AB 1266 Argumentative Essay

Can a six-teen year old boy, who self-determines his gender at any given time, be allowed to decide for himself to go to a girl’s restroom, locker room, or join the girls’ soccer team without having to explain himself to anyone? According to the AB 1266 bill, now he can. The “School Success and Opportunity Act was signed by California governor Jerry Brown last year in August 12, 2013, and went into effect in January 1, 2014. This law allows all students, from kindergartens all the way to high school to use private sex-separated facilities such as showers, restrooms and locker rooms based on the student’s perceived gender identity rather than their actual sex. This bill also allows the opposite sex to enter any kind of sport, regardless of …show more content…
I should have graduated this year, but my school refused to give me the same opportunity to succeed as other boys. Now other transgender youth won’t have to choose between being themselves and graduating high school.” Supporters of the bill argued in court that graduating in time was one of their main concerns for transgender students, and that approving this bill would be essential in order for that to happen. Many opposed to this bill would differ with that avowal, especially because there is no direct correlation between a transsexual being able to graduate in time for lack of credits, and him or her not being able to use the appropriate restroom/locker room or join sports that suited their sex identity. It would be different, if the issue was about a student not being permitted to attend a class because he or she is a transgender, and consequently affecting his or her grade point average; to which by the way there are laws already in place that protect them against that issue. However in this case, the bill explicitly addresses the issue of abolishing restroom, locker rooms, and sport segregation for the purpose of making it open for anyone who feel biologically