Transgenders Should Be Allowed In Schools

We shouldn’t get rid of transgender students school rights. Being more strict on bullying helps transgender students feel more safe. “In recent years, cultural, political and legal resistance to the oppression of transgender people has resulted in greater visibility of the issues facing this population and growing recognition of gender identity and expression discrimination. As these issues gain greater attention, and as obstacles to trans people’s participation in education and employment are addressed, we will likely continue to have more trans and gender nonconforming people in our classes. These tips may be helpful in ensuring that your classroom is a welcoming place for UW’s trans and gender nonconforming students and unintentional exclusionary practices are reduced and eliminated, allowing students to perform at their full potential in class” (1)’(Spade). This makes everyone feel equal. Schools should find more helpful articles that give them tips on how to deal with this issue. It is inconsequential that people believe that schools should get rid of transgender rights just because they believe being transgender is a mental

It’s not hard to say that America has come so far into society and our freedom. How can our country forget when slavery ended in 1865 and gave women more rights in 1920. However, over time America has ignored the basic rights of transgender people. Transgender people are not any different from African Americans, or women. Why should they be treated any different, they're humans just like everybody else. They deserve the same basic treatment as a human rather than being treated like they're not from this planet. There are transgender people today who are getting harassed and tormented for just going into the bathroom for what they identify as. They should be able to go into a bathroom for which gender they identify as. Rather than making special bathrooms for transgender people that make them stand out and feel like they’re labeling themselves for using.

Most don’t explicitly look into the complexity of a transgender person’s life and all the questions or problems one might face: Do I use the men’s or the women’s bathroom? Is it appropriate to use this locker room? Those are only two of the many questions a transgender person might run into on a daily basis because of how others would see the situation, how the people who may have a sneaking suspicion that the woman they saw go into the ladies’ bathroom isn’t actually female by their definition, or how it could also seem strange to see that same person go into the mens’ bathroom. These all lead to dysphoria in any person’s situation in public places due to the fact that many choose to taunt or mock the person; however, with the help of Title IX these questions could start to vanish from the thoughts of many transgender students which Blad exemplifies with a quote in her article:

Recently, the issue of allowing transgender people access to public facilities according to the gender they identify with has caused much debate throughout the United States. The bathroom bill seeks to control access to public facilities of transgender individuals, based on the gender they were assigned at birth. In 2015, bills were passed stating entering a bathroom not assigned to a person at birth was a crime. Surrounded by misconception, the bill does “not legalize harassment, stalking, violence, or sexual assault.” Since the bill arose, there have not been a rise in violence or other incidents in the states protecting the transgender rights (Transgender Equality). The bill simply states if one is living as a woman, to use the women’s restroom,

The LGBT community has experienced discrimination for some time now. After Gay marriage was legalised in June 2015 across America, many thought this was a step moving in the right direction for minority rights. Recently North Carolina has passed a bathroom law forcing transgender people to use the bathroom to which their sex aligns with, not gender, regardless if they have transitioned. Chances are you have probably heard about this on a variety of different news stations including CNN and Fox News. Now Obama is threatening to pass a law that allows transgender students to use the bathroom/locker room their gender aligns with. According to a Wall street journal article Eleven states are ready to sue Obama because they do not agree with this law.

In the wake of Trump’s election the LGBTQ community faces uncertainty about what protection the U.S. government will provide. Last week’s Supreme Court ruling of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission displayed that a majority of the Court support discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation for the sake of religious neutrality. While refusing to bake a gay couple a wedding cake is not inherently harmful, the arguments used to justify segregation or refusing services can be detrimental when applied to other queer discrimination cases. In the recent months Trump’s administration has been rolling back protections that the Obama administration put in place provide transgender people with adequate healthcare and humane treatment

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

Today, the transgender bathroom policy is a popular topic in politics. If put into effect this law would allow students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. When a student can’t use the bathroom they prefer, it conflicts with basic human rights. Every student should have the opportunity to be him or herself in a learning environment; no matter what gender they are assigned at birth. To be accepted by your peers is also a very important concern to the transgender community as they struggle with accepting themselves. Much violence is aimed towards them due to being different. Transgender students should not have to plead for their basic human rights in school.

