TOPEKA, Kan. – Legislation introduced in Kansas would require schools to maintain restrooms and locker rooms for one gender only, and would require students to use facilities that correspond to their biological gender.

The Student Physical Privacy Act requires schools with multiperson restroom, locker, and shower facilities to limit access to a single gender that’s “determined by a person’s chromosomes and is identified at birth by a person’s anatomy,” the Kansas City Star reports.

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“I think any child or young adult has a right to have their privacy protected when they’re in various stages of undress,” Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, a supporter of the bill, told the news site.

The legislation – Senate Bill 513 and House Bill 2737 – also states that “allowing students to use restrooms, locker rooms and showers that are reserved for students of a different sex ill create potential embarrassment, shame, and psychological injury to students,” according to Think Progress.

The bill aims to “maintain order and dignity in restrooms, locker rooms, showers and other facilities where students may be in various states of undress in the presence of other students.”

Pilcher-Cook told WIBW parents of sexually normal students have grown concerned about transgender student access to private school facilities, but are afraid to speak out.

“Parents have reached out afraid for their children’s safety and they  do not want attention for fear of being called a bigot,” she said in a statement. “This legislation ensures accommodations, while still protecting everyone’s privacy rights.”

Aside from banning students of the opposite sex in single gender school facilities, the bills would also impose financial penalties on schools that don’t comply.

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The legislation would entitle any student who finds a student of the opposite sex in a school restroom, changing room, or other similar single sex facility to $2,500, paid by the school, for each offense, as well as “monetary damages for all psychological, emotional and physical harm suffered as a result of a violation…,” according to Think Progress.

The bills were introduced by Republican-controlled committees, rather than individual lawmakers.

“April 1 is the deadline for the bills to receive any consideration before the session is over,” the news site reports.

Gender rights activists, of course, are strongly against the bills, with many claiming the legislation will “endanger” or discriminate against transgender and other sexually abnormal students, though it explicitly states that students who “for any reason desire greater privacy” can request alternative facilities and schools must comply.

“This is isolating kids,” Equality Kansas executive director Tom Witt told the Star, “and it’s not going to end well.

“It’s outing them. It’s putting a target on their backs,” he said.

“They become more vulnerable to harassment, bullying, and violence because they have to go to different restrooms and have to constantly out themselves, bills like this don’t protect people, they kill people,” Kansas State University women’s studies professor Harlan Weaver told WIBW.

Others, like Republican Rep. Stephanie Clayton, oppose the legislation because they believe the legislature has more pressing issues to attend to.

She believes lawmakers should first work “to get our financial house in order and to keep our schools open.

“No matter how you feel on the issue,” Clayton told the Star, “this demonstrates a distinct lack of focus.”