Imagine being somewhere for a full day, approximately seven to eight hours, where you are experiencing high levels of stress and heavy workloads. You are scrambling to keep all of your priorities together while still meeting the expectations of your superiors. Now imagine doing all of this plus carrying an additional concern- not having somewhere you feel comfortable enough to use the restroom. For transgendered students on college campuses, this is a real, daily scenario they are stuck in. People have tried to raise their voices for help, but oftentimes no one hears them. This is mainly because of the small amount of students who are transgendered that make up a university’s total student population. Along with the normal stresses of being
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Students may have come from small cities where there is not much variation amongst the town’s people. Implementing these restrooms helps begin facilitating conversation on college campuses about how to celebrate students’ diversities. When it comes to this matter, it is the college’s responsibility to provide students the measures needed to feel safe and included. For example, Joel Rudin, a professor who works in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Rowan University, performed a research experiment with five colleagues on collegiate business students that tested their level of inclusiveness towards transgendered people and the restroom they were utilizing. The experiment ran over the course of two years from 2012 to 2013. In the first year, most students tested on a higher hostility level. However, after the second year most students tested on a higher inclusive level (Rudin). When given the resources to make educated decisions, many students will choose to be inclusive and more understanding of transgendered students’ circumstances. This is why it is important to be open minded and discuss the importance of gender neutral restrooms because, otherwise, there never may come a change to some college campuses across the
Students may have come from small cities where there is not much variation amongst the town’s people. Implementing these restrooms helps begin facilitating conversation on college campuses about how to celebrate students’ diversities. When it comes to this matter, it is the college’s responsibility to provide students the measures needed to feel safe and included. For example, Joel Rudin, a professor who works in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Rowan University, performed a research experiment with five colleagues on collegiate business students that tested their level of inclusiveness towards transgendered people and the restroom they were utilizing. The experiment ran over the course of two years from 2012 to 2013. In the first year, most students tested on a higher hostility level. However, after the second year most students tested on a higher inclusive level (Rudin). When given the resources to make educated decisions, many students will choose to be inclusive and more understanding of transgendered students’ circumstances. This is why it is important to be open minded and discuss the importance of gender neutral restrooms because, otherwise, there never may come a change to some college campuses across the