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Transgender Students’ Right to Use Gender-Appropriate Bathrooms Transgender students should be allowed to use the bathroom that would be appropriate for a non-transgender student with the same gender identity and expression as the transgender student, regardless of the transgender student’s birth sex. Requiring a transgender male student to use the women’s room would likely make everyone uncomfortable--the transgender male student as well as the non-transgender female students with whom he would have to share the facility. The same would be true for transgender women. 1 Denial of access to the appropriate bathroom for transgender people could be considered sex discrimination under the law. 2  You may also live in one of the dozen or so states or over 125 cities and counties where there are specific protections against discrimination on the basis of gender identity. 1 Show them this toolkit! 2  Explain that transgender people deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and are harmed by being denied access to appropriate restroom facilities. 3  If you are still denied access to the appropriate bathroom, you can file a complaint with your local or state anti-discrimination agency. Getting a sex change is proof enough that you are transgender. That would be A ok in my book. However, I was under the impression that transitioning (students that have not had the sex change) would be allowed to use the other bathroom. Who is the student-any transgender. Who am I-somebody who can vote. This question is very basic. Should we change our policies to allow transitioning transgender students to use the opposite sex bathroom when they are not at the present time that sex. I think they should because they were born with what they have and they need to accept it cant change it now. If they chose the opposite gender than they naturally born with they might get made fun of or worse. So that is why they should be forced to use a particular bathroom. Transgender women tend to face incredibly high risks for sexual assault compared to really any other demographic. They are vastly more likely to be in danger using a men's room that cis women are when trans women are allowed to use the restroom of their choosing. If you have the sex change to be a woman, you should have the right to use the female bathroom. What I am saying is that TRANSITIONING people, transgender without the sex change, should not be allowed since this would cause the problems I mentioned. Con. Who is the student-any transgender. Who am I-somebody who can vote. This question is very basic. Should we change our policies to allow transitioning transgender students to use the opposite sex bathroom when they are not at the present time that sex. Not an issue of rights, but more of fighting for special privileges that aren't deserved. There's nothing special about transgenders that warrants the allowance of bathroom selection. If they are born male, use the men's restroom. If born a women, use the women's room. Transgender women tend to face incredibly high risks for sexual assault compared to really any other demographic. They are vastly more likely to be in danger using a men's room that cis women are when trans women are allowed to use the restroom of their choosing. No they shouldn't. For some Transgender people, it could be hard for them to make the decision on which bathroom they should go to.It could make them very uncomfortable with being in a specific bathroom.It also increases the probability of violent hate crimes, sexual assault, and rape. Transgender women tend to face incredibly high risks for sexual assault compared to really any other demographic. They are vastly more likely to be in danger using a men's room that cis women are when trans women are allowed to use the restroom of their choosing. Republicans (at 71 percent) are more likely than Democrats (56 percent) and independents (55 percent) to think transgender students should have to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their birth gender, as are conservatives (69 percent) in comparison to liberals (50 percent) and moderates (55 percent). As the issue of the rights of transgender people comes more to the foreground, schools across the U.S. have been confronted with a new issue: how to handle gender-specific bathrooms and locker rooms. A state law passed in California allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice, while some school districts in other parts of the country have been criticized for mandating that students use the facilities of the gender with which they were born. As the issue of the rights of transgender people comes more to the foreground, schools across the U.S. have been confronted with a new issue: how to handle gender-specific bathrooms and locker rooms. But there are greater differences by age. Just 23 percent of Americans age 30 and older think transgender students should be able to pick which facilities to use, compared to 35 percent of Americans under 30. As the issue of the rights of transgender people comes more to the foreground, schools across the U.S. have been confronted with a new issue: how to handle gender-specific bathrooms and locker rooms.
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