Transgender Target Bathrooms

“Is it a boy or a girl?” When a baby is born, that is the number one question everyone wants to know. What would happen if a kid grew up not wanting to be the gender they were assigned at birth? Gender and sexuality are two separate categories. Someone’s gender is what they identify as, whether it be boy, girl, or other. Someone’s sexuality can be defined as the biological differences they have. However, what may be between one’s legs does not clarify their gender, and today more and more people are speaking up about it. The transgender community has made great advances in recent years, but they still face the harshness of society in every day of their lives. From being bullied as youths to being targeted for using the bathroom, transgender …show more content…
The Target bathroom ordeal caused an uproar and had many people boycott the store just because bathrooms became transgender friendly. People fear that inappropriate perverts will take advantage of the transgender bathrooms to spy on other people. However, if someone were to enter a bathroom of another gender to cause harm, what would stop them from entering any bathroom, whether gender-restrictive or not? Using the wrong bathroom can be very embarrassing and uncomfortable, and that’s exactly what a transgender person feels like when they are forced to use a bathroom that does not match their gender. Being denied the right to use the proper bathroom is just one of the many difficulties transgender people face in everyday life. They need to hide who they are or else other people might be scared. When people get scared, they can get …show more content…
Regardless of where they are, transgender people are attacked and many of them live silently in fear. They are targeted on the streets and are beat up and murdered. In other countries, such as Malaysia, trans people are arrested on the streets just for not dressing the way they “should” dress. They not only have to deal with the hostility of society, they also have to deal with their own insecure feelings of being different. They don’t want to cause harm to people, they just want to be comfortable in their own skin. Yet due to the risk of being harassed, they force themselves to hide who they are and dress the way “society” feels they should dress. These people might not be able to even express themselves at home depending on what their family is like. People commit suicide because they are judged so harshly for being who they are and for not truly feeling like they fit in with the world. Transgender people have also experienced problems by being denied healthcare. Healthcare should be seen as a right, not a privilege. Just because one person expresses themselves differently from another does not mean they should be denied proper health services.
Gender is something that is deeply felt by people, and the government and society should have no business in forcing people to be something they are not. People are attacked and murdered every single day just for the way they want to express