Should Transgenders Be Allowed In Public Restrooms

Community baths and pools have been utilized since ancient Roman times to promote unity and peace. Allowing a community to join together and reveal their intimate selfs, during their baths, advertised the importance of a safe environment within a society. These ancient community baths can now be viewed as the modern public restroom. Over the past five years, debate over whether transgenders should be allowed in public restrooms has been a topic of concern for the American people. Transgender is a term used to describe individuals who identify a different gender than the one they were born with. Many Americans fear that by allowing these individuals to utilize the public restroom, children and women are at risk of experiencing harassment. If …show more content…
This has not been the first time American states have denied basic human rights to individuals. Around the 1800s and up until today, people of color have been stripped of their basic rights. Before the civil rights movement starting popping up in the 60s, people of color were labeled as “colored” from their white counterparts and not allowed to use the same space as the “whites.” The similarities between both issues are frightening close. In an article written by Doctor Comrade, he states, “…and it 's hard not to see the parallels between minority groups fighting against dominant cultural norms and legal rules that prevent them from having full equality…”() There is still a clear, though no longer in print, rule that allows for this accommodation using the infamous “Separate but equal” used to win the case in Plessy v. Ferguson. Transgenders are currently experiencing the same situation colored people did almost 60 years ago. They are also bound to the decision made in Plessy v. Ferguson, even though it was overturn decades ago. Transgender individuals are free to use any necessity as long as they do not utilize the same facilities as their heterosexual counterparts. The same situation was occurring to people of color in the mid 1900s. Change soon came about when the integration of both races occurred in 1954, where court case Brown V. Board of Education allowed colored students to mingle with white students. This opened up a new view of how colored people can socialize with whites. Allowing the schools to experiment with how whites and colored where going to interact, demonstrated the importance of utilizing schools to conduct a “social experiment.” The same can occur by implementing a third gender-neutral restroom in public schools. It can grant an easier transition for