User:PearlNghe/Transgender Restroom

The Transgender restroom started around September 29, 2016, which the people were against transgender people changing their biological sex. People in our society are against transgender people going to the gendered restroom that is not based on their biological sex, they feel the children and women will be in danger. Transgender people started to feel uncomfortable and afraid of people using physical violence to hurt them, many transgender people are avoiding of using the restrooms. The issue of gender-segregated restrooms have gained many attentions from every nation which it has raise many concerns of transgender being treated inequality to safely use the restroom. This lead to cause transgender people not using the public restrooms; Around 2015 to 2016, the state legislature have enacted in country-wide increase in the proposed legislation which has prohibit of accessing to public restrooms based on self-determined gender identity. Between 2013 and 2017, there were 24 states have considered to enacting the laws to restrict accessing to public restrooms based on biological sex.

The issue of transgender restrooms have gained national attentions concerns of the inequality of accessing the restrooms, the law of gender restrooms have discriminated against the individuals who do not follow their own gender binary and reinforce existing gender norms. The lack of gender-inclusive public restrooms in schools and other work place where many transgender individuals have started to drop out from school and there were some of the transgender individuals have started to change jobs. There were result which it's around 1.3 times are the individuals who have been to the situations where they were being denied of accessing school restrooms or work place restrooms which it did lead individuals to suicide.

The Bathroom Laws
In August 2016, the 18 states were California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington banned the discrimination of the public restroom accommodations based on their gender identity and the other four states were Arkansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee have passed the bathroom law that have restricted of accessing to public restrooms or prohibit local jurisdictions of passing the law. There were range of definition to an specific gender sex; There were 16 states have multiple occupied spaces of public restrooms which were separate based on the biological sex, the 13 states have specific chromosomes have taken into accounting like the Washington's Senate Bill and House Bill have permitted the transgender people whose change their gender sex base on their gender identities, and there were 4 states are requiring the gender identity to match with their birth certificates of what public restrooms they should use in.

In March 2016, North Carolina's legislature have passed the House Bill 2 of Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which the law has indicate any individuals may only use public restrooms that correspond by listed sex on their birth certificate. The House Bill 2 in North Carolina have repealed in 2017 which there were several states have legislatures with similar oppressive restroom bill. There were some of the arguments from some of the countries which the argument from the countries feel that this is preventing transgender people from using the public restrooms. The other countries that have against the bathroom laws, they have said that the type of legislative have created the social legal bind for transgender individuals. There is another argument have appeared to be boarded range of gender diversity that have consistent of their gender identity. In the states who have similar bathroom laws have created another law which it is any individuals who do not follow the law is breaking the law of following the social norms based on their gender expression appearance.

The House Bill 2 was created for people to following their own birth certificate sex to be able to access the restroom, but if individuals not following the law and willing to break the law, the individuals are breaking the societal norms have related appearance and can potentially face social backlash that is gender policing and even violence. The transgender people are mostly afraid of the backlash and violence from people if they use the public restrooms because of the issue of the law. When the bathroom laws was existed, most of the men were defending the bathroom law which they feel insecure of the women and children's safety, most of men who defend the bathroom law said "We are protecting OUR women and OUR girls". The society become more cautious of "predatory males" who have sense an opportunity to wear women's clothing to prey on innocent and defenseless women and children in restrooms. But the real victims were women who needed protections is the transgender women.

The increase of the need for additional non-binary which the gender can inclusive public restrooms, there were most of the restrooms have designed to be only men or women but they do have any restrooms that the transgender people can access to. The safety of public restrooms is press social justice which it is very concerning for the LGBTQ community. There were some of the regard suggests which there were gender appearance and conformity of the social gender performance expectations is the key role in the transgender restroom experiences. There is a research that they examining the transgenders people's experience in the public restroom; The research have found the points of the one's gender appearance is dealing with others in public restroom spaces and there is another thing that there were high frequent nature of gender policing when a person have perceived to be violent the appearance norms of accessing the public restrooms. The public restroom spaces, the transgender people have experience some of the violence, abusive, and being denied by the people in the society because of the socially constructed the appearance.

The scale of National Transgender Discrimination Survey was being found higher numbers of transgender individuals being reported from being denied of the appropriate bathroom laws in schools, work place, and other places; This does lead to them feeling uncomfortable because of the harassment and dismissed from their employment. There is another survey from this study where the transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in Washington DC, 70% of individuals instantly being denied, verbal harassments, and physical assault of accessing public restroom. In San Francisco, around 63% have showed there were less denial of accessing public restrooms and least harassment of using public restrooms.

