Individuals who identify their sexuality as transgender face extreme persecution every day around the world; especially in the United States, a country initially founded on personal freedom. A hot topic politically and morally is the debate between whether people who identify as transgender should be able to use the bathroom of their choice. Transgenders believe their personal identity does not correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth. After realizing this, those who wish to become transgender start hormone therapy, many undergo gender reassignment surgery, and in some states gender reassigning patients can go through a process of acquiring documentation from a psychologist or doctor to legally change their gender. Once someone
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When he began to use the male restroom concerns arose among school officials and parents of students. In December of 2014 the school board passed a policy banning him from using the male or female restroom, instead he would have to use a separate single-stall restroom. “For me, the thought of going into a separate restroom which might as well be labeled ‘other’ was just far too much to bare.” pleaded Grimm. He decided to take action in 2015 and sue the Gloucester County School Board in federal court for the right to use the restroom in peace--for himself and all transgender youth, the lawsuit argues the bathroom policy is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment and violates Title IX of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972, a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination by …show more content…
Men who are gay use the male restroom, Lesbians use the female restroom, and Bi-sexuals use their gender assigned restroom. These groups are literally using a restroom with a sex they are attracted to, and even then I don't think they deserve a separate single-stall bathroom either. To take the right for a student which has undergone surgery or taken hormones to become the gender of their choice is hypocritical. To have a transgender male with facial hair and possible male genitalia use the female restroom is no different than having a male in the female
When he began to use the male restroom concerns arose among school officials and parents of students. In December of 2014 the school board passed a policy banning him from using the male or female restroom, instead he would have to use a separate single-stall restroom. “For me, the thought of going into a separate restroom which might as well be labeled ‘other’ was just far too much to bare.” pleaded Grimm. He decided to take action in 2015 and sue the Gloucester County School Board in federal court for the right to use the restroom in peace--for himself and all transgender youth, the lawsuit argues the bathroom policy is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment and violates Title IX of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972, a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination by …show more content…
Men who are gay use the male restroom, Lesbians use the female restroom, and Bi-sexuals use their gender assigned restroom. These groups are literally using a restroom with a sex they are attracted to, and even then I don't think they deserve a separate single-stall bathroom either. To take the right for a student which has undergone surgery or taken hormones to become the gender of their choice is hypocritical. To have a transgender male with facial hair and possible male genitalia use the female restroom is no different than having a male in the female