Transgender Bathroom Laws

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Transgender Bathroom Laws The United States has been determined for its citizens to have equal rights given for every citizen no matter race, skin color, sexual orientation, religion, and gender identity. Although with the United States’s determination, a few complications stand in the way for a certain group of people in order for them to get the rights someone like you and I would have. This group of people, known as transgenders, have recently been targeted for wanting to use the bathroom of their preference. A person like you and I would be able to use the bathroom of their choice with no issue. However, since transgender individuals genitalia do not match with their appearance, a problem arises in weather or not, for example, a transwoman …show more content…
This directive involved transgender students using the public bathrooms in their school, which relates to my paragraph above since both of these situations occurred in North Carolina. Schools who do not agree with this directive being blocked are being threatened to annul the federal assistance they receive from the government. If you look at it closely, it sort of looks like the Courts are blackmailing these schools into blocking transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice by threatening to withdraw funding. If the school does not comply, they can and probably will lose not only money, but other resources that could put the school into trouble and cause harm. North Carolina is a Republican state, just like most other Southern states, so you can see why they are trying to prevent giving this right to transgender individuals. Like I said before, I believe this is mainly out of ignorance and it is leading to transphobia and hate. Because the Courts are intimidating these public institutions, it is putting them at a tough spot of a moral issue of whether or not they should continue allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice and lose money or should they stop allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice and to continue to receive …show more content…
Trump remarked that North Carolina is now paying the price and that there are many problems they are now facing. The President of the United States agreed with the transgender community that they should be able to use the bathroom of their choice. However, Ted Cruz along with other politicians are now skeptical of what Trump said, believing that he agrees men should be able to go to the bathroom with little girls. He thought that men should be able to go into the girls' bathrooms if they want to," Cruz said here to building applause. "Grown adult men -- strangers -- should not be alone in a bathroom with little girls. And that's not conservative. That's not Republican or Democrat. That's basic common sense." It is common sense and I believe that this piece of advice is missing something crucial which is you should not leave your child to go to the bathroom in public by themselves. The transgender community isn’t the only apparent danger against them, but anyone could harm an unattended child in a bathroom. It is a parent’s job to protect their child and always be with them so I don’t see or understand why you would let a child go into a bathroom alone with strangers. You wouldn’t let a child wander a store alone so why would a parent

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