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Restroom Rights for Transgender Safety

The document discusses debates around protecting transgender people from discrimination and allowing them to use public restrooms that match their gender identity. It discusses opponents who argue for separate restrooms and proponents who argue all people should feel safe and comfortable using the facilities. Different views are presented around what makes people feel safe versus increasing discrimination.

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Restroom Rights for Transgender Safety

The document discusses debates around protecting transgender people from discrimination and allowing them to use public restrooms that match their gender identity. It discusses opponents who argue for separate restrooms and proponents who argue all people should feel safe and comfortable using the facilities. Different views are presented around what makes people feel safe versus increasing discrimination.

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Debate Script

In recent years, conversations about LGBTQ equality have increasingly focused on the need to protect
transgender people from discrimination. And one of the places where transgender people routinely
experience harassment, mistreatment, and even violence is in public restrooms. Most states still do not
have laws that protect transgender people from discrimination in public spaces, including when it
comes to being able to use public restrooms—something we all need to do every day. Unfortunately,
opponents of LGBTQ equality have seized on some people’s unfamiliarity with transgender people and
coupled that with people’s concerns about safety in places like restrooms (concerns that have nothing
to do with transgender people). They’ve linked these unrelated issues and created a toxic attack that is
used to deny LGBTQ people protection from discrimination, enact laws that invite abuse and
harassment in public restrooms, and make it virtually impossible for transgender people to go about
their daily lives.

As Vice Ganda had said, “it is good for the government to make a bill that protects the safety of
everyone and LGBTQ community also. Separate restroom for the transgender community. Because
every time there is an LGBTQ presence in a C.R there are people who inevitably feel uncomfortable,
that’s why we have to make another Comfort Room for them. Because it is considered as a big issue,
because when an LGBTQ go in the comfort room of men’s, if the men’s are not comfortable as long as
the LGBTQ too, when LGBTQ go in the comfort room of ladies, if the ladies are not comfortable, then
the LGBTQ is not comfortable too. That’s why they requested separate comfort rooms for LGBTQ. As
human beings, LGBTQ should be accorded the same rights, respect etc. For them to feel safe and
comfortable in using restrooms. The members of the third sex have different opinion, many gays that
they feel insulted when people are laughing at his back every time they go to a male restroom. But for
some ladies, they are uncomfortable every time a LGBTQ person enters their comfort room because
they don't know if they are just pretending to peek. Some Provincial governments wants to denounce
any form of discrimination against anybody based on their sexual orientations and gender identities. In
their ordinance, they state that the “society has slowly come to realize that the abusing and
discriminating against whose gender appear to normative standards”. It is also said that former
President Rodrigo Duterte also has an idea to lessening discrimination against LGBTQ+ people is to
put up “3rd restroom” for them.
They believe that they should be required to put up a separate facility for LGBTQ’s.

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