The effort to promote a more tolerant society has polluted America’s legislation with bills that favor the rights of minorities over the rights of the majority. One instance of such acts are the newly emerging neutral bathroom policy laws. This law, designed in favor of transgenders, establishes public bathrooms that any individual can enter regardless of their sex. While democratic liberals back these policies because it allows the LGBTQ community to use the bathroom that corresponds to their identity, the reality that results from this situation is much darker. Author Kaeley Triller realizes the consequences of allowing these neutral bathroom policies in her article: “A Rape Survivor Speaks Out About Transgender Bathrooms”, in which she, being a former victim of sexual assault, explains the dangers of such laws. She states, “I am not saying that transgender people are predators… What I am saying is that there are countless deviant men in this world who will pretend to be transgender as a means of gaining access to the people they want to exploit, namely women and children. It already happens. Just Google Jason

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.

According to Anemona Hartcollis in "Bathroom Debate Turns Personal in Small Town." published to the New York Times on 09/13/2016, “''As we move forward as a community, there has to be compassion on both sides,'' Ms. Brown said.” Many people are accepting of the LGBT community, it just takes some time for some people to get used to change. This is the direction the future is headed, and some people need to get over their bigoted ways and accept their peers for who they are. This article gathered information supplied by a trans student in a small town school and told the story of their school making progressive change. As many small towns are, we can assume it was rural and had a conservative majority. This political classification typically strongly opposes legislation giving “queer” people more rights. It seems that many people were uncomfortable with sharing restrooms with transgender students at first, but once people realize they mean no harm, they just want to live as they are, it poses no issue. In the article there were strong opposers to the bathroom changes, but life went on as usual. Early in 2016 when the Obama Administration threatened a loss of federal funding to public schools that did not conform to the new guidelines regarding discrimination and transgendered students. The new treatment guidelines featured the the mandation of equal treatment to students identifying

In order for our community to prosper we have to be open minded,transgenders were people and had equal rights before the transition,and still remain people with equality.We as people and have equal rights should let transgenders use public restrooms.If i am aware there is no harmful cause affecting the people around them because of the transgenders using public restrooms.It may bother some people,but it shouldn’t because we are all the same even if we have become transgenders.The transgenders should be allowed beacuse they live in a free country and have the right to do that,ad if other people have a problem with that then they could go and fix it thereselves,i don’t see anything wrong with a transgender walking into a public restroom and minding and doing their own business.

LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual) laws in the United States have been a hot topic for the past few years. The United States struggle to find a median to establish rules for LGBTQ individuals. Schools especially endeavor whether to allow LGBT rights to pass or to deny specific rights. Senator James Lankford states, “No school wants any student to be bullied or discriminated against, but the Department of Education does not have the authority to operate as a national school board and impose their specific solutions on every district.” This could lead to angry boycotts and violence between numerous LGBT advocate groups and opposition groups. The feud between LGBT advocate groups, the federal government, and the people who believe that

According to the National Taskforce for Transgender Equality, 40% of transgender individuals are unemployed. There are many varying explanations for this number and often, people cite a hatred for the transgender community as reason for the high rates of unemployment. This number is startling, and it might be even more startling to find that only 16 states protect the employment of transgender individuals, meaning that the vast majority of states do not have measures already in place to protect transgender individuals from being fired for being themselves. Studies have shown that most people believe that there are already many laws in place concerning the treatment of LGBT persons in the workforce, but the truth is that there are no such laws in most states and, according to how ENDA has been voted upon in the past, there are those who believe that no such laws are necessary. While there is a growing need for ENDA, there is also a growing need for the bill to be more inclusive. Two separate times, ENDA has been revised to remove the gender identity clause from the original document. Both times the bill was more widely accepted in congress, but garnered more opposition from the LGBT community. Along with the LGBT community’s opposition were groups of people that stood in opposition of the bill for different reasons. Many oppose anti-discrimination legislation on the grounds that it is not protecting freedom of speech

The gay rights movement has used the demonstrations and tactics of those who marched with Dr. King to support their stance on bathroom rights and other litigations. As time goes by states have developed their own laws regarding gay rights. Several states have changed policies by where people who are transgender can change their original documentation to include their new gender specific identity. (Time| U.S.) However, despite the changes in law and the countless conversations about this topic, there are still many people who are opposed to the law and desires of those who identify as being gay and transgender. Concerns were raised that these new laws would only fan the already high crime rate against women and children attacked by predators. If anyone can then gain access to whichever bathroom they identified with, what safety would exist against those people who are predators? As protest and debates continue regarding this issue, lawmakers working alongside the courts to clarify what is considered discrimination and what is considered human rights.