Summary 1: In a web article for The Washington Post, Marc A. Thiessen covers the issue of protecting transgender people in public facilities. He maintains that people who are transgender should be protected, but that the government is not doing protecting them in a safe manner. The opening statement of the article reads, “Allowing biological men to use women’s restrooms and changing rooms - what could possibly go wrong? Plenty” (Thiessen). This statement immediately shows Thiessen’s awareness of the problems that may be caused by biological men that use women’s restrooms or changing rooms. Thiessen argues that instead of the law allowing any person to enter the gendered-facility of his/her choice, public areas should provide access to single-room bathrooms or changing-rooms that are for transgendered people. This one-person room allows a person to use whichever facility that he/she identifies with, but it also protects women and children from being exposed to someone who falsely claims the identity of a transgender.
Evaluation 1: This source is reliable because based from an American newspaper that is printed daily in Washington D.C. Although it is a website, the article is …show more content…
Dastagir writes about the “imaginary predatory” between transgender men or women and bathrooms. She claims that the issue between transgender people and bathrooms is not the fact that people are not going to the anatomically correct bathroom. Instead, she proposes that the issue is that culture wants people who appear masculine should enter the men’s bathroom, and people that appear feminine should use the women’s bathroom. Dastagir argues that “the bathroom is a bastion of segregation. It’s where we sort people” (Dastagir). She asserts that society expects to see feminine people in bathrooms, and that if a masculine female enters a female-bathroom, she may receive more criticism than she would have received if she went to the men’s
Evaluation 1: This source is reliable because based from an American newspaper that is printed daily in Washington D.C. Although it is a website, the article is …show more content…
Dastagir writes about the “imaginary predatory” between transgender men or women and bathrooms. She claims that the issue between transgender people and bathrooms is not the fact that people are not going to the anatomically correct bathroom. Instead, she proposes that the issue is that culture wants people who appear masculine should enter the men’s bathroom, and people that appear feminine should use the women’s bathroom. Dastagir argues that “the bathroom is a bastion of segregation. It’s where we sort people” (Dastagir). She asserts that society expects to see feminine people in bathrooms, and that if a masculine female enters a female-bathroom, she may receive more criticism than she would have received if she went to the men’s