Transgender Bathroom Policy

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

Transgender rights and policies have always been an ongoing debate. In the article, “Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penis Panics,” Schilt and Westbrook (2015) argued that in order to push gender equality forward, we must consider the rights of transgender people by allowing them to have access to bathrooms that support their gender identity rather than their biological sex. In doing so, authors believed that it would make progress in alleviating discrimination against transgender people. However, in this conscious effort to fight for transgender rights and their access to sex-segregated spaces,

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

Here in Canada, this issue has been brought forward in both communities and provincial level of concerns. To take a look closer to home, the city of Toronto had witnessed the complexity of this issue in the past years. A Toronto transgender teen who identifies as a male, was banned from using his high school boys restroom, and was forced to leave school grounds and search for a public bathroom at a gas station. Concerns were mentioned for the safety of Spencer, and also how he felt uncomfortable being forced to use the women’s restroom; however, several parents and students agreed with how the school was taking action to this problem. After a petition was enacted by fellow supportive students, Spencer was allowed to freely use the restrooms at his high school.

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

When approaching public restrooms, most look at the gender on the door that associates with their own gender. However, some stare at those labels wondering which one they belong in. These types of people are often referred to as transgenders. Transgenders are people who identify themselves with the opposite gender of their biological sex. Therefore, for this category of people, entering a restroom is not so easy. They often wonder whether they should go into the bathroom of their biological sex or of their gender identity. The debate has spread throughout America today. Transgender bathrooms have been discussed in politics, education, and even criminal cases. Both sides of the debate offer valid evidence to support their claims. The only compensation

Gloucester School Board effects the faculty and students of schools across America. Gavin Grimm, an open transgender student at Gloucester High School wants to have access to the boy’s restroom at school, the boy’s restroom was used until the Gloucester County School Board received complaints from students and families. It’s noted that Grimm suffers from gender dysphoria, to make his transformation easier, all aspects, physical, mental, and social, must be transitioned also. The School Board eventually banned Grimm from using the boy’s restrooms in school, introducing a new policy; this “rule” and the Supreme Court’s ruling will impact many Americans apart of the LGBTQ community and students all over America. Many schools, events like sports, field trips, etc don’t include bathrooms special for transgender citizens like a unisex restrooms, this will affect all Americans, transgender or

Everyday people experience discrimination over things like race, sex, and beliefs. Discrimination has become a part of the American culture. The most recent issue is Transgenders and their battle in court over the bathroom bill. The bathroom bill is a bill that may or may not is passed by the supreme court, This bill would grant Transgenders the right to use the bathroom of their choice because it can cause a threat to men, women, and children who do use the bathroom that is listed on their birth certificate, however the fact still remains that transgender should have just as much freedom to use the bathroom of choice as other regular human beings.

To put it in the simplest form, there is a need for change. Transgender bathroom regulations blatantly oppress transgender individuals all around the nation in many ways. Since the national uprising over transgender bathroom policies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) individuals have been impacted greatly. Heath complications, increase in suicides, and undeniable discrimination are a few of the negative impacts these policies have had on LGBTQ people. These individuals, although very significantly affected, are not the only targets impacted as a result of these policies. Loss in revenue, possible lawsuits, and travel bands are among the many consequences felt in the states where these draconian laws were passed.

The transgender community has been particularly outspoken about the injustices they have faced as transgender individuals as of late. Due to this, the public’s attention is drawn to what can be done to help these individuals gain the same rights that cisgender people have. A particularly potent topic is that of transgender students in high schools. On account of the attention, schools and teachers are faced with whether they will help or hinder the lives of their transgender students. Unfortunately, it has been made clear that high school teachers and high schools in general are not doing enough to accommodate their transgender students.

When it comes to restrooms and dressing rooms there is no security to ensure public safety of shoppers, which enables sexuals offenders to take interest. American Family Association created a boycott on their webpage for Target and at the bottom of the pledge, several articles are posted each day as a result of the new bathroom policy. One of the links embedded is from the New York Daily Times, ‘Seattle man undresses in women's locker room at local pool to test new transgender bathroom rule’ (Bult). In response to this incident and unidentified women mentions, “We’re not here saying that the transgendered community are predators, we will never say that because we don’t believe that. What we do believe is that this code is so poorly written

Mr/Mrs Chief Justice, and may it please the Court: where do we draw the line? While the current debate is about transgender bathroom usage, it could open a pandora’s box of problems. Should everyone get their own bathroom? Why should one person’s discomfort take precedent to everyone else’s right to comfort? In America, there are 700,000 people whom identify as transgender. This equates to 0.3% of our population. Why should the tyranny of the minority overrule the other 99.7% of our citizen’s right to privacy? CONVICTED FELONS have the right of protection from unnecessary exposure to the opposite sex, shouldn’t young innocent children have the same privilege? While nondiscrimination laws have pure intentions, they can be taken to unreasonable

Mixed gender rights have definitely come to the forefront in recent years for institutions in higher education. Long gone are the days of our parents and grandparents where gender identity and sexual preference were hush-hush. Students have pushed the boundaries of their respective school’s policies on transgender rights and have forced these institutions to institute policies to address these issues of equality on campus. My research will highlight the myriad of ways that higher education has addressed transgender rights on their campuses.

In Transgender Students and Bathrooms the author Mike Kennedy, found evidence of students who have fought due to being treated unequally because they identify themselves as transgender. “The Maine Supreme Court ruled that the Regional School Unit 26 violated the rights of a transgendered girl after the policy was reversed when she reached the middle school age, where they banned her from using the girls’ restroom”(19). Many times, a problem that transgender Americans face within our society is being accepted in one place of establishment, but not in another. While there are quite a few places who have made an effort to help those who are transgender, there are many places who refuse to do so. Our nation is split on how to handle those who are transgender, but it is clear that it is not

In recent years, our nation has seen an increased number of transgender students demanding to be included in activities and facilities they have been excluded from in the past. This has introduced a growing number of events that contradict the norms and labels our society has in place regarding gender and sex roles. The very definition of what it means to be female or male is being challenged by this small portion of the population. In their fight for gender autonomy and gender equality in the education field, they have made great strides to be acknowledged and treated as the gender they identify with; instead of the gender that our society’s norms place on them because of their birth certificate sex.