Transgender Bathroom Rights: Common Questions

1. Transgender Bathroom Rights: Common Questions

2. Which bathrooms should transgender students use? • Transgender students should use the bathrooms that correspond with their gender identities. • Psychological health • Well-being • Education

3. Does a transgender person have to look a certain way to use a specific bathroom? • No • Transgender people do not need to “pass” • No rule exists • Cisgender vs Transgender

4. Do transgender people need to have gender-affirming surgery (SRS) to use the bathrooms that align with their identities? • Gender-affirming surgery (SRS) • Genital reconstructive surgery • No • Surgery has nothing to do with gender identity • Invasion of privacy • Companies cannot ask questions like that

5. How do unisex bathrooms affect women’s safety? • Myth that cisgender women are at risk in unisex bathrooms • Cisgender women • No evidence that cisgender women are safer in segregated bathrooms versus unisex bathrooms • Laws protecting people from criminal conduct in public bathrooms • Transgender women • 53% of 6,430 transgender people report being harassed in places of public accomodation • Outing transgender people can lead to harassment

6. Why can’t transgender people just use unisex bathrooms? • Unisex bathrooms are great for nonbinary people and other members of the transgender community, however if unisex bathrooms are the only option for transgender students, that separates transgender students from their cisgender peers.

7. How should teachers react if a cisgender student has a problem with sharing a bathroom with a transgender student? • Whose responsibility is it? • The student who has the issue with sharing a bathroom with a transgender student should go to the unisex bathroom

8. What can transgender students do if they are facing harassment for the bathrooms they are using? • Stay calm • Report the incident • Educate • File complaint • Can still be considered sex discrimination