rather than risk making 'transgender youths' feel abnormal."

As a result, parents have banded together to form the Privacy for All Students coalition and have filed a referendum seeking to give voters the right to reject this absurd law at the ballot box. If they can collect half a million signatures by November 12, the law will be suspended until the voters have a chance to decide its fate.

Concerned citizens who live in California can sign the petition here, and are being asked to send this article to at least five friends, asking them to do the same.

Those of us who live outside of California can also help by sending this column or a link to friends and relatives living in the state.

"Give California families a chance to have their say," Hagelin urges. "It takes just 30 seconds to sign a petition. Our children are worth it."

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