Pros And Cons Of The CHUMS GSA

In the article “When the Gender Boxes Don’t Fit” by Ericka Sokolower-Shain I found myself a little disagreed. I am all about equality for all, and everyone should feel comfortable in their own skin. I agree with the writer that “gender doesn’t have to be so black and white” (Sokolower-Shain, 2009, pg. 34). The whole conflict this person came across within the whole bathroom discussion I felt fully on their side, and it was something I would support, gender neutral bathrooms. But then I thought about myself, I won’t feel comfortable about entering a bathroom with men in there. I don’t know if that messes with my beliefs on equality but the thought of it did make me uncomfortable. I think if I was asked to sign

The bathroom is a place many people do not second think of being a harbor for hate or a place of much debate. An issue that has been floating around in my school district and those around mine, is whether to allow transgender students to use the restroom that they identify with or making the student use their birth gender. This has effected students around me, because a few of my peers and a number of the staff at my school are transgender and do not know what to do during the

A bathroom at home is the most private and comfortable. He then describes how creating a unisex bathroom can benefit people who may suffer with shy bladder syndrome. Broyde and Steinmetz arguments both helped each other by providing clear points and expanding each other’s thoughts. Although Steinmetz didn’t provide her points with detail, Broyde was able to fill in the blanks. Unlike Steinmetz he went in depth every time he would make a statement.

It is a known fact that both men and women use the restroom. What many are not aware of, is that using the toilet in public areas reinforces the differences between male and female. For instance, the very first thing any individual sees when entering a public restroom is the little dolls of a man or a woman as an indication of a female restrooms and or the male restrooms. This simple sign reaffirms the sexual differences of gender and also unconsciously the individual’s identity for that matter. The concept of gender neutral bathrooms is to break the imaginary wall of gender separation thus allowing either sex to use one single restroom. If we think about it, in our home we share one restroom, and are pretty much accepting of the fact that we all use the toilet. The book states that gender salience is the relation of gender across activities and spaces. The book further discusses that when teachers would place children alphabetically versus by gender the importance of gender reduced. Gender is a persistent element in any school. The concept is simple when it boils down to education the main purpose is to place the students together by groups of the ones that are getting the material and are able to proceed to the next or placing them in a group of students that need more time grasping the given material and curriculum. Although gender salience is like a roller coaster in different parts of the elementary school experience the flow of gender is a persistent element in education. Gendered bathrooms, as previously discussed reinforces the differences between male and female. Back in the Victorian era, they created restrooms for women with a special room that had a resting area before entering the section in which the restrooms were located. This was primary because back then it was not lady like to dispose bodily fluids. They believe that women should keep such matters private, and it was pretty much unheard of for women to even use the restrooms the way it is indented. Till this day many women restrooms still have a resting area before entering the restroom section. Bathrooms are designed with an assumption that everyone is heterosexual. Thus not allowing the possibility of that many individuals don’t

Restrooms: While a school may make individual-user restrooms an option, they are not permitted to require transgender students to use these facilities, or restrooms inconsistent with their gender identity when other students are not required to do so.

The School Board will be in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq., if they do not allow a male that is diagnosed with gender dysphoria and identifies as a female, access to the female restroom. Though the Supreme Court has not ruled on this topic, a Fourth Circuit ruling, the Department of Education and Department of Justice Dear Colleague Letter, and case law regarding transgender students can help enlighten the school board on this topic. An introductory understanding of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 will assist in this matter. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 and its regulations prohibit sex discrimination in schools, educational programs and activities that are recipients of Federal funds. Within Title IX it specifically prohibits the discrimination of student’s based on gender identity, including the discrimination of transgender students. Title IX provides: “[n]o person… shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance” 20 U.S.C. § 1681(a).

