On Feb. 22, Donald Trump caused major buzz by rescinding Title IX, the policy that had protected transgender students’ rights to use the bathroom of their choice. The ongoing bathroom debate has polarized the nation, creating enthusiastic supporters of the move and zealous protesters. The negative view of transgenderism that people hold creates a lack of protection for transgender students, who are more vulnerable on average than other students.
A junior from Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Virginia, Gavin Grimm is a female-to-male transgender teenager who was initially allowed to use the male restroom at his school. However, he was forced to use the female bathroom after the district received numerous complaints from boys who claimed …show more content…
During the Obama administration, Title IX of the Education Amendments Acts of 1972, which was originally created to ban sex discrimination in schools, was interpreted by courts and the US Justice and Education Departments to prohibit discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming students. However, currently the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education, which previously enforced Title IX, will not investigate any claims of anti-trans discrimination under the direction of DeVos. This reduces the protection that trans students receive to only state and district policies which vary vastly by locality. Though this may not affect students in California majorly, since the School Success and Opportunity Act ensures transgender youth to have the opportunity to fully participate in schools, the rest of the country’s trans students are left without federal protection.
Despite the fact that the concept of transgenderism predates written history, many people fail to truly grasp what it means to be trans. A person’s identity is far more than their chromosomes, beyond getting reconstructive surgery and hormone shots. Moreover, the existence of intersex people, those born with anomalous chromosomes, implies that male and female are not the only …show more content…
Whether you believe transgenderism is real or not, right or not, transgender students exist in our own communities; in our state, our cities and even our school. But they are fellow students before they are transgender. The future of transgender rights remains unknown as transgenderism has only come into the mainstream attention in the past decade. Discrimination against transgender students is a constant, looming threat, but the government, instead of blocking this injustice, enables
A junior from Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Virginia, Gavin Grimm is a female-to-male transgender teenager who was initially allowed to use the male restroom at his school. However, he was forced to use the female bathroom after the district received numerous complaints from boys who claimed …show more content…
During the Obama administration, Title IX of the Education Amendments Acts of 1972, which was originally created to ban sex discrimination in schools, was interpreted by courts and the US Justice and Education Departments to prohibit discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming students. However, currently the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education, which previously enforced Title IX, will not investigate any claims of anti-trans discrimination under the direction of DeVos. This reduces the protection that trans students receive to only state and district policies which vary vastly by locality. Though this may not affect students in California majorly, since the School Success and Opportunity Act ensures transgender youth to have the opportunity to fully participate in schools, the rest of the country’s trans students are left without federal protection.
Despite the fact that the concept of transgenderism predates written history, many people fail to truly grasp what it means to be trans. A person’s identity is far more than their chromosomes, beyond getting reconstructive surgery and hormone shots. Moreover, the existence of intersex people, those born with anomalous chromosomes, implies that male and female are not the only …show more content…
Whether you believe transgenderism is real or not, right or not, transgender students exist in our own communities; in our state, our cities and even our school. But they are fellow students before they are transgender. The future of transgender rights remains unknown as transgenderism has only come into the mainstream attention in the past decade. Discrimination against transgender students is a constant, looming threat, but the government, instead of blocking this injustice, enables