Transgender Bedroom In Schools

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.

When it comes to the HB2, it is not going against transgender human beings, it is simply keeping citizens in the community safe. For example, a man could say that he was transgender and called himself a female just to get into the woman’s bathroom and sexually assault a woman or a child. No matter what anyone says, most women tend to be frightened when they are with or around a strange man. For example, in the essay “Just Walk On By: Black Men and Public Space”, it talks about how Staples and a young woman were walking in the same direction on a sidewalk at night. When the young woman realized that Staples was behind her, she instantly became frightened, which is understandable. The young woman began to walk faster trying to get away from Staples not grasping that he wasn’t going to hurt her. Eventually, the woman was out of sight and away from Staples. Even though the essay “Just Walk On By: Black Men and Public Space” does not talk about bathroom safety itself, it does show how people feel harmed by others looks and who is around them because of stereotyping. For women and children, the door is always open for the possibility to become sexually assaulted. With this law passed, it gives women and children a small sense of relief. Supporters of the HB2 stand up for their rights and say that HB2 “defends religious liberty and protects girls in public restrooms

The governments of states which oppose bills similar to the North Carolina Bathroom Bill are more concerned with justice being provided to those who identify as transgender. By restricting freedom to use a public restroom, a government is placing enormous constraints on the freedoms of those individuals. Many have claimed this to be a violation of civil rights in accordance with Title IX , as well as the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. Transgender is a current gender identity and these acts forbid discrimination and abuse on the basis of gender. The HB2 bill is in direct violation of these preordained acts. The ultimate goal is full protection for the LGBTQIA community and this “Bathroom Bill” definitely stands in the way of complete

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

More than 25% of LGBT community are students in high school. Two-fifths of the LGBT student population have been beaten up because they are different. Because of the verbal and physical harassment 66% of these kids feel scared to attend school. The outcome of finishing school and getting the right learning skills is low when they feel unwanted where they are put to learn. Students in high school feel targeted and bullied because of their sexual orientation, therefore leading them to drop out of high school. Failure to get a GED results in failure to get a real job later on in life and succeed. More failure rises when the outcome of no GED produces a low amount of money, therefore contributing low amounts of money to the economy. A persons sexual orientation does not need to determine the type of education they will uphold (Salazar). In February of 2016 a bill was passed denying schools to have transgender bathrooms. The students would have to go the restroom with the gender they were born with. North Carolina also passed legislation that discriminated against LGBT community. House Bill 2 provided protection against discrimination for all communities except LGBT. Schools were banned from giving LGBT kids the permission to use the bathroom they sexually orientated with. Many workers were not happy about this and spoke against the bill. Later, Dennis Daugaard, repealed the law. The

In the long fight of the LGBTQ+ community to gain equal rights in the United States, recent issues have come up against transgender people using public restrooms, specifically youth in high schools. One of the most publicized controversies in recent news is the state of North Carolina passing a law against trans people using the bathroom that does not match the gender on their birth certificate. Since March of 2016, trans people have had to choose between their comfort or their own personal safety. Opposition to the transgender cause have argued that allowing trans people to use the restroom of their preference will cause sexual attacks on cisgendered people using the bathroom, specifically coming from transgender women who were biologically

“The Department of Justice have found that discrimination against transgender people- including denying them bathroom access- is a form of sex discrimination covered under the Civil Rights Act.” (Steinmetz 3) By passing these bills, cities and states will be violating a civil right, which has been argued about since the topic of transgender protections has come to light. If these policies go into effect, we will be denying our fellow humans the right to use the restroom based on their gender identity. Professor at the University of Alabama Justin Johnson says, “Trans men are men and trans women are women. It does not matter if you agree with their lifestyle, you have every right to disagree if you so please, but we as a society cannot continue to belittle the lives of the trans community just because we don’t understand it completely.” ( “Both Sides Of The Topic: Transgender ‘Bathroom Bills’” 3) Our country, and the states within it, need to understand that these are real people they are hurting. What about the transgender people in your city or state? What do you think you’re telling them? I’ll tell you what you’re telling them: you are not valued. That is one the most damaging statements to give to someone, and the fact that you would do that just to keep your closed-minded ideals still relevant is disgusting, aboslutely

