Strive for Gender Neutral Bathrooms The recent hot debate in our society focuses on the new controversial policy for public bathrooms to be identified as gender neutral. People who identify as a gender other than their biological sex are allowed to use the bathroom based on how they identify themselves. Elizabeth Vliet, is a current physician, has acquired specialized training from Johns Hopkins Sexual Medicine Consultation team, and provides her stance about the gender neutral bathroom policy will promote the increase of danger, especially for women. Vliet has treated numerous patients over the years regarding sex and gender issues.
Suppose that a man is sitting in a McDonalds and his 8-year-old daughter needs to use the restroom. Assuming that she can handle herself he lets her go, as she is walking to the restroom a 40 something year old potbellied man in a pink dress also starts walking towards the female restroom. Now if he gets up to stop this man he could be fined and in certain instances be arrested. Because of Title IX (9), if someone ‘identifies’ as a certain gender they can use the restroom that they identify as. This has risen major concerns around the country.
When discussing gender-neutral bathrooms, Laik references the copious amount of search results with the keywords “Transgender Teens, Bathrooms, Sexual Assault Risk, Higher Rates” in order to make the point to Jill that having bathrooms that they feel comfortable in is a necessity (Fischer). Jill analyzes the issue through the lens of her cisgender privilege, while Laik opens up another perspective by using the articles as evidence to prove to Jill that non-binary people are more unsafe in bathrooms. Another example of Fischer utilizing logos is when Laik explains how difficult it is to navigate life outside of what is typically accepted by society: “Like, if gender was a choice I would stick with the gender I was assigned at birth” (Fischer). Throughout their argument, Jill argues that “[t]he LGBTQ community needs to come up with better words than they/them. Find words that don’t already have meaning” (Fischer).
George Jenkins High School is known for their dreadful football team but mainly their revolting bathrooms. High School presents many struggles for teenagers. One of these struggles is prominent in the lives of all who appreciates going to the bathroom with cockroach’s crawling up your leg and urine all over the floor. Nobody in high school seems to understand simple etiquette and manners when using a bathroom. The ideals are often ignored and overlooked for the sake of getting to class on time.
Peter Baldwin, “Restrooms in American Cities,” Journal of Social History, no. 2: (July 2014) 264, accessed October 29, 2017 http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&sid=11ed77aa-0c43-42ff-ac05-b202896ae195%40sessionmgr4010 Baldwin reports on the frustrated ambitions in which a relationship between the public authority and private body is established; a relationship that promotes privacy, and encourages personal care. The people of America badly needed a place to clean up. However, the country had no public bathrooms, otherwise known as “comfort rooms”. Baldwin then discusses how municipal governments even in the largest cities hesitated to build more than a few comfort stations because of the high cost of construction and maintenance. Comfort stations proved unsuccessful in competing with department stores, hotels and other privately owned alternatives.
Visualize your daughter, mother, friend, or even yourself, being dismissed as being a leader and making change all because you're a woman and you aren’t supposed to lead, you're supposed to follow. This is a reality women live in every single day, they’re not allowed to voice their opinion or even have one when it comes to leadership, sexual desires, or women's house roles. Society views and forces women to be housewives, whose goal in life is to be a mother and care for their children, they cannot have sexual desires only men are allowed to have any, and they are to never voice their opinion if it goes against a man. In the novel, Like Water for Chocolate the female characters challenge the gender norms and expectations that are forced on
Grose Jessica, “Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier,” it is a New Republic magazine that was published in 2013. In her article, she argues that the males in our lives freshly started catching on more of the childcare, cooking, and cleaning. But, it shows unfair advantage on women. Grose starts building her credibility such as (personal facts, reputable sources, citing convincing facts, statistics) by using Aristotelian argument using emotional appeals and logical appeals; however, at the end of the article, her trying to appeal the readers’ emotions diminish her credibility and conclusively, her argument. In her article, Grose first build the status by exemplify a certain part of house-cleaning with her spouse after being closed in during Hurricane Sandy, and then she demonstrates some outlines with uneven division of work and cleaning the house.
Canadians take pride in their health care system; however, most Canadians are unaware of the disparities that exist for transgender persons within health care. Being ridiculed, denied care, or treated unjustly because of a self-identification as transgender goes against the core values of the nursing profession (Canadian Nurses Association, 2009); despite this, ten percent of transgender participants in the Ontario Trans PULSE survey reported that they had experienced these demonstrations of prejudice when accessing emergency room services. This statistic may be lower than the reality due to transgender persons frequently avoiding the health care system (Bauer & Scheim, 2015). According to the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) Code of Ethics (2009) nursing staff are expected to provide, “safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care” (p. 3); however, due to lack of policies and lack of education nursing staff and physicians are detrimentally adding to the stressors of transgender life.
I have to walk to Timbuktu just to relieve myself! And I can 't use one of the handy bikes. Picture that, Mr. Harrison. My uniform, skirt below the knees and my heels. And simple necklace pearls.
Why does the bathroom have such a negative stigma in this world? It’s a place where people block themselves from the outside world and contemplate life. It’s a place that we consider as one of the dirtiest places, yet we clean ourselves there. It’s a home in which I can cherish and understand myself. To me . . .
As an aspiring OB/GYN, a male OB/GYN would be getting paid 14% more than I would for the same occupation, which I find is upsetting, if i'm doing the same work as my male counterpart on the job I want the same compensation. There are a magnitude of women all over the world who does just or more amount work and put in the same hardships and passion just like the men in the this world. In the future and with the right resources I hope to be more part of the Gender Equality/Feminist/Egalitarian movement. Feminist and or Egalitarian is one of the words I want to be able to use in future when I am describing myself.
While most colored people will be satisfied with most basic shabby clothing; basic housing accommodation with no kitchen, no bathroom, and no toilet; most non-blacks will show concern when these facilities are absent. Most non-blacks think beyond mere basics in life. It is normal and very common in Ghana of the year 2016 for example, for a whole township of 200 houses with 2000 people sharing one toilet facility for males and one for females. Besides this public facility, some citizens comfortably go to toilet haphazardly in gutters and under trees. Open defecation is common in all cities and towns in most black African countries.
Gender is it a concept or is it made apparent by our DNA when you are born or does it change as you grow older? Often gender is something that society defines at birth. According to society certain gender roles are pre established when we are born. The majority of society believes that if you are born to a specific gender you should adhere to the gender roles while other people believe that instead we may be born to a gender but it does not always decide if you are that gender. Science has proven that just because you are born a male or female does not mean that you mentally see yourself as that gender.
Gender neutral bathrooms will always be a topic of discussion in everyone lives, however the emotional and economic toll the restrooms would have on others could change someone’s life for the worse. If transgender male and females used their biological corresponding gender facilities, we could lessen those tolls to a minimum. The IOC has tried effortlessly to expand the opportunities for transgender athletes, but just reducing the amount of hormones in the athlete cannot change that they will always have an advantage over non-transgender competitors. One may see the tenacity and the empowerment of transgender movements unnecessary and annoying, but hopefully in future, everyone will see that these peoples stories should inspire others to stand up for what they believe
When the choice is yours, what do you read, listen to, or watch? (50 word limit) I watch The Walking Dead during my free time because of all the intriguing drama and life lessons it communicates. I also enjoy listening and singing along to hip hop, R&B, and rap music such as Joey Bada$$ and H.E.R. in the shower and throughout the day.