The Effects That The Transgender People Are Facing
In our society, the society have constructed gender norms of having sex-segregated restrooms to be rooted in the discourse that women are inherently vulnerable and the fear of men pretending to be a woman to seek women and children which the society were afraid the women and children will be harm. The society is afraid that individuals who are pretending to be woman will use any gender conforming techniques to receive improve their public restroom experiences like holding a purse, making breasts more visible, or wearing a prominent prosthetic penis to have more conformity in gender performance. This does cause the society not to trust the people who are transgender because they are afraid the women and children safety if a transgender individual dress up as a woman. There were some other arguments were mainly sex-segregated the public restrooms to include the notion which women were being taught to value privacy and should maintain the "mystery" of their sexuality, bodies, and bodily functions.

In Virginia, transgender people were avoiding health care services due to the lack of appropriate bathroom facilities but there were some of the individuals who become ill because of avoiding restrooms or choosing to wait which it can cause an kidney infections or gastrointestinal problems. The percentage of individuals receiving kidney infections and dehydration because of avoidance of using public restrooms is around 54% from Herman's study. In 2002, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission receive the report that nearly 50% of transgender individuals were being harass or assaulted in public restrooms.

There is another study which the data was being use from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, all 2,325 responders are transgender individuals who are currently or were previously attend to college or university. The researchers have found on the survey that one-third of the transgender adults had suffered harassments, bullying, physical violence, or sexual assaulted by other students. Around 13.8% of transgender individuals have face similarly way like other transgender individuals but they were victimized by college faculty or staff and the 25% of other individuals were being denied of accessing to public restrooms or other public facilities due to being transgender or gender non-conforming. The threats were gone out of hand because of the gender policing which it have been a pervasive problem of denying of accessing public restrooms and other facilities which it had lead to lifetime suicide attempts which it did control the interpersonal victimization and other factors. The experiences the individuals have experiences were leading to negatively impacts on mental health, self-perceptions, physical health complication, and emotion which it has arise from the lack of accessing the public restrooms.

The Transgender men and women were being danger of prosecution; On May 2016, there was reports of the Center of American Progress and the Movement Advancement Project which it had show that the transgender people were being overrepresented of time spending in prison because the population were accused of being predators but the population is in great danger of assault. Using the restrooms were being assigned at birth and risk being assaulted immediately by the people who notice that the individual is transgender to anyone in or around the restrooms or using the restroom that matches their gender and risking themselves to get arrest and assault in jail or prison.

There were some supporters who support the bathroom laws which it did effected the people who believe there were fear of male stalkers who claim to be transgender women to be able to harass children and women in restrooms. The people have started to express their vitriol and revulsion towards transgender people, they have started to giving nicknames that have describe transgender people as "sexual predators", "voyeurs", and "pedophiles". People in our society sees transgender people as dangerous which it does effect the transgender people to feel victimize, they receive many of verbal harassment and physical assaults from people when they were trying to use public restrooms. They have received physically assaulted in public restrooms which they receive many bruises, broken bones, or worse. Transgender people are afraid to be harass and receiving many physical violence when they use the public restrooms which it can lead to mental health that they will receive from everything they have face.

Transgender people wanted to be safe but they do not feel safe of using the restrooms, they avoid of using the restrooms which it has cause some health problems includes urinary tracts or kidney infections, stool impaction, and hemorrhoids. Though there were some of the transgender people who have abstain of drinking to avoid using the restrooms.

The Issue About The Bathroom Law
When the law was created by North Carolina, the meaning behind the bathroom law, North Carolina was letting everyone know the message that the transgender people are not welcome to any places like workplaces, schools, reinforcing the stigma, bias, and fear of fueling discrimination against transgender people. They have gender identity that does not match their birth certificate, the gender identity is referring an internal sense of being male, female, or outside of these two categories. There was representative studies of transgender people who are rare, the estimate that have approximately 700,000 adults are transgender.

In 2005, there were 500 companies have prohibited discrimination of gender identity, it went up to 15 in 2002. There were nineteen states and the district of Columbia have include gender identity in employment to become more non-discrimination laws. The bathroom law have effected transgender individuals to become more stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms, post traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and suicide. These have increased which it did effected most of the individuals who are facing bullying, verbal harassment, sexual assault, and non-sexual violence. It has cause many things on transgender individuals who are dealing with this kind of situations in our society. Around 2008 - 2009, there is U.S. National Transgender Discrimination survey have showed 28% of transgender adults have experienced harassments, 19% have reported that they have were being refused to be care, and 28% have postponed care because of the discrimination.

In the school districts, many of the transgender students have face the same thing of what the transgender adults have face in the society. Many parents have reported where they began to threatened to pull their own children out of the school if a transgender student are allowed to use the restroom which it is appropriate to their gender. On 2014, the national poll conducted by CBS, 59% of Americans have thought transgender children should use the restroom and locker rooms base on their birth sex, not their gender identity.

