Sex Discrimination Case: The Gavin Grimm Case

One current court case is dealing with a federal judge releasing an injunction to momentarily restrict transgender students from using school bathrooms as well as locker rooms of their choice (Eldeib). In blocking students from using something as simple as a restroom or locker room, a student’s identity can be misconstrued. Especially with a student who may already feel differently about their identity. A mother in Denton, Texas, hopes to change the legal problems revolving around the controversy of bathroom laws in Texas schools. Amber Briggle states her 8-year-old transgender son has felt he needs to wait to use the restroom until he would arrive home. As well as this, Briggle confirms her son, MG’s grades dropped drastically. His grades continued to worsen until he was given a restroom alteration, allowing him to feel comfortable. (Wright). Along with MG, many students do not feel safe in their schools because of having to hide their transgender identity. Students may not feel safe just because Texas is such a conservative state. Ken Paxton and other state leaders even exchanged in transphobic rhetoric at the 2016 Texas GOP convention. Because of the strong conservative viewpoints in Texas, young people as well as students in the area may not feel accepted as who they are, leading them to disguise their true self. School is already a tough time in a child or teens life, and being discriminated against because of how one identifies does not make a student’s lifestyle any easier. Because transgender students in Texas schools are entitled to free expression of gender identity, they are also permitted to dress how they please. As well as wearing the clothes a transgender students feels most comfortable with, it is permissible to address these students by their preferred name. Because transgender

Every person in the United states is entitle to their rights based on the amendments. Transgender students are protected by Title IX and cannot be neglected in schools by anyone or they will stop receiving federal money. “The Justice and Education Departments issued guidance that, under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, schools receiving federal money may not discriminate based on a student’s transgender status and that the departments would treat a student’s gender identity as the student’s sex for purposes of enforcing Title IX.” (According to New York Times). This should be applied to every single school not only schools that get federal money because every transgender student should be protected by a law just as every other cisgender student. Every single citizen in the United states is protected by their civil rights which is “the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and

The supreme court case that I decided on was the case of Gavin Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board (ED. VA.) (Unknown, 2017). This case is about an 18-year-old male that attends a Virginia high school in Gloucester County Virginia. Gavin has male features and facial hair like a male and a deep voice like a male; however, he is in the process of being a transgender. The problem is Gavin uses the men’s restroom and is fighting for a transgender restroom throughout the school. The school board’s policy denies transgender students access to the restrooms used by rest of the student body because it violates the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Unknown, 2017). The school states that students must use the restrooms according to their

Texas recently brought a case forward blocking President Obama’s transgender bathroom policy. “The Texas case was brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, who led a group of plaintiffs that included 12 other states and two school districts. The plaintiffs argued that the Obama administration guidance came with the implicit threat that federal education funds could be withheld if school districts refused to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their chosen gender identity. The guidance also had implications for federal student privacy laws, threatening education officials with sanctions if they fail to address students by their preferred gender pronouns. In a statement, Paxton praised the ruling as correcting "illegal federal overreach" by the Obama administration” (Korte, 2016). The Texas judge ruled that Obama’s bathroom policy could be

Gavin Grimm is a transgender who was born as a female, and want his right to go to the boys’ bathroom. In Richmond, a federal appeals court has said that he can sue the school board, because they are practically taking away his right to be what he wants to be (Balingit). “The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Virginia filed a lawsuit against the Gloucester County School Board for adopting a discriminatory bathroom policy that segregates transgender students from their peers” (@ACLU).

In her article North Carolina students sue U.S. over stance on bathroom access, author Colleen Jenkins talks about the issue going in North Carolina regarding the law in which banned transgender’s using the the restroom of the gender with which they identify with. In her article, Jenkins discusses the fact that students in North Carolina have asked the U.S. court to block two federal agencies from withholding education funding while the dispute over the bathroom access for transgenders goes on. In addition, the group called “North Carolinians for privacy” discussed the fact that U.S Department of Justice and U.S Department of Education had dishonorably held arrangements of government laws banning segregation in the education settings on the

More and more kids and teens are realizing that, they are not who they want to be. Meaning that, they want to, or have already changed their gender identity. This doesn’t seem like the problem, but these kids, teens, and even adults don't have the rights we have on a regular daily bases. According to Discovery Education, it says that, these kids and teens aren’t allowed to use the bathroom of the gender they choose to be. This is a big problem throughout the United States, especially in elementary, middle, and high schools. The government also took away the law stating that transgender people, are to use

(Thesis Statement) Jamie Nabozny, a kid bullied for his sexual orientation, bravely fought against and district that would not

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.

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.

Harper Jean Tobin’s article starts with a brief summary on district Judge Reed O’Connor’s most recent injunction on bathrooms in high school being available to all gender identities. She quickly follows by addressing her argument; Connor’s injunction is unlawful. Harper Jean Tobin begins the article with providing facts with creditable resources, she also manages to provide commentary by teenagers who are being directly affected by this injunction. Tobin manages to persuade readers through the use of the rhetorical devices ethos, pathos, and logos.

They deserve to feel safe in school, be protected from physical harm, and use the bathroom of their choice. The progress to giving them the liberties they yearn for, however, is slowed by the naive human beings that compose our society. Our country is filled with people that view themselves as kind, forgiving and welcoming, but they do not fight for what is right. Because our population is trapped in a utopian version of humanity, we cannot promote righteousness. Nevertheless, transgender students need us see the legitimate nature of civilization. In order for our world to match our currently inaccurate picture of life, we need to step out of our distorted reality. Since transgender students constantly face discrimination and violence, it is urgent that we create laws that specifically outline the freedoms belonging to transgender students, instead of mimicking the vague list of rights already part of federal law. With definitive legislation, we can effectively implement change. By making laws regarding the rights of transgender students, and then rigorously administering those rulings, we can change the way our society treats transgender students, and dramatically increase their quality of

Joshua Franklin, a Hawaiian single openly gay father is suing Hawaii State’s Department of education because they failed to respond after being reported about homophobic bullying his two sons endured at school. Franklin’s sons, 10-year-old Alea Stevens-Alameda and 9-year-old Poha Stevens-Alameda have been discriminated against and called homophobic names such as “fag” and “queer” and even assaulted by students because of their father’s sexual orientation. In April, Franklin’s younger son was choked and slammed to the ground during an after school program. According to the article, Hawaii legislators tried to pass a bill that would create a state definition of what bullying is and even listed some reasons for bullying, such as race, gender,

After considering the facts and the precedent cases, we are first upholding Auer Deference on behalf of the respondent, and we rule that the unpublished D.O.E. letter must in fact be granted deference. Second, after considering all of the facts we have come to the conclusion that due to changing times and broadening terms, the term “sex” can no longer solely mean biological sex and must also include factors such as gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and we believe that it schools are to treat transgender students consistent with their gender identity or it would be a violation under the Title IX acts.

Since we were little, girls and boys were always told to go to different gender bathrooms. The girl's door had a bright pink stick figure with a skirt, and the boys would have a blue stick figure on their doors. These pictures will point us to which bathroom to go to depending on our sex. As a former child, I always wondered why I couldn’t enter the boys' room. I would ask my mom this question, but she would just respond with “you aren’t a boy.” I always thought, “why does it matter, shouldn’t it be fine for both genders to use the same bathroom?” This tradition has been followed for years-until now. It’s the twenty-first century, and much has changed. Legislatures have introduced the bathroom bill which will make single stalled bathrooms gender neutral. Although some argue single stalled gender-neutral bathrooms will jeopardize the normality, I would pass this bill because it will welcome the LGBTQ+ community, benefit caregivers and help lower the debt.