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Western New England University School of Law Digital Commons @ Western New England University School of Law Faculty Scholarship Faculty Publications 2013 Securing Equal Access to Sex-segregated Facilities for Transgender Students Harper Jean Tobin National Center for Transgender Equality J ennifer L. Levi Western New Eng land University Sc hool of Law, jlevi@ Follow this and additional works at : /facschol Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Education Law Commons, and the Sexuality and the Law Commons Recommended Citation Harper Jean Tobin Jennifer Levi, Securing Equal Access to Sex-segregated Facilities for Transgender Students, 28 WIS. J.L. GENDER SOC’Y 301 (2013). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Publications at Digital Commons @ Western New England niversity School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Western New England niversity School of Law. For more information, please contact pnewcombe@. SECURING EQUAL ACCESS TO SEX-SEGREGATED FACILITIES FOR TRANSGENDER STUDENTS Jean Tobin andJenniferLevi* By: Harper ABSTRACT If Title IX is to have any real meaning for transgender students, it must protect a students ability to live and participate in school as a member of the gender with which they identify. This means that students must be permitted to use gender-segregated spaces, including restrooms and locker rooms, consistent with their gender identity, without restriction. Denial of equal access to facilities that correspond to a students gender identity singles out and