“Grimm never meant to become a public figure. He only wanted to use the school restroom that corresponded with his gender. But in the past year, Grimm has become the face of one of the country’s most polarizing issues ― whether or not transgender students should be allowed to use the correct bathrooms and locker rooms.” Read the full article in The Huffington Post … [Read more...]

“It was 1997. I was five. That’s when I first had to make the decision on which bathroom to use. I was in gym class, with a basketball between my feet, when suddenly nature was calling. In fact, she was banging at the door. Normally I would have used the single stall bathroom in the kindergarten classroom, but since it was gym class, the obvious choice was to use the toilets attached to the gym. For this reason, I had a difficult decision to make.” Read the full article in The Huffington Post … [Read more...]

“Community groups also provide places where queer and GNC youth of color don’t have to mute some of their identities to express others, a trade-off common in dominant “LGBT-accepting” spheres where white people—especially nontrans people—are normalized and anybody not part of these categories is erased. In physical and digital communities alike, we are now in a moment where bathroom choice stirred viral hashtags, and the New York Times covered Gavin Grimm’s U.S. Supreme Court case denial, but the fact that at least seven trans women of color … [Read more...]

“Because of the way the lived biological realities of intersex people contradict our traditional understanding of gender and physiology, the intersex community is poised to throw a wrench in the argument that facilities should be segregated according to "biological" sex rather than gender identity.” Read the full article in NBC News … [Read more...]

AMY GOODMAN: And what do you say to other young transgender people—first of all, I mean, the Supreme Court, I think there might have been a mixed message that they ruled against you. That hasn’t been the case at this point. There hasn’t been a ruling. What do you say to others to give them hope? GAVIN GRIMM: I would say that the fight is not over. This doesn’t mean we’re at the end of the road. It’s a detour, and that’s all it is. We have faced many detours in this process. It’s certainly been a fairly circuitous process. But it’s not over. … [Read more...]

The National Student Council (NSC) is a GLSEN-sponsored youth leadership and engagement program. It is open to all youth currently enrolled in high school in the United States. Members of the National Student Council dedicate their time, passion, and commitment to the mission of LGBTQ-inclusive schools while elevating the voices of marginalized groups within the LGBTQ community, including (but not limited to) youth of color, youth in rural communities, and transgender and gender nonconforming youth. Curious about what being part of the … [Read more...]

“The new law, by Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, requires businesses, government buildings and other public places to make single-stall bathrooms open to all genders, instead of one for men and another for women. The requirement would become part of code enforcement inspections and does not affect multi-stall restrooms.” Read the full article in the San Francisco Chronicle … [Read more...]

“Though litigation and policies surrounding the use of restrooms by transgender people have been brewing for a couple years, it remains somewhat shocking to see that the bathroom has become the center of debate around the civil rights of trans Americans—let alone children. "I don't understand why the bathroom is such an issue," Charlie, a 13-year-old trans girl, says. "You've been peeing with trans people for years. We go to the bathroom to do exactly what everyone else does. It's that simple." Read the full article in Broadly. … [Read more...]