Abstrak
This research was conducted to investigate public reaction towards the ordinance that allowed transgender people to use bathroom in correspondence to their identified gender. This study implemented purposive sampling to collect the data in the form of comments from comment sections in news articles from Abcnews (abcnews.com), Usatoday (usatoday.com), and Washington Post (washingtonpost.com). The results of the research are analyzed using discourse analysis to examine how the systematical relation of power works in the case of public opinion of the transgender bathroom ordinance. The study shows that there are three different standpoints in the case of bathroom ordinance, they are: the supporter, opposition, and indifferent. It also highlights how heteronormativity as a discourse interpellates people for three different purposes (education, design, and politics) and use these discourses in relation to the transgender bathroom ordinance.
Keywords: gender, transgender, bathroom, sexual predator, heteronormativity, subject and power
