Transgender Issues In Schools

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The rights of both adult and teenage transgenders are more accommodating than the rest of the adults and teenageers. The decision to change genders is a hard one and can sometimes be influenced by outside sources. The new decisions regarding where the transgenders go to the bathroom has raised a lot of concern throughout the transgender community. The controversy over the robe change color in Ashland, Massachusetts has brought up questions for the general public regarding if this process was taking in account all of the students feelings or not. Transgenders have become more apparent and popular in our everyday lives causing some controversy between their rights and the rest of the people’s rights.
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The traditional blue robes worn by boys and white by girls came to an end this June. Facing the new transgender students, superintendent James Adams wanted to ensure the whole school felt inclusive but most importantly apart of the day 's events. The “Graduating students.. Felt [the new robe change] was imposed on them”. (Alia Wong) The tradition like almost all schools across america is to have two different color gowns, a darker color for boys and the lighter for girls, this year the students didn’t get a say in whether they wanted the change or not. “The idea was really kind of thrown upon [the students] without [them] knowing, and there was really nothing [they] could do about it”. (Alia Wong )The students have no say in the matter, the effort of inclusivity has ironically left the majority out of the decision on the changing of color robes. When the norm of boys wearing a one color and the girls another was set, a tradition began. Although back then the students did not have say in the matter, now as times change and democracy grows they believe they should have as much of a say as the transgenders get. The transgender students who are 3% of the class members, had a say in the change of robes when the other 97% of students didn 't at all. The disappointment in the color change is because the school didn’t include the other students in the matter. Joseph Wright “[remembers] everyone was a little bit disappointed regarding his school’s new idea of changing its robe colors”. (Alia Wong) The norm or tradition of girls wearing the lighter color and boys the darker one was changed when some students felt it wasn 't inclusive of all the

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