Much of the scrutiny and discrimination that transgender people face in college can be attributed with having to choose what gender binary they are going to publicly identify with within the public eye. One major example of this is deciding what bathroom to use in public. Transgender individuals are faced with deciding whether to use a bathroom that coincides with their gender identity or a bathroom that coincides with the sex they were assigned with at birth. When groups are sex-segregated, such as in some university dormitories, transgender people must decide or be forced into a group they no longer identify with, which can negatively impact the transgender person psychologically.
