Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

Summer 2025

Abstract

Ohio’s recent “bathroom bill,” SB-104, is unique in mandating bathroom usage in all schools and colleges while placing the burden of compliance on institutions. This study explores how LGBTQ college students in Ohio understand and respond to SB-104 and how colleges, positioned as intermediaries between students and the law, shape those responses. To investigate this, I am distributing an online survey to LGBTQ students at a group of five private liberal arts colleges in Ohio. I aim to analyze the responses of approximately 10 respondents from each institution through a legal and relational consciousness theoretical foundation to identify preliminary patterns across colleges, demographics, and general thinking. After completion, I plan to share my findings with student affinity groups at Ohio colleges. Through this project, I aim to support and reshape conversations about the relationships between institutional authorities and their socially marginalized students in a time of uncertain and shifting legislative landscapes.

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