Concerns about transgender and other gender-expansive students using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity (rather than the sex assigned when they are born) raise many questions for educators, parents, and students alike. The policies shown in this map prohibit transgender people from using bathrooms and facilities-such as locker rooms, shower rooms, changing rooms, and other sex-segregated spaces-according to their gender identity. Some of these policies apply to K-12 school settings, while others apply more broadly to government.
The clash over bathroom policy and other elements of a federal regulation finalized last week could set the stage for another wave of legal battles over how transgender kids should be treated in the U.S. Legislators are seeking to make permanent a rule that students in SC's public schools would need to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex at birth. The school district produced no non-speculative evidence linking the privacy interest with the policy of barring transgender students from the bathroom consistent with their gender identity; and the majority opinion's assertions about privacy ignored that transgender students typically use the bathroom aligning with their gender identity.
All-Access Restrooms Provides background information, planning and design resources, laws and regulations, and references for the implementation of gender. Monday night's Queensbury Board of Education meeting was moved to the elementary school cafeteria in anticipation of the large crowd that turned out, expecting discussion regarding the issue of tran students' use of boys or girls' locker and bathrooms. Rule contradicts bathroom laws At least 11 states have adopted laws barring transgender girls and women from using girls' and women's bathrooms at public schools.
School districts and educational designers are completely rethinking the architecture of bathrooms. On September 23, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom approved a new law that would require every private and public school, including county offices of education and charter schools, to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom on campuses on or prior to July 1, 2026.
