Restrooms

Joe is a fifteen-year-old boy whom is in the process of transitioning into the gender that he identifies. As of now, he is in the gender non-conforming stage of his transformation. “Should I use the women’s restroom? Should I use the men’s restroom? What if someone harasses or assaults me if I go in there? I just do not know what to do.” This could go through the mind of someone going through the non-passing phase of transitioning into a transgender individual. Lately, there has been heavy discussion

story; this is just a day in the life of a transgender man trying to use a public restroom. An everyday situation like this can be both stressful and filled with anxiety. Transgender is

Transgendered People Have the Right to Use the Restroom of Their Choice The bathroom debate is a very serious touchy subject, and in several states, a controversial law was passed stating that if a transgender person has sex reassignment surgery they have the right to change the sex on their birth certificate, and in turn, they will be allowed to use the restroom of their choice. (BusinessInsider). However, not all people who are transgender feel comfortable with having gender reassignment surgery

protects transgender men and women in using the appropriate restroom for their claimed status of sexual identity. On the flip note, many people feel uncomfortable to be sharing the restroom with a person who was born a man, however, identifies herself as a woman and vice versa. The problem is not who is using the “proper” restroom, the problem is people who are demanding greater rights than a transgender individual. The use of public restrooms in the transgender community is a tedious and astounding

Rather it's being born a male with females intentions or vice versa, this has became a public issue made towards both male and females in public restrooms. Discussions between states, former President Obama, current President Trump, school systems and people concerned about inequalities, have debated that it would be best for everyone to use the restroom according to gender at birth, meanwhile,

Dr. Jennifer Parrott essay, No Place to Go: The Importance of the Family Restroom, suggests family restrooms are an essential for disabled people, single-parents, and transgendered people. The way Dr. Parrott supports her essay is with an explanation of a family restroom. Then she allows here readers in her on private space. As she told the story of her 18 year old son with server of case Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, the reader cannot help getting emotional involved. Then she told of other stories

Transgender Bathroom Access Gavin Grimm is a 17-year-old transgender student at Gloucester High School. His school district requires all transgender students to use separate restroom facilities. He wants to use the normal male restrooms at the school, but the district hasn’t allowed him to. As a result the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Gloucester School District. A ruling hasn’t yet been reached (“G.G.”). Transgender is a term describing people who feel as though

There is an estimated seven-thousand transgender people in the United States, so about 20-30 percent. Transgender citizens should be able to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity, which restroom a transgender person should use is a civil rights issue, as well as a health and safety one. “It’s not that I’m trying to dress up like a woman. It’s that I’ve spent my whole life dressing as a man.” A quote from Caitlyn Jenner, once known as Bruce Jenner. He’s an inspiration for the transgender

altercation inside the third floor boy’s restroom. AP Cousins and I spoke with Burroughs in the Police Office, who said that he was dropping a friend off by the main stairwell located on the third floor. Burroughs said that a random guy who he didn’t know who was later identified as Jacob Anderson asked him to go to the restroom with him. Burroughs said that since he had to use the restroom, anyway, he went along with the guy. Burroughs said that in the restroom, Anderson said to him that he had heard

concept that each gender must go to the restroom in their designated restroom area. I planned on starting the assignment by choosing a few public restrooms in which I would enter the men’s restroom. That particular behavior breaks a social norm because with most public restrooms; genders are separated by signs or names. Thus, there should be no reason why men or women end up going into the same restroom. I personally believe that