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Poem Analysis: Transgender Bathroom

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Mike Jenerette Jr

Phyllis Gowdy

English 111

06 July 2017
Transgender Bathroom Use The United States has made quality progress in terms of equal rights for the gay and lesbian community, and our society, for the most part, has moved right along with it. However the T in LGBT has been under fire from the Republican Party in recent years. T standing for the Transgender community, the GOP (Grand Only Party\Republican Party) discovered that transgendered personnel wanted to use the restroom based on their gender identity, in contrast to their anatomical assignment. This has left the GOP in a state of unrest as attempts to undue the liberalistic idea have ensued. The transgender/transsexual community has a historical presence that has lasted …show more content…

Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” is not ambiguous about sexual or gender identity at all. There are parts of this long, free thought poem that are overtly homosexual, and parts where he is clearly identifying himself as a female in the story. One legend has it that he was once questioned whether he was homosexual or not. He became very angry at this and said “Can’t you see that I am clearly Inter-sexed. I am neither a man nor a woman.” In other words, he was saying yes, but no. He was gay, he was straight, he was a man, and a woman. The first of many partially successful gender reassignments in the very early twentieth century took place in Denmark, Germany and Russia before the Second World War. A few gender reassignments took place in America, the first taking place in 1952 (Beemyn, n.d.) before our McCarthy era, a time of extreme, and at times, brutal conservatism. Meanwhile, almost immediately following the restructuring and rebuilding of Europe, reassignments continued. Today, around the world, every day, many people are realizing, hopefully with a sense of inner peace, what is wrong. They are discovering they were not born with the anatomy or gender ideologies assigned to them at …show more content…

Even Donald Trump has said the laws being passed are ridiculous and will cause more problems than they seek to solve. This is already being shown to be true, as people who appear to be men have been led out of the women’s restrooms by police, only to discover they are in fact anatomical women. This is a waste of taxpayer money, and a waste of resources (Steinmetz, 2015). What if an actual crime had taken place in the time it took to sexually harass a female for trying to use the bathroom, how would that news story read? There is no actual evidence that transgendered people pose any kind of threat to anyone else using the bathroom, most transgendered people are heterosexual, meaning that a transgendered woman is attracted to men, and vice versa with transgendered men. On the contrary, there are a lot of cases of boys being touched inappropriately touched by cisgendered men, or men that identify as the gender they were born as (Steinmetz, 2015). They are currently no laws that are being pushed into legislation on the federal level by Republicans to prevent this from

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