Bathroom Argumentative Essay

The Executive Director of American Civil Liberties Union Georgia chapter resigned over the organization's stance on directive allowing use of bathrooms as per gender identity.

Maya Dillard Smith's personal encounter with transgender people in bathroom changed her opinion about viability of the law that opens women bathrooms to people of other gender. She said in a statement that her young daughters got scared when they saw hefty transgender people enter their bathroom.

"I have shared my personal experience of having taken my elementary school age daughters into a women's restroom when shortly after three transgender young adults over six feet with deep voices entered. My children were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of questions for which I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer," she wrote.

I don't know about that. There's some boys who feel like they're girls on the inside, and there's some boys who are just perverts." The video also included slides which spelled out point of view of those not siding with bathroom law.

"Bathroom safety is a real concern for ALL parents... not just parents of trans youth. So what are the SOLUTIONS that make all youth safe and comfortable?... How can we ask these kinds of questions... without being called a homophobe? Where are the safe spaces to have conversations that will keep trans people safe, little girls and boys safe, mothers safe and families safe?"

Smith told radio station WABE that ALCU did not entertain her questions about the bathroom ordinance.

"It became clear that we were principally and philosophically different in opinion," she said in the radio interview this week. "How do we educate ourselves if we can't ask those questions, engage in