There’s a big issue, especially with tenacious Trump as president. What’s that issue? Transgender students. In a recent article from New York Times, Trump is deciding to get rid of rights of transgender students'. In the article the secretary of education, Ms. DeVos, says that “Ms. DeVos initially resisted signing off on the order and told President Trump that she was uncomfortable with it, according to three Republicans with direct knowledge of the internal discussions” (Peters). For a lot of people it is hard to accept the transgender community for who they are. Transgender rights in schools is not something to discard. It is already difficult for transgender students' to feel secure in schools when they are being harassed and feeling …show more content…
These people believe that by letting transgender students use the restrooms/locker rooms of the sex they identify themselves (according to some student's parents) makes their children feel unsafe and feel as though their rights have been violated. Whereas others say schools should not take action in helping a transgender student because it’s a mental disorder like stated in this article, “‘This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken – it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes’ said Doctor McHugh” (Hopkins). In this article it explains how this doctor finds that being transgender is a mental disorder which is the repercussion of why people are against schools' transgender …show more content…
When not doing anything about making transgender students feel safe, it only makes them cause harm to themselves. There is also the fact that when transgender students use the bathroom/locker room of the sex they identify themselves with makes them feel accepted and not discriminated against. Author Izadid writes, “‘When transgender students are required to use separate facilities, it does not go unnoticed by other students,” Daniel Tilley, the LGBT rights staff attorney for the ACLU of Florida, wrote in a letter to the school board. “Being separated from other students in this way would be damaging to anyone, but it is especially harmful to transgender children’” (Izadid). This is telling people that letting transgender students use the bathroom of their choice has a positive effect. Not letting transgender students use the bathroom of the sex they identify themselves as or making them use a different facility doesn’t go unnoticed by other students. There are many students who believe transgender students should be able to use the bathroom of the sex they identify themselves as; in fact it makes them feel less
When a transgender person uses the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity, it boosts well-being. It is legal to for transgender individuals to use whichever bathroom they feel to be is more beneficial. Many schools and states are trying to appeal this law. When the South Dakota House of Representatives were faced with the option to veto this law they chose to keep the law in place (“South Dakota House”). New York has also reinforced transgender individual’s right to choosing a bathroom (“New York mayor”).
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In paragraph 10, Fraas proclaims, “In another study of transgender K-12 students, 31 percent reported verbal harassment by teachers or staff for their gender. Another 5 percent reported physical assault assault by teachers and 3 percent reported sexual assault…53 percent of those lost to anti-queer hate murders in 2012 were trans women. ” Though Fraas uses statistics for this quote, any parent would feel awe struck by how mistreated these students are in school. This quote is important, because it can be anyone’s child and for that reason Fraas is able to get other college’s attention by sending them a message that parents want their kids to go to a safe school. If colleges openly accept trans students, parents will want to send their children to that college over an un-accepting college where these percentages are more likely to come
Recently, in a poorly written article for The Federalist, Mrs. Nicole Russell let her feelings about allowing transgender people in the bathroom that best matches their gender identities known. In her uneducated opinion expressed in “The Sexes: Don’t Put My Five-Year-Old Girl In A Bathroom With A Transgender Boy” Mrs. Russell claims that transgender people should stick to the gender, and by default, the bathroom that was assigned to them at birth.
Early April 2016, North Carolina passed a law restricting governments from passing laws that are discriminatory. This law is intended to protect Transgender people from discrimination. Discrimination against Transgenders is against the law, and it has stirred up arguments throughout the nation. With more and more people standing up against discrimination regarding Transgenders, the debate about Transgenders is now nationwide. Unfortunately, Transgenders still continue to face public discrimination due to misinformation and misleading statements from the media.
Many people are arguing over the transgender bathroom situation, even here in our very own school system, Grace Christian Academy. Some say one should use the restroom of his/her biological identity, while others say one should have the right to use the restroom they gender identify with. Now the issue is starting to arise in public and private school systems, since the law now states every school has to have at least one transgender bathroom available on school property. As a parent with a child in your school system, I would like to express my opinion on this matter with you. Even though this is a private Christian school, and I am a Christian myself, I do not see a problem with having a transgender bathroom on school property for multiple reasons. For example,
We, as human beings, should be involved in the idea of supporting rights and equality for transgenders because they are one of us no matter what they believe. It definitely matters to the audience to aware of since discrimination against transgender is still a susceptible issue, not only defense against gender minorities, but also against human rights generally. If we do not start correcting this problem, our family members or children may experience the unavoidable consequences of it themselves in the future. We need to fight to protect the rights and safety of transgender nonconforming students to be treated with respect at school as well as their parents.
