Enough signatures have been acquired to qualify for a state referendum on California’s controversial law allowing students to choose which bathroom or locker room to use based on their “gender identity.”

CitizenLink.com is reporting that non-profit and faith-based groups have submitted a sufficient number of signatures to prevent the law from taking effect in January.

“Privacy for All Students (PFAS) submitted more than 620,000 signatures to election officials. It only needs 504,760.  About 400,000 of these were volunteer signatures, supplemented by just over 220,000 paid signatures,” CitizenLink reports.

“As far as we are aware, this is the largest number of volunteer signatures ever submitted in a California referendum campaign,” said Karen England of Capitol Resource Institute, a member of the PFAS executive committee. “It shows the degree of opposition that exists to opening the most vulnerable areas of public schools to the opposite sex.”

Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB1266 into law in August with a projected January 2014 effective date, but this will go on hold just as soon as the state’s election officials certify the signatures. The law will remain on hold until the issue can be brought before the people for a vote.

The idea of allowing children to determine their gender once they enter a school appears to be taking root in the U.S. and isn’t working very well. A case in point involves a high school in Colorado Springs which came under fire a few months ago when girls complained of being harassed by a boy who used their rest room after claiming to be a girl. Instead of protecting the girls, school administrators threatened them with hate crime charges and told them to use another bathroom which is not readily accessible during the day. This caused an outcry from parents who quickly summoned lawyers into the dispute which is still being decided by the school board.

“We respect that some students are struggling with their own sexual identity, but we ask for respect for the other students who will be humiliated when a boy walks into the girl’s locker room,” England stated in September. “This is a privacy issue, a safety issue and a common-sense issue.”

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