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    California bill would require gender-neutral bathrooms in schools

    Benjamin Kennedy, a PhD student in education at UC San Diego, remembers what it was like to attend school in California as a transgender student. From kindergarten to his senior year of high school, Kennedy said he experienced bullying and physical assault when trying to use the bathrooms that aligned with his gender identity. In 2021, Kennedy joined a state committee of high school students, ...
    by Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times Mar 28, 2023 4 minutes
    Signs are poseted outside the Santee High School's gender neutral restrooms at their campus in Los Angeles, California on May 4, 2016.

    Benjamin Kennedy, a PhD student in education at UC San Diego, remembers what it was like to attend school in California as a transgender student.

    From kindergarten to his senior year of high school, Kennedy said he experienced bullying and physical assault when trying to use the bathrooms that aligned with his gender identity.

    In 2021, Kennedy joined a state committee of high school students, parents, advocates and experts that explored how to expand gender-inclusive bathrooms on campuses.

    "Trans people are not a monolith," Kennedy said. "But often our experiences of discrimination and harassment are pretty consistent across the board."

    In the committee,

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