Unisex

Conformists to the idea of unisex bathrooms don’t want them to be in the public eye or around the traditional bathrooms. The Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) club in Wahconah Regional High School felt that the transgender and gender non-conforming students of Wahconah were feeling targeted for wanting to use the bathroom that they prefer. Consequently, in the school year of 2015-2016, the school changed two of their bathrooms to be gender neutral. A safe alternative to using the standard restrooms would have been to have gender neutral bathrooms located in the school. In Wahconah, the best location for these new bathrooms was determined to be in the music hallway, or G hall. There were already two single-stall bathrooms installed, one for girls and one for boys. After talking…

That is why the unisex myth that calls for “an end to all distinctions based on sex” is so destructive for normal sexual identification. Our culture has developed these sex-role stereotypes because they are useful in childrearing and help reinforce adolescent and adult sexual identities. (pg310). Includes those arbitrary classifications of employment categories that hinder the individual’s freedom to develop talents and abilities. If your little children want to play a game of “hospital,” it…

"I'm not unisex. I'm a boy,” said 17 year old Gavin Grimm who is a transgender male, born with the anatomy of a female, attending Gloucester High School in Virginia. He simply wanted to use the male bathroom not the unisex one and the case went to the Supreme Court in October 2016. Transgender people should be allowed to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. Transgenders are just recently becoming more accepted throughout society, the first medical sex change was as recently as…

having at birth” (Websters Dictionary). A transgender person, although born male or female, may feel that they were born in the wrong body and are the opposite sex. According to a 2011 study conducted by the Williams Institute there roughly nine million Transgender Americans (Williams institute). Sex and gender are often used interchangeably when they are, in fact, two different things. We are assigned our sex at birth and it corresponds to whatever genitalia we are born with; gender, however,…

Recent legislation and legal cases have brought the issue of transgender use of public restrooms to attention. With current policies that vary from state to state, transgender people experience harassment, denial of access, and discomfort when it comes to public restrooms. The majority of research on this topic focuses on the problem without providing a solution. Furthermore, most research fails to make a connection between unisex restrooms and the legal rights of transgender people. Commonly,…

the current review will present a brief overview of the history of unisex toilets and how this subject has been an important issue for the Transgender community. Secondly, it will take into consideration the Bathroom bill approved in North Carolina in March 2016, and the consequences that arose. Specifically, the present review will take into account the subsequent act that occurred a few months late on June 21st, 2016, that is the approval of the Gender-Neutral Bathroom bill in New York City.…

Unisex clothing would further diminish the boundaries between male and female, allowing individuals to freely dress in ways that are not out of the norm by societal standards. If unisex clothing became the societal norm, gender would require getting to know the individual rather than informal visual cures provided by their choice of clothing. For example, the first day new undergrads moved into the sixth college dorms, we received a sixth college shirt, equal in appearance for both sexes but…

It’s the beginning of third period and a certain student is in the nurse’s office waiting on the only unisex restroom to be available. Between the kid in the corner rocking back and forth trying to hold back puke that’s seconds away from erupting out of his mouth and the girl moaning in the restroom due to unknown reasons, the chances of the student being there for less than five minutes is very unlikely. There is a reason the student walked all the way to the nurse's office and chose to be…

I felt that it could unsafe for woman and children to share bathroom with man who change their gender to become a woman. Like a lot of people I did not feel comfortable sharing the same bathroom with a girl whose true gender is boy. What I felt that president Obama should have done was to come up with a new law that public schools, places and businesses should provide a unisex bathroom for transgender people. I felt that if president Obama have done that everyone who are their truth gender would…

required all transgender students to use the bathroom they feel most comfortable in. But not all states complied with the obama administration. Texas state’ attorney general, Ken Paxton said it should be a “localized” decision, many other states agreed. Texas along with 12 other states filed a brief in federal court on May 2016 to stop the Obama administration from enforcing its “ interpretation” of the laws. In many ways traditional bathrooms don't function with different kinds of families.…