State lawmakers have given final approval to a regulation guiding how Nevada school districts should address the needs of their transgender students.

“Despite all the existential arguments that I have heard over the last couple of months, it boils down to protecting kids for me,” Assemblywoman Maggie Carlton (D), who voted in favor of the regulation, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The Legislative Commission voted 7-5 in favor of the Department of Education’s regulation. Assemblymen Keith Pickard (R), Jim Wheeler (R), Chris Edwards (R), and Sens. Scott Hammond (R) and Ben Kieckhefer (R) opposed it.

Writes the Review-Journal:

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The regulation requires school districts to adopt a policy that includes training on the needs of people with diverse gender identities. Districts must also develop a plan to address the rights and needs of such students, addressing issues such as access to school clubs and dress code.

It does specify that transgender students may only be referred to using the pronoun with which they identify. But students and staff who don’t comply with that directive may only be disciplined if the failure to do so constitutes bullying or violates school district policy.

But the regulation does not specify which restrooms trans students must use, nor does it require districts to address the matter.

Parents continue to be divided over this new regulation.

The regulation was required after a law passed in 2017. This final approval closely aligns with the Clark County School Board’s transgender policy, which passed on a split vote back in August.