When I President of the Residence Hall Association at North Carolina Central University, there was a student that was transitioning from a male to a female that identified as, she. She felt that she could use the restrooms on the female floor. This was an issue because she was still identified as, he, on her driver’s license. She approached me and said “Can you help me I feel, hated, mistreated, alone, and scared”, the only thing I could tell her was, “ I can see if we have space available for a single room with a restroom included”. That hurt me because I was in this leadership position, representing residence life, and we didn’t even have a gender-neutral restroom for a soon to be transgender to take a shower in peacefully. Unfortunately, that student moved off campus, and had to pay a housing termination fee, and that was one less student in a room. I want to be that young student affairs professional that anybody can talk to; I also want to make sure we have facilities on campus that cater to the LGBTQ community. If there isn’t a lavender housing LLC on campus, lets start one. We can start by putting adapting a lavender housing floor LLC, then moving towards a lavender building that provides knowledge about the LGBTQA culture, and people who have contributed to the

A long side sports there is also another controversy with transgender rights. There are boy’s bathrooms and girl’s bathrooms, but girls are wanting to use boys and the other way around. Many stores such as Target, Starbucks, and many more have just gotten rid of assigned bathrooms all together. In most cases it is still not enough, many transgender rights activist want it want

There are not many pros when it comes to letting transgender students pick the restroom they want to use or to allow them to pick the sports team they want to play on. A few of the positive factors that can come with this are, that a transgender person would feel more comfortable being able to be around the

The U.S. federal government is backing the issue of gender neutral bathrooms. As Lisa Rein, publisher of an article in The Washington Post, writes, “The federal government is strongly urging employers to give transgender employees access to bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, marking a new policy front in the fast-moving campaign for transgender equality” (Rein). Rein argues that bathrooms need to be made neutral, as it discriminates members of the LBGT community. Essentially, she argues throughout her article that emotional issues are the biggest reason to allow this. She states, “Among the many forms of discrimination advocates for transgender men and women say they face on the job,

Many arguments against gender neutral restrooms are backed in ignorance and fear of transgender issues and what trans* means. These people believe that transwomen are men in dresses and transmen are tomboys, that gender is binary and rigid. A way to help people accept gender neutral bathrooms is to educate people on trans* issues and what trans* is. To teach people that transwomen are women - not men in dresses, that transmen are men, that gender is not binary, that gender is fluid, that gender identity and gender expression are two different things, that being trans* is not a mental illness.

When the applied the focus no longer on learning, it flips on to when and where a person should use the bathroom. If a student does not have the ability to use the bathroom they are comfortable with then what should they do? Schools do not normally have gender neutral bathrooms unless it is in the faculty lounge or an area only accessible to non-students. Those bathrooms can be all the way across campus depending on where that

The changing norms of the generation has brought upon commotion between various states because of the presidents judgement. The transgender bathroom policy allows transgender students to use the bathroom they identify as and not by the sex on their birth certificate (Fox News, 2016). The transgender bathroom policy has both successes and failure to ensure safety for transgender students resulting to its change being for not only trans-gender. Gender neutral bathrooms allows safety for those who are not only transgender, but also a part of the LGBTQ community, etc. but it causes a conflict with gender segregation. Adding additional bathrooms to suite other gender preferences costs more money and not everyone is going to accept what they walk into the bathroom and see. The gender neutral bathroom policy should be taken off of hold and be put into action because everything is constantly changing and those who do not identify as the sex they were assigned at birth are at risk for harm.

In past generations, it has been clear to society that males and females use segregated bathrooms. It is also known that the rate of transgender people has been growing over the past years. Transgender people constantly face troubles when using a bathroom in public. Nevertheless, as society has become more aware of the transgender population and the issues that they face, many schools have had to decide how they will respond about the issue of school bathrooms when students identify themselves as transgender. A school should be able to provide separate facilities based on sex, but must allow transgender students access to the facility which matches their gender identity.

Unisex bathrooms provide trans individuals with a safe space where they won’t be judged. For most trans people, the simple act of choosing which public bathroom to enter can be cause for anxiety. This is attributed to the standard gender-segregated setup most restrooms have. The problem lies in presentation, or how well a person “passes” as the gender they wish to be perceived as. Essentially, what happens is “a trans person whose appearance or body doesn’t conform to what people think of as male or female may run into trouble tying to use either restroom” (Friedrichs). The trouble that one might run into in these situations can become extreme, and very dangerous. One transgender person stated that in public restrooms they’ve experienced “[being] slapped, pushed, and dragged out by security guards” (Friedrichs).With the inclusion of unisex bathrooms, this and similar problems are eliminated. This is because if a trans woman were to use the women’s restroom, the other women in their could judge or attack her because she might not look like woman, so she shouldn‘t belong in the women‘s room. However if the same woman were to use the unisex bathroom instead, no longer would the other patrons need to worry if she belonged there or not, because both men and women are welcome. In a room where both men and women are allowed, people are far less likely to be judged or harassed based of their perceived gender. Many individuals in the transgender community have started to support the