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The bill requiring trans students in Ohio to use bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificates now heads to Gov. Mike DeWine after this vote, in the first legislative session following the election.

A Republican-backed bill that says K-12 and higher education institutions in Ohio must require students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificates got some slight changes Wednesday but is still in committee.

Republican backers of the bill that would require Ohio's K-12 schools and public colleges to require students to use bathrooms that correspondent to the gender on their birth certificates testified girls are afraid to use those facilities, but opponents have questions about that.

One conservative state lawmaker says he’s considering working up legislation that would ban gender neutral bathrooms. Rep. John Becker (R-Cincinnati) says…