Update on Co-ed bathroom AB1266

In the full count to qualify the referendum on the co-ed bathroom bill, the California Secretary of State is reporting that we came up 17,276 short of the 504,760 signatures needed. 

The Secretary of State declared that 487,484 signatures were valid and that 131, 857 were invalid.

Proponents of AB 1266 are celebrating while many opponents of the bill are evaluating what they could have done to gain the relatively small number of signatures needed to qualify the referendum on this initial count of the signatures. But at Privacy For All Students we are preparing for the next stage of the battle.  After months of waiting, we now get to see why so many signatures were thrown out.  Certainly some signers were not registered to vote or had moved without changing their address.  But it is also certain that many of those signatures were rejected based on reasons that will not survive a legal challenge. 

This was not totally unexpected.  We knew that we would have to fight to have every valid signature counted.  And we have already taken the Secretary of State to court once in this process.  In that case, the judge ordered that thousands of signatures be counted.

While we prepare for the legal battle ahead to have invalid signatures deemed valid, we should not lose sight of what we are fighting for.

It is now just a little more than six months since Privacy For All Students was formed to fight for the privacy and safety of boys and girls that would be forced to share bathrooms if AB 1266 was not challenged.

In that short time, the issue has moved beyond California.  Across the country, activists are intent on sexually integrating our children's bathrooms and locker rooms.  We are told that this is necessary to relieve the discomfort of a few that are uncomfortable in traditional sex separate facilities.  But the much greater number that would have their privacy and safety compromised by this radical change are regarded as irrational or irrelevant.  And those that are fighting to keep bathrooms separate are labeled as hateful.

We are told that gender identity is more important than gender reality.

We are told that feelings trump anatomy.

While so many of us want to be compassionate to those that feel that biology has betrayed them, we can't help but notice that we are living the modern equivalent of the Emperor's New Clothes.

Today, those who would tear down the 'boys' and 'girls' signs from bathrooms will celebrate.  But we know that the battle is far from over.  Privacy For All Students will keep fighting to see this referendum qualified for the November ballot.

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