In 1974, Feinman have asked some of the undergraduate sociology students who have indicate their level of disapproval of child cross gender behavior. He have discovered when a boy wears girl's clothing, the boy was being violated which it has viewed more negatively than girls' and the male participants have show more negative attitudes. The rates have show the disapproval were moderate with an overall average of 37.89 on the scale from 10 to 70 were the highest disapproval in Feinman's study. The study that Feinman have research on, have shown that the gender role-violating boys are judgments more harshly because their role were higher social prestige. This study have show the behaviors from men who will react right away when they see a transgender individual who wears woman clothing, the reaction from men were very high than women's. Men's reaction were very harsh and willing to judge right away which it will lead to harassments and physical violence.

The explanation from the study's have show more negative attitudes towards gender-atypical boys who have predicted that either male and female who have completely outgrow their gender atypicality when they grow older, but she believes boys will be much higher risk of becoming homosexual adults. There is another study with a researcher McCreary's who have found that women and girls have deviate from gender roles who were less likely to be homosexual. This studies have show that there were higher risk for a person who is transgender and afraid to face something they will get physical hurt.

The attitudes the transgender children and adolescent have receive from the nation's school climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. More than 8,500 have self-identified LGBTQ students who are between age of 13 to 20 from all over the U.S. states were questioning about the comment they heard someone who is not acting "masculine" or "feminine". The results have show 61% of students have heard many negative remarks about gender expression frequently, 44% individuals have felt unsafe at school, and 12% were physically assaulted in the past year because of their gender expression. It just not other students who harass, judge, and using negative remarks, there were also school staffs who have tolerate and even perpetrated transgender individuals. 57% of students have reported hearing negative remarks about gender expression from teachers and other staffs, 11% of school personnel intervened every time when negative remarks about gender expression were being made in their presence that compares to 34% other students who uses sexist languages, 55% racist language being use.60% of students uses verbally or physically attacked individuals who did not reported the incident to the school, and the 37% of other individuals who made an report by saying teachers and other staffs did nothing.

Reflective Essay
I learned many things of how to use the Wikipedia like knowing how to cite the article or book from something we found from the article or book, knowing how to annotated bibliography, etc.. It did help me understand how to use Wikipedia and knowing what to do on Wikipedia. I just brain storm of what caught my attention and what did the LGBTQ community's issues with the society, I choice Transgender people and their public restrooms issues because I feel the Transgender individuals have to face many problems when they tried to use the restrooms in any places like work places, schools, etc.. It helps me focus on finding many articles that discuss about the Bathroom laws and what has effected Transgender individuals when the Bathroom laws have existed in other countries.

I feel I need to edit some parts of my written project which it does help me to see what to add and what to remove from my written project on the Wikipedia. It also helps me to take notes of what caught my attention which it is important to put in my written project to discuss the problem of the Bathroom laws in our society. The article does compare a little with our previous situation, which I feel there were some of the people who are not okay with transgender woman going in women restroom because of the safety of women and children in the women restrooms though there were most of the people who accepts and understand that transgender women are also human and they should be treated with respect.

The peer review does help a little, my peer told me to change some parts and add some parts in the article, which I'm editing on my written project to help readers to understand of what I was trying to say. There were some parts where the peer have told me to remove some of the sentences because of the repeats but it is very difficult for me to not to use the repeated words over and over again. It is not easy to just not to add the repeat words or sentences in my written project. I did tried my best to not to type repeat with words when I'm writing about the topic I wanted to discuss through my written project. I have not receive any feedback from other Wikipedia editors which I'm not sure if other Wikipedia editors have forgotten to give feedbacks on other Wikipedia editors about their written project.

I learned many things like doing the activities on Wikipedia which it helps me to see what is okay and what is not okay on the Wikipedia although there were some of the activities help me to see some technic of how to cite and other things on Wikipedia which I was surprise that I did not know about it when I was writing on my written project. The Wikipedia assignments and other assignments I have done were helpful, I remember in the beginning of the learning of Wikipedia, I kind of understand some parts on the Wikipedia but I did not understand half of the technic works on the Wikipedia. I have to ask my classmates to help me to understand how things works on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia can improve by giving out many assignments and activities that help others to understand about the Wikipedia and how it works. I feel the Wikipedia is doing a good job on showing how to use Wikipedia. It does help other people who do not understand about the Wikipedia, but the assignments and activities we were assigned help me and other classmates to know what to do on the Wikipedia.

I did contribute some parts of the major equity gap when I'm writing on my written project in the Wikipedia, I feel I'm not the only one who did the topic. There were some of the people who starts to write the same articles on the Wikipedia, it is interesting and discuss the problem of our society. There were some of the challenges the is very difficult to come around when I'm contributing. It hard for me to find some of the information from the articles I have found and try to put it in my words then cite the articles in the sentences. The Wikipedia assignments have me understand most of the parts of how to construct and sharing, it does help others understand of how to do on the Wikipedia. I understand that everyone have their own ways to write in their own words and what were their thoughts about the issues or other topics that they have read through the article and books, they have found.