Lgbt Persuasive Speech

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Summer Kealoha I'm coming out! We cannot keep quiet and we cannot ignore the matter at hand any longer, the voices of the LGBTQ (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgenders and Question/Queers) community need to be heard! Our friends of the LGBTQ community, are being treated unfairly. Many have suffered the pain of being ridiculed, while others, like Matthew Shepard, the 22-year-old victim of a 1998 hate crime, or the 102 people shot in an Orlando nightclub, have experienced violent acts of hate. A family member of mine was not accepted for who she was by her own mother. A friend of mine, raped because he was too feminine, afraid to go to the police because of his sexual orientation. A co-worker of mine endures taunting, dirty looks and snarky …show more content…

"With Liberty and Justice for all" as it states in the pledge of allegiance. Often "for all" means for some or just for those of privilege and justice is not served to the underprivileged or the flawed. It wasn't until 2 years ago, 2015, that same-sex couples could marry in some states. Transgender individuals can join the military as of 2016, yet there is still an issue with bathrooms and gender identity. For public safety, a few states have refused to allow transgenders to use the bathroom that is specific to the gender they identify with. If a Transgender female wants to use the women's bathroom, why deny her? She is most certainly safer in the women's bathroom than she would be in the men's bathroom. It would be like throwing her into the lion's den. As goes for a transgender male, if a male walk into a women's bathroom it is sure to cause chaos and may even get said male arrested. Speaking from experience, most of the time one cannot tell if another is a transgender. Why punish people for being who they truly are? Why punish them for accepting themselves and being comfortable in their own skin? It is like telling a child not to dream because dreams do not come true. It takes a wicked kind of soul to make people wait for justice or blatantly deny justice to

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