School Bathrooms Debate

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The Bathroom Policy is a bill that should have never needed to exist. In May of 2016, Barak Obama passed a bill for the ‘protection’ of transgender individuals in public schools all across the nation. This didn’t work out as planned. Men dressed as woman to secretly film them changing in bathrooms, teachers filmed pupils in bathrooms, even security guards have filmed under aged children for their own needs. You see this bill cause a lot of trouble, causing North Carolina to put a bill into action rebutting this law, making people use the restroom that identifies with the one on their birth certificate. Things have been up in the air, trans boys being caught using the boys bathroom and being suspended, trans girls taking special precautions in an actual court, suing the school who dared not let a boy in the girls restroom. …show more content…
Trump has passes a bill rebutting Obamas own bathroom bill. Now it is up to the schools to decide what bathrooms the students use. I very much like this bill and feel like a lot of good will come out of it. Now to expand on this bill, I believe that trans students should talk to their school about what bathrooms to use and let the school decide, if the school says no to using your desired bathroom, deal with it, suck it up, its not the end of the world. Now I do not think locker rooms should even be a question. No, trans students may not use the locker room of their choice. Its biological. Now in the work place I think you should have to talk to a supervisor and explain your situation first. I think that all trans people should be taking hormones to live in their desired body. If you are a biological

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