They sound like atrocities committed by foreign autocratic regimes, but it’s happening right here in America: “teens forced to strip, harassed, and banned from bathrooms.” A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses American schools of systematically violating the human rights of trans teens all over the country.
The report cites specific examples, and they are chilling. In one, a trans girl in Texas was forced to strip in the boys’ locker room in front of a bunch of other male students. She had already been assaulted once when the school made her do this.
A mother described how the school forced her son into a girls’ bathroom. After he spoke about contemplating suicide, she moved him to a school that recognized his gender. Many people spoke about the negative health consequences of avoiding bathrooms altogether, which is what cruel bathroom bans force trans people to do.
As a result: infection, dehydration, urination tract and kidney problems. And that’s to say nothing of the mental health issues.
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The report also makes an important observation: not all students want to use gender-segregated facilities. Many are non-binary, or genderqueer, or whatever term you want to use for someone who identifies as neither male nor female. Maybe if schools stopped gender-segregating and spying down students’ pants, we wouldn’t have so many problems.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
No, it’s deplorable to arrest teens and label them sex offenders for life for sexting one another then turn around and force them to undress in front of the opposite sex in school locker rooms.
Masc Pride
Good Lord, this article was a confusing read. The terms transgirl or transson are really helpful when it comes to making these complicated issues much clearer. And is “forced to strip in the boys’ locker room” just a really melodramatic way to say the person was simply instructed to change in the room that matches their anatomy? Or was this person literally made to strip in front of everyone as some sort of punishment? Two entirely different situations.
NateOcean
@Masc Pride: yep. The article’s author so botched up the genders and pronouns it’s impossible to tell what’s going on.
Jack Meoff
@Masc Pride: @NateOcean: Glad you both thought it was all a bit of a botch up too. I thought I was missing some point or something
ErikO
They’re overly sensitive delicate special needs kids. My bad, calling trans kids special needs is an insult to actual special needs kids.