Give Me A Bathroom Break

What portion of white evangelicals who attend church services weekly or more believe that transgender people should be required to use the public restroom of the gender they were born into?

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PEW RESEARCH CENTER

1. How accurate was your prediction?

2. What most surprised you about this data?

3. What is the big story this data tells?

4. Why do you think that is?

5. What is one consequence of this?

6. Is this good news or bad news?

7. Explain whether you believe transgender people should be required to use the public restroom of the gender they were born into.

8. Do you believe this will be a big issue in the 2016 presidential election?

9. Do you believe that people who don't have an opinion on this issue should be allowed to use public restrooms?

10. I live in North Carolina which recently passed HB2, a bill requiring transgender people to use the public restroom of the gender they were born into. Many people have boycotted my state because of our new law. Do you think that people should boycott states that pass laws they oppose?

11. Is this a big issue in your state, community, or school?

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Learning Extension

Read the Pew article and graphs about this issue.

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Action Extension

Ask ten people the following question or post the question on social media, then share your responses with class.

"If you had to chose, which of the following comes closest to your view? Transgender people should be...

...required to use the public restroom of the gender they were born into.

...allowed to use the public restroom of the gender with which they currently identify."