{"id":34905,"date":"2022-05-26T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=34905"},"modified":"2022-05-26T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T14:14:00","slug":"its-utterly-ridiculous-trans-tulsa-students-react-to-oklahomas-school-bathroom-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2022\/05\/26\/its-utterly-ridiculous-trans-tulsa-students-react-to-oklahomas-school-bathroom-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s utterly ridiculous:\u2019 trans Tulsa students react to Oklahoma\u2019s school bathroom ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A bill to bar transgender students from using the bathroom corresponding with their identity was signed by Governor Kevin Stitt Wednesday.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">StateImpact&#8217;s Robby Korth and KOSU&#8217;s Kateleigh Mills went to Tulsa to talk to a trio of transgender high schoolers on identity and how political conversations about bills like <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oklegislature.gov\/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB615&Session=2200\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senate Bill 615<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would affect them. <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 6px; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/99bc439d-a97e-47bc-823d-e8207f6828ce\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alex, Jaz and Reilly are all high schoolers. StateImpact is only using their first names to protect their identities. They spoke to StateImpact and KOSU in a roughly 45-minute conversation on the day Oklahoma lawmakers<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgou.org\/politics-and-government\/2022-05-20\/gov-stitt-to-consider-transgender-student-bathroom-ban\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">overwhelmingly passed SB 615<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the measure that mandates students use the restroom found on their birth certificate.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The students say they feel erased from the discourse around bathroom bans and other anti-trans legislation. The students say it seems lawmakers are focused on \u201cprotecting\u201d their cisgender peers who simply don\u2019t need protection from them.<\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">StateImpact\u2019s Robby Korth and KOSU&#8217;s Kateleigh Mills produced this story in partnership with Focus: Black Oklahoma. This story is part of the America Amplified initiative using community engagement to inform and strengthen local, regional and national journalism. America Amplified is a public media initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to bar transgender students from using the bathroom corresponding with their identity was signed by Governor Kevin Stitt Wednesday.StateImpact&#8217;s Robby Korth and KOSU&#8217;s Kateleigh Mills went to Tulsa to talk to a trio of transgender high schoolers on identity and how political conversations about bills like Senate Bill 615 would affect them. Alex, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":34906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34912,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905\/revisions\/34912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}