The Equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment gave the right of equal protection under the law to every citizen regardless of their age, gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. As of June 2015 same sex marriage is legal. During this time and age gender walls have broken down. Men do what females do and Females can do what men do, but one thing still separate us. The most universally form of gender separation are bathrooms. The male bathrooms have the sign of a person and the women bathroom has a person wearing a dress, but none for transgender people. The way things are now are because of norms that have been since anyone can remember. When women began to enter the work force the bathrooms were redesigned to fit the “weaker body of the working woman”.(Bazelon, Emily) The bathrooms for women were intended to be a resting place for women, while away from home. Women were seen to be weak and prone to fainting. At the end of last year Houston had a voting for broad equal rights ordinance.It stated that there would be no discrimination against any citizen according to gender, age, race, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Voters rejected the idea with tee shirts and TV ads focusing on the voter biggest fears. (Bazelon, Emily)

 Schools have adapted to the change on how we call and recognize transgender students but have yet to treating them as what they want/are. The main desire of solution is for everyone to accommodate them. To learn to accept what they did not before. A transgender 12 year old says that she is allowed to shower with her other girl classmates, and do not feel weird when she walks in the locker room. Activists, however, have recognized the accommodation as a distinction between normal and the other. (Bazelon, Emily) They believe there is a norm and someone comes along and asks to change that norm; to accommodate them. That is not the only way to look at the word accommodating. There are time were to accommodate means “two way street”. (Bazelon, Emily) We use this method every day, for example, relationships.We give up something, the other party gives up something, so that we can live peacefully together.  I believe that separation is not based on feeling or wants, but proof. Bathrooms are based on the parts off a person not on the mind. A basic human want is to have a sense that you belong.

BAZELON, EMILY. “Making Bathrooms More Accommodating.” New York Times Magazine. 17 November 2015. Web. 2 January 2016.