A brief exercise in currere and bathroom bills
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2018, 2018 Curriculum and Pedagogy Group. North Carolina voted into law legislation known as the Privacy Facilities and Security Act, commonly known as HB2 or the anti-transgender bathroom bill. We use Pinars (1975a, 1975b, 2012) currere methodology as a brief exercise in deconstructing this bathroom bill and others similar to it. In this short piece, we go through each moment: the regressive, progressive, analytical, and synthetical. Historical, social, and biological aspects of the bill are discussed and critically analyzed to outline a pathway to a synthetical moment that includes cultural reconceptualization, social justice, and equality for disenfranchised groups such as transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming people.