Effort to Overturn California’s ‘Bathroom Bill’ Takes Step Forward

Charisma News
3:00PM EDT 5/23/2016 BOB ESCHLIMAN

In August of 2013, long before “bathroom access” for transgendered people became a national issue, California lawmakers passed a statute that allows access to opposite-sex public school facilities.

In the 90 days that followed passage of the law, Privacy For All Students (PFAS) collected more than 620,000 signatures of registered California voters to qualify a referendum to overturn the new law. But elections officials disqualified more than 20 percent of the signatures, leaving the referendum effort more than 17,000 signatures short of the requirement to qualify for the ballot.

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