#bathroom bills

[itgetsbetterproject]

When they try to make school harder for LGBTQ+ youth...we make it better.

Over the past 2 years, students across the U.S. have used our 50 States 50 Grants funds to...

Build gender-affirming closets and gender-neutral bathrooms at school

Host their school's first Pride fest or Pride conference

Educate parents and teachers

Fund their GSA club

And so many other rad projects to support their queer students!

Apps are open for Season 3 now through April 1, 2024 - if you have an idea for how you'd use up to $10,000 at your own school (or if you know someone in middle or high school who could), reblog and spread the word!

[sacabambaspis666]

"We want to protect children!" okay. What about trans kids? What about palestinian kids? What about lgbtq+ kids? What about poc kids?

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A federal court judge has ruled that parents in Ohio don’t have the right to challenge a trans-inclusive school bathroom policy.

A case brought by parents and students in the Bethel Local School District (BLSD) in November sought to prohibit trans and non-binary students in the region from using toilets and other facilities consistent with their gender identity.

But, in a ruling issued on Monday (7 August), Judge Michael Newman decreed that the accusations brought by the group did not “pass legal muster” to warrant further consideration.

“Not every contentious debate concerning matters of public importance presents a cognisable federal lawsuit,” Newman wrote in his ruling opinion.

During a school board meeting in January 2022, BLSD announced it had implemented policies allowing transgender students to use communal toilets consistent with their gender identity.

Several months later, a group of parents filed a legal challenge, arguing that their parental rights were being infringed upon by not having a public meeting to discuss the matter.

They further argued that a previous policy, which had no protections for trans students, did not violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which states that no person in the US shall exclude or discriminate against students on the basis of sex.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio argued that the plaintiffs lacked standing for the Title IX claim and that citing parental rights did not immediately require the school to adhere to the group’s demands.

Dismissing the case, Newman wrote that parents do not have a “constitutional right” to revoke school policies on toilet usage.

ACLU Ohio deputy legal director, David Carey, said the ruling reaffirmed that the Constitution is not a vehicle to “compel discrimination.”

He explained: “Nothing in the constitutional guarantees of parenting rights, equal protection or free exercise of religion, mandates that transgender students be excluded from gender-appropriate communal restrooms on the basis of their classmates’ beliefs and values.”

“For public schools to function, one student’s or family’s religious beliefs cannot provide a basis to exclude another student from full participation in the school environment.”

In its legal intervention arguments, the ACLU wrote that it believed the public has a “strong interest” in advancing policies that affirmatively protect transgender students and create inclusive school environments.

The LGBTQ & HIV Project staff attorney at the ACLU, Malita Picasso, said the court’s decision made it “resoundingly clear” that the rights of trans students are “not in conflict” with the rights of their peers.

“No student should have to fear discriminatory treatment every morning they walk into school, and this ruling brings us closer to the day no transgender student has to,” she added.

[predictament]

Trans wins in 2023!!

Article by Erin Reed (Erin in the Morning), Dec 2023

[gay-----pisces2]

people need to realize that transphobia hurts everyone, even cis people.

i remember a story of a masculine woman who wasn't let in to the bathroom because she was deemed likely to be trans but get this...

she was 100% cis.

so, if a cis person doesn't 100% conform they could be deemed trans and get hurt for it.

this is one of the reasons why transphobia is so fucking stupid because ya'll cant even be transphobic "the right way" without excluding cis folks.

(couldn't find the exact situation but heres a different example)

[meili-kese-anyaleko]

Bathroom bills passing won’t keep women safe but they will make a bunch of women less safe.

[death-munchkin]

Reminder: Bathroom Bills don't "protect women"

The only thing they do is give horrible people a reason to judge, harass and even attack anyone they suspect of being trans. Is your mother a bit "too tall"? Is your sister's voice slightly "too deep"? Is your girlfriend's chest a bit "too flat", or your cousin's face a bit "too sharp", your niece's hair a bit "too short"? Well then, they might be a man in disguise, so I a very reasonable human who wants to "protect women" have every right to scream at them for using the women's restroom, to follow them, to demand they show me "proof" of their sex.

