Transgender Students

These newly formed bathroom bills that many states are adopting have had a multitude of negative effects on transgender students all around the nation. Kristie Seelman, a professor at Georgia State University, conducted a study among students at the college published in the “Journal of Homosexuality”. In her study, Seelman surveyed the impact of being denied access to restroom facilities among transgender students. Seelman noticed a correlation between transgender students who have been denied accesses to restroom facilities verses students who had not. She found that these individuals were more likely to commit suicide compared to students who had not been denied accesses. Of the people surveyed 60.6 percent of the students said that they attempted suicide when they were not allowed assesses to certain
Many responders of the survey also claimed to develop physical problems like kidney infections because they avoided restrooms (Kutner). North Dakota adopted a bill known as House Bill 1008 that states every locker and shower room within public schools must be occupied by students of the same sex. This in return singles out transgender students considering the bill requires students to use bathrooms that corresponded with their biological sex. Like at Georgia State, the bill would affect transgender students immediately. House Bill 1008 also can lead to a student committing suicide by altering their mental health (Ford). The latest group study conducted found that fifty-nine percent of transgender students had no choice, but to utilize facilities that corresponded with their biological sex rather than their gender identity (Ford). In return, sixty-three percent of these students stayed away from restrooms altogether