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.

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.

The new law will require K-12 and college students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their sex assigned at birth.

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

Under the Protect All Students Act, K-12 and college students in the state can only use multiperson facilities aligned with their sex assigned at birth.

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

Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill banning transgender K-12 students from using bathrooms consistently with their transgender identity. They can only use the bathrooms matching birth-assigned gender.