In recent years the idea of being a transgender has become a huge issue in many ways. Recently, President Barak Obama issued an executive order demanding that every public school allow anyone identifying as the opposite sex may use bathroom and shower facilities opposite their birth sex. This has created a dilemma everywhere throughout the U.S.. This is considered an overreach because the President is misusing his authority and misinterpreting the 1964 Civil Rights Act to force a new law. Title VII of the Civil Right Act of 1964 prohibits any employer from choosing which sex he decides to be. In 1972 Congress ADDED Title IX demanding that all schools, which receive federal funds,

Ever wondered what it's like to not feel safe while using the bathroom? Many transgender students get harassed and discriminated for going to the bathroom with the gender they identify with because of their different anatomy, also many people are transphobic and don’t support them so they treat transgender people unequally and act more superior than them. Transgender students should be able to go to the bathroom with the gender they identify by because it violates the 14th amendment, singles out other transgender students, and it also makes them feel no longer safe and protected because they have to use the bathroom of the opposite gender or go to the nurse's office.

President administration passed a new law allowing transgender student to choose restroom that is in accordance with their mental sexual identification in school, which has aroused a heated discussion among the public.

A recent issue about transgender students has been occurring all over the United States. Whether or not transgender students should be allowed to use the bathroom at school of the sex they identify with not the sex they were born into. Everyday around the United States it is a constant source of humiliation for transgender students not being able to use the bathroom of the sex they identify with. During my interview with Ryan Foss, he said “it felt like a slap in the face,” when he was told that he could no longer use the men’s restroom at school. Over the past few years there have been more and more talk about whether or not it is against transgender students to be told they cannot use the bathroom of the sex they identify with.

Many lawmakers claim that men will call themselves transgender just to enter women’s restrooms and prey on girls, but there is no known case of this ever happening (“Transgender Rights”). Making discriminatory bills has not solved anything because there was no issue to be solved to begin with. If anything, these bills have potentially created a problem that never existed prior to their creation. Society would be safer for everyone if people would respect other people’s decision to live as they wish within the limits of the law. People do not have to agree with gender identity struggles to show kindness and decency to the people around them; this decency can prevent transgender people from feeling helpless in a world that constantly tears their community down. Alan Greenblatt backs this by citing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, who says, “We know through historical data that people will be more successful in their transition if they have some social support, a very highly developed sense of their self in relation to the world and that they're not socially or emotionally impaired” (“Transgender

The first article I found was posted in The New York Times on September 1, 2015. The title of the article is called “Missouri Teenagers Protest a Transgender Student’s Use of the Girls’ Bathroom”. Students at Hillsboro High School, in Missouri are protesting a transgender student requesting to use the girls’ bathroom. Lila Perry started to identify as a female at the age of 13. But, it was not until last year that she made her transitioning publicly known. The high school decided to let her use the girls’ bathroom at the beginning of this school year. More than 100 students walked out of class on October 31st, 2015 for an hour in a protest over the schools decision on letting Lila use the girls’ bathroom and locker room. Lila had drop out of

Saying that transgender kids should not be able to go to school or even be separated in stores is very extreme. I don’t see why they shouldn’t get an education. But having them separated in stores is too crazy. How would they be able to shop for things they may need. In comparison, what you’re saying is just like when slavery was around. Whites were separated from blacks, but in this situation, all people are separated from transgender’s.

The issue that is being pointed out is that there are other students who could feel uncomfortable about the situation, just like the five girls who attended the school affected by the Office ruling. They were willing to speak up about their displeasure of the ruling by the office, but they made it clear that they had no qualms with the transgendered student’s lifestyle and choices. Like most students, even the few that have been interviewed throughout Thornridge have shown great positivity to the matter and have shown no issue with the hot topic at hand. However, it must be kept in mind that places like the school locker-room is already a controversial subject to debate about. Since locker rooms are seen by a lot of students as an uncomfortable area due to having to expose yourself in a public area with other students within the same space. And it takes a lot for a student to make their selves comfortable enough to openly change in front of peers and those that they are not acquainted