In 2015, a question of whether or not transgender individuals should be allowed to use the restroom of their choosing or that of the sex they identify with came to light. Many states began to present bills to mandate this. It was the result of many conservative claims that a transgender individual should have to use the restroom appropriately determined by their biological gender at birth, or the gender that is presented on their birth certificate. The conservatives argued that allowing transgender individuals to use the restroom in which they identified with would be putting people in danger of sexual assault and harassment by sexual predators and it would allow peeping toms to lurk on innocent women and children. Many believe that it would also allow an opportunity for pedophiles to prey on children.
February 22, 2017: “Trump administration's reversal of Obama-era protections that allow transgender students in public schools to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity has angered civil rights groups. The change in position Wednesday reignited the debate on whether guidance on transgender students' use of bathroom and locker room facilities is a state or federal rights issue.” ● The reversal of this policy puts the decision making squarely where it should be - in the hands of the people, not the federal government. Claim: Both administration’s directives have touched off emotionally charged national protests and debates, only making life worse, because segregation has been such a hot-button issue.
Transgender people deserve to have all the rights that a non-transgender person has. As a person who assigns herself to her assigned gender, I can go to the doctor at anytime with any problem and can get treated very easily. Unfortunately, people that identify as transgender do not have the same rights as I do. A transgender person by definition is: “someone whose gender identity-that is, an individual’s internal sense of being male or female-does not align with his or her assigned sex” (Barry).
To put it simply with a quote from a parent arguing for the implementation of gender neutral bathrooms in schools, “If you can prevent a suicide, that’s good (Madigan).” All things considered, the argument barring transgender people from their bathroom of choice is typically founded on one single misconception, the aforementioned delusion that that transgender women and/or sexual predators will take advantage of others in restrooms. This reasoning predominantly derives from debates always “anchor[ing] to [transgender women’s] imagined ‘male anatomies’ and thus become categorized as potential sexual threats to those vested with vulnerable subjecthood, namely cisgender women (Schilt 14).” However, this statement is a gross generalization on both genders. It is axiomatic that not all persons with a penis is a sexual predator and not all persons with a vagina are meek, defenseless creatures incapable of defending themselves, calling the authorities, or simply removing themselves from the
In this article Davis states, “The debate over whether transgender students should be able to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity is likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court refused Tuesday to reconsider a three-judge panel's ruling on the matter. ”(1). My thought on this is that transgender students should be able to use the restroom of the gender they identify as, because they are no different then off the other people that use those restrooms. Also, if they identify as that gender this means they have the same rights as the people of that gender. In the article Grimm states, “"I'm banned from a gender specific place and it is a big issue for me, this is one way the school is saying, we do not believe you are legitimate, and that is a big deal to me,"”
President Barack Obama’s administration recently presented guidance on the policy for transgender bathrooms in schools across the nation. The administration said that a student who is transgender, should be able to use whichever restroom they prefer. A current federal judge, Judge Reed O’Conner has currently blocked the administrations guidelines so that school districts do not experience any controversy or problems during the start of the school year. Judge O’Conner says that the guidelines were created without much thought or understanding. Judge Reed O’Conner also points out that since the guidelines are a legal matter, the school districts and states should have the ability to process the guidelines and speak their mind on the situation
This fight is not about the safety and well-being of our children. This fight is about stopping the progress of the LGBTQIA*+ community. This “bathroom debate” is not just a fight for the right to pee but a fight for civil rights. Transgender people are just like everybody else. The terms and labels they use for themselves or the ones we choose to use for them, does not change the fact that they are people. They have jobs, they have spouses, they have kids, they have parents, they are students, they bleed when you cut them open and they cry when they are in pain. Urinating is a normal bodily function and is non-optional. Every person deserves basic human rights, and peeing while being and feeling safe, is a basic human right. In conclusion, the opposition consists of liars and those who will believe whatever they are told. No man has ever pretended to be transgender to get into a women’s public washroom or change room and no registered sex offender has ever pretended to be transgender to sexually assault someone in a public washroom or change room. Transgender people experience much more sexual and physical violence than cisgender people. Children are much more tolerant of “differences” than adults. The people who are “scared” are not truly afraid of perverted men or registered sex offenders. The people who are “scared” fear change. Those who fear change will do anything to stop it. The first step is to show how normal transgender people truly are. People need to see that they are like everybody else. We need more transgender representation in fictional and nonfictional media, we need children and young adults educated on transgender people and issues in schools, and we need to learn to accept others. It is okay to have questions and concerns but it is not okay to deny someone the right to feel comfortable and safe while their pants are around their ankles in a public washroom. Justice will prevail as it always does but the sooner
Recently, there has been an uproar of debates on the topic of gender neutral bathrooms. Most of the debates have had to deal with the LGBTQ+ community trying to use the bathroom they identify with. However, these debates have mainly focused on transgenders, “transgender is a term used to describe people whose gender identity differs from the sex the doctor marked on their birth certificate” (GLADD). There has been several bills that “have been filed in three states to prevent transgender people from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity” (Tannehill). Kentucky has tried to pass bills that target transgender students, but the bill in Texas and Florida would apply to everywhere (Tannehill). There are many different sides to this