Trans teens face higher sex assault risk when schools restrict bathrooms

Transgender and gender-nonbinary youth are more likely to have experienced sexual assault or harassment if they attend a school that does not permit them to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their general identity, according to a study released Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

“We can’t tell from this study whether restrictive restroom and locker room policies cause sexual assault,” said lead study author Gabriel Murchison of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. “However, at the least, they seem to be a marker for an environment where trans and nonbinary youth are at risk.”

Of the 3,673 trans and nonbinary middle school and high school students surveyed across the United States, 26 percent reported being sexually assaulted in the previous 12 months. Among those who attend schools that restrict their bathroom and locker room access, the percentage jumps to 35 percent.

NBCOUT Those confused people are confusing everyone!

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NBCOUT Get a stand alone single bathroom in every school

NBCOUT I feel like it’s getting easy to make up fake stats

NBCOUT Absolutely bull 💩💩💩💩 I have heard some 💩 sling in my time .... but this is by FAR the largest pile yet

NBCOUT Extreme hatred to not assist these confused individuals- unbelievable cowardice

NBCOUT What a sick and twisted world we live in that a single youth should be sexually assaulted by their peers for simply using the restroom. Sometimes I want to go hide in the swamp and never come out. Let trans youth be free once and for all through communism.

NBCOUT Deuteronomy 22:5 says that man shouldn't wear women's clothing and woman shouldn't wear men's clothing... did the lgbtq community and it's supporters bypass this and just see 'God is Love'

NBCOUT And they’re further victimized by their parents and others who encourage them to continue in that sickness. They deserve to be told the truth.

NBCOUT To solresolve this problem, give them their own damn bathroom so they can stop forcing themselves on other people... But, they wouldn't want that though.

NBCOUT What is non-binary?

NBCOUT I don’t even care enough to look up what non-binary means. You use the bathroom God assigned you. Period

NBCOUT Why are US schools unsafe? Incompetent educators

NBCOUT So many a**holes in the comments. They can read an article about youth being sexually assaulted and make jokes or say they got what they deserved...

NBCOUT Not a real thing

NBCOUT I'm trans and I say it's better to have two or three small, handicap accessible bathrooms that are like 'family style' in some places... Privacy and safety for all, pedophilia is not gender specific

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NBCOUT 1 in 4? I don't know 1 and I live in Portland Oregon.

NBCOUT Meanwhile the risk of sexual assault posed by that group to everyone else goes up by given them their way. Fuck that

NBCOUT It's easy to feel somebody is different if they don't look or act straight, but kids commit suicide to stop the bullying, and the twisted stuff 'straight people' do to them. Let them have their own bathroom!

NBCOUT Thank you liberals for proving that men are better than women

NBCOUT Restrooms

NBCOUT Dont go into the mens room and expect to get away with pecker checking.

NBCOUT yea, well you're talking about a demographic of people politicized and dogmatized to consider not even just 'words', but also even 'silence' to be violence so this 'report' is meaningless to me if you want me to give a shit, stop indulging Post Modern bastardisation of language

NBCOUT By who exactly?

NBCOUT i want my own private bathroom too. , private toilets for everybody !!!!

NBCOUT What the hell is non binary?

NBCOUT And we should always take the word of the mentally ill. Always.

NBCOUT 'Restrictive bathrooms.'

NBCOUT Ok I guess they should rethink that choice or get some must needed mental health.

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