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.
The American Family Association (AFA) has listed down 10 cases of crimes targeting girls to show the danger to women and children presented by Target’s transgender bathroom policy. On Thursday, AFA president Tim Wildmon released a statement highlighting the growing evidence of the danger brought about by Target’s policy to let men use women’s restrooms and dressing rooms in its outlets. While Target has justified its decision to implement the transgender bathroom policy to make everyone feel welcome, Wildmon insists that the rule only gives sexual predators access to victims, The Christian Post relays. “Clearly, Target 's dangerous policy poses a threat to wives and daughters,” said Wildmon.
Another way such conflicts could be solved is by violating the right that effects the least number of people. As in make the ruling based upon making the least damage to a certain group or people. Such in the example of LGBTQ students using different washrooms, I believe a person should use the washroom based on biological sex and not gender identity as doing otherwise could endanger other people in a very private
Walking through the hallways at school you have the opportunity to see all different kinds of diversity. People of all different races, genders, and religions surround you everyday. Being a part of the community and being a good citizen means including and accepting the people around you. And not treating them any differently than you would want to be treated yourself. Loretta Lynch’s speech, “Address Announcing Complaint Against North Carolina et al re Transgender Law” uses pathos and ethos to advocate for the transgender community to allow them to use the gendered bathroom they are comfortable in.
For the past year society's standards of homosexuals has changed dramatically, last summer gay marriage has been legalized in all 50 states in the us. Now sympathizers of transgender are trying to advocate for bathroom changes for transgender, these people are demanding equal rights to bathrooms that they associate with. I personally find this outrageous and immoral. The concept is very ludicrous, why are we allowing people to choose their gender? It’s ridiculous, I personally believe or would like to think that all children were raised as one gender, and that their parents educated them on the simple concept of where to use the restrooms.
Do you shop at Target? Do you use their bathrooms? Should transgendered humans be allowed to use whichever one fits their identity at that exact moment? Well this might be a question you don’t sit and ponder about, but in the past 4 weeks, this conversation has been the hype all over the United States. Male, Female, or even both, I personally don’t care which bathroom you use.
In Gavin Grimm’s case, transgenders claim they have the rights to use whatever restroom they personally identify with. However, in reality and concordance with biological truths, they are false. In Proverbs 18:2, the Bible says, “Fools have no interest in understanding, they only want to air their own opinions” (New Living Translation). According to a Biblical definition of a fool, transgenders have claimed to be wise, but in reality they have become fools.
The Stonewall Riots are said to mark the beginning of the modern LGBT rights movement, and it was largely initiated by transgender women of color. Over the next few decades, legislation would be enacted to aid the cause for equality. By 1977, trans athletes could play on the teams of their gender identities, and by 1993 anti-discrimination laws were extended to transpeople in Minnesota. In the 21st century alone, transpeople were getting invited to the White House, playing in college sports, and serving as judges, all without having to hide who they were (“Milestones in the American Transgender Movement”). Hardships are still all too common, unfortunately, but much progress has been made nonetheless, and the fight continues to this
Recent controversies over the merits of Title IX draw attention to how the shift in social support or opposition influences the type of legislation that policymakers pass. Title IX became federal law in 1972 and prohibits federally funded “educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on sex” (Title IX, 1972). In 2011, the Obama Administration interpreted this law to apply to the right of transgender students in school to use bathrooms and gym lockers that match their gender identities. Initially, the battle of transgenders’ rights was a social matter; however, when transgender students in grades K-12 begin to experience the repercussions of the ongoing civil rights issue, educational justice and civil rights
The main focus of this journal article is how transgender prisoners are mentally and physically denied the right to pass as women in a prison meant solely for men. Jenness and Fenstermaker (2014) state that these transgender inmates have to be definite in their femininity so as to receive a form of ‘recognition’ and ‘belonging’ of their chosen gender, and even then it is difficult as they are in a men’s prison and are therefore understood to be as ‘male’. This immediately serves as a Human Right’s concern, as even prisoners have the right and privilege to be whomsoever they want to be. Jenness and Fenstermaker (2014) argue that although every human possess that right, transgender prisoners being sexually assaulted is 13 times more likely than
Those who argue that transgender Americans are abnormal, unfit for workplaces and a disgrace for families do so in an effort to block their civil rights in the workplace, in public places, and in health care. They see transgender people as ones to be pitied and shunned. In this environment; transitioning on the job is career suicide, medical treatments and surgery to bring a person’s body with that person’s gender identity is available only to a few who pay out of pocket. Coming out of the closet often means living as a deviant. Being transgender today remains unfairly and needlessly hard.
I believe that people should use the bathroom that they identify for because people are being treated unfairly. In addition, people won 't feel left out in any of their classes if they are being treated as the gender they are identified for. Body paragraph 1: I believe that transgender people should be treated evenly and should be allowed in restrooms they identify for. For
Allowing a transgender student to play sports with the gender they identify with may open them up to rape, molestation, and injury and so they should not be granted this fundamental right. This point is similar to another reason as to why transgenders should also not be granted fundamental rights- it allows certain individuals to claim they are transgender so they may physically harm those in gender specific areas. Public bathrooms or locker rooms are designed for either females or males in order to keep the rate of rape and molestation down between the genders. Suppose a man or woman enters a gender specific facility that is opposite their own and causes harm to you or one of your loved ones. Justice would not be entirely served against that person because they can simply state the claim “I am a Transgender”.
Research Question Should children be allowed to transition to any gender they identify with? Research Conversation The LGBTQ community, more specifically the transgender community, has become increasingly visible by our younger generations of adults, teens and children. Studies had shown that by state, the percentage of transgender adults are between 0.3 to 0.8 percent and are very similar to the percentage of transgender teenages which are between 0.5 and 1.5 percent. Unfortunately, there has not been enough research done on child gender identity due to the multitude of challenges: one of which, the parents much fill in the test of their interpretation of their children.
As of recent years, there has been plenty of controversy over whether people should be allowed to use the public facilities as their gender identity as opposed to their anatomical assigned sex. In May, former President Barack Obama and his colleagues wrote a document to all