Anyone who doesn't fit the stereotype of what is a "woman" or a "man" can be and does get attacked in places where transphobia is fostered this way, in states like Arkansas.

Because humans don't come in 2 shapes and any, ANY rule you make saying that it's okay to single out, harass and attack trans people will also affect a very large section of cis people, male and female, not to mention the obvious harm it does to trans people.

You are hurting your daughters, your mothers, your sisters, your partners, your sons, your nephews. You are hurting your friends and your family, and it's only a matter of time before you hurt yourself too.

[lenbryant]

Dumbass bathroom bills do this. Let my people pee! Conservative homophobes are idiots.

[pensivelyplayfulme]

"So you think MEN should be allowed in WOMEN'S restrooms???"

Bestie, they do not know I don't think bathrooms should be gender segregated to begin with

[angelic-transsexual]

Those of you in the queer community who keep basically demonizing trans men and the affects of testosterone like body/facial hair, muscle gain, etc. saying shit like “would you seriously be comfortable having THIS TRANS MAN in the bathroom with women and children ?!” Is so harmful and damaging. You are hurting trans men. There already have been multiple trans men who have been literally fucking assaulted and beaten for FOLLOWING THE LAW AND USING THE WOMENS. I’m so tired of “the trans debate.” Stop trying to use trans men as some sort of gotcha. This is only going to increase the hate and assault towards transgender men, especially in bathrooms and changing rooms. It also just adds to the demonization of testosterone which already happens. You don’t need to fucking add to it. I’m not gonna sit here and allow you people to make trans men out to be the “scary man in the womens restroom” to try and own transphobes and do a little gotcha moment when engaging with transphobes. This shit is so disgusting you people need to stop. YOU ARE DOING DAMAGE!

[commiepinkofag]

Survey Says

The US Trans Survey is the largest survey of trans people, by trans people, in the United States.

Early Insights Report

[cat-clawz]

Can I get a wahoo?

This likely won't be a permanent fix, but at least it means trans kids can begin the school year without worrying about being sued. Before this got nixed by the court, any student could sue a trans student for a MINIMUM of 5000 dollars if they so much as SAW them in the bathroom matching their gender identity. Glad it's been temporarily (and hopefully permanently, soon) blocked.

[tomorrowusa]

Republican fundamentalist Christians are inherently homophobic, transphobic, and everything else -phobic.

Put Republicans completely in charge of a state government and they will just about pick fights with each other to be the first to propose transphobic bathroom bills, don’t say gay bills, and other discriminatory homophobic measures.

“Democrats across the country have and will continue to push back against the onslaught of homophobic and transphobic attacks we’ve seen in state legislatures,” the party said in their statement.

The GOP has pushed approximately 250 anti-LGBTQ bills around the country over the past year, mostly targeting children and transgender people.

Never forget people who are willing to work with you. 🏳️‍🌈

How many Republicans would be willing to publicly repeat the sentiments expressed by President Biden in his tweet? Certainly not Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

[darkfrog24]

Can’t believe it took me this long to figure this out...

Requiring trans women to use the men’s bathroom doesn’t prevent men from entering women’s spaces to make trouble; it makes it easier.  Think about it.  If the law says you have to use the same bathroom as your birth certificate, then who’s going to the women’s bathroom? Trans men.

Who looks a %$#& of a lot more like a cis man than trans women do, especially from more than ten feet away?  Trans men.

For a cis man to enter a women’s bathroom and claim he’s a trans woman, he has to dress and act like a trans woman in public all the way from where he put on his clothes, makeup, etc. to the bathroom, with all the risks that doing so entails. But if the rule is that trans men must use women’s restrooms?  Then male-looking people going into women’s restrooms will be normal and no one will be alarmed if they see one.  The cis man or boy who only wants to make trouble can just wear his own clothes and mannerisms.

Protect women and girls: Let people use the restroom that matches their public gender role.

[nando161mando]

Protest at Utah Legislature Opposes Anti-Trans 'Bathroom Bill' HB257 Aheas of vote