Gender-Queers Should Not Be Allowed In Schools

When someone is physically assaulted, they may obviously sustain injuries from the incident and/or gain an ongoing fear of a similar event happening again in the future, spawning yet another factor that takes a toll on mental health (Schuster 101). Despite lack of scientific studies about gender-queer individuals, it is not arduous to decipher how people should treat transgender persons in order to allow them mental and physical stability. Simply having increased social and parental support with a lower exposure to transphobia and access to personal identification, documentation, and medical needs that reflected the transgender individual’s gender identity lead to a stupendous decrease in suicidal ideation and attempts (McManama 249). Gender

To put it simply with a quote from a parent arguing for the implementation of gender neutral bathrooms in schools, “If you can prevent a suicide, that’s good (Madigan).” All things considered, the argument barring transgender people from their bathroom of choice is typically founded on one single misconception, the aforementioned delusion that that transgender women and/or sexual predators will take advantage of others in restrooms. This reasoning predominantly derives from debates always “anchor[ing] to [transgender women’s] imagined ‘male anatomies’ and thus become categorized as potential sexual threats to those vested with vulnerable subjecthood, namely cisgender women (Schilt 14).” However, this statement is a gross generalization on both genders. It is axiomatic that not all persons with a penis is a sexual predator and not all persons with a vagina are meek, defenseless creatures incapable of defending themselves, calling the authorities, or simply removing themselves from the

However, at the same time, the reasoning and way of thinking that allows this bill to even be considered contributes to an unhealthy view on the gender binary. Opponents that disseminate the idea of vulnerable subjecthood around women and that men are inherent rapist reinforce gender inequality and bias that affects subjects far beyond transgender rights (Schilt 6). For instance, if a man was raped by a woman, there will likely be a double standard that man has to face if he were to ever lament about the event such as accusations that he may have enjoyed it, he was the one that initiated it, and so on. Furthermore, not only are these beliefs harmful, they are completely nonsensical. The majority of U.S. culture view men, or specifically people assumed to have penises, as potentially formidable guardians for vulnerable persons such as sisters, mothers, daughters, and wives; yet somehow, “men” are also viewed as a potential source of threat to women they may not have relational ties to due to the belief that men continuously seek out sexual interactions with little to no restraints on how to achieve it (Schilt). Not only is this is an absurd duality for a category of people, society will often cherry pick these inconsistencies to fit their needs. Transgender women are sorted into the category of “people with penises”, making many people consider them “really men”, but they