Argument Against Transgender Rights

Many people have spoken about having a tough time accepting a person since the way they sexually identify themselves is different. Being identified as transgender has become a highly controversial topic around the world and part of the population does not quite understand why the people that identify themselves as transgender choose to do so. Some people do not believe in what it means to be transgender and let their opinions on the topic change the real meaning of the term.

There is a saying, if a person has got to go, they have to go. This saying refers to needing to use the bathroom, and it is not that simple for transgender people. Transgender people have been barred from using the bathroom of their choice, with bills and laws that are called bathroom bills. These bathroom bills are unfair, and need to be banned, as they lead to physical and verbal harassment towards people in schools and accounts for discrimination against transgender people across the country.

I believe that transgender athletes pose major issues regarding keeping sports accomplishments untainted.  For example a world class male sprinter would destroy the female records, but he'd be considered an average male sprinter. The same holds true for the military based on the fitness requirement for females.  The only people that are going to be pushed beyond their physical limitations are the females transitioning to

The problem with transgender rights is that they are not treated as basic human rights. The main cause of this problem is that some people look at it as "not in the norm" or "out of the ordinary" and as a result, transgender people are either out casted, bullied, beaten, killed or denied certain rights. A human male wanting to transition into a human female and vice versa should not make them less than exactly what they are, a human-being. A possible solution would be for people to take the time to research and educate or interact with more transgender people and learn something about their decision instead of going into the problem blind with the assumption that all transgender people are not normal.

Transgender rights and policies have always been an ongoing debate. In the article, “Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penis Panics,” Schilt and Westbrook (2015) argued that in order to push gender equality forward, we must consider the rights of transgender people by allowing them to have access to bathrooms that support their gender identity rather than their biological sex. In doing so, authors believed that it would make progress in alleviating discrimination against transgender people. However, in this conscious effort to fight for transgender rights and their access to sex-segregated spaces,

The death of Lela Alcorn was an event that dramatically changed our views on sexuality. Shortly after Leelah died, a petition was started known as Lela’s law which would ban conversion therapy in the United States. The petition gathered 100,000 signatures in which case required a response from white house officials. In April 2015, President Obama responded to the petition stated that he supported the law and was working to get the law enacted. To give more overview on Lela’s suicide, Lela Alcorn was a 17-year-old transsexual female who jumped out in front of a trunk. In her suicide note Lela stated “I feel like a girl trapped in a boy 's body, and I 've felt that way ever since I was 4.” (Lela Alcorn Suicide note page 1). When Lela was 14, Lela told her parents that she was transgender, however Lela’s parents were not accepting of this decision, stating that God doesn’t make mistakes and that she was in fact a boy and sent her to conversion therapy. The conversion therapy only made Lela feel worse about herself and took her own life.

Within this modern time new ideas and concepts within our society regarding rights between gender, are being brought into light. Firstly, transgender news has been picked up quite frequently. People are feeling more free to be themselves as a different gender and/or are taking the initiative to make the hormonal or surgical change. Though the freedom is relieving, many others find the need to make comments on others lives such as the Wall Street Journal, saying “we don’t allow children to vote or get tattoos, yet in the name of progressive thinking we are allowing them to choose serious bio-medical interventions” (Source A). This may have a true sentiment, yet the truth is as it stands, it is no one else’s place to make that decision. The

On December 24, 2014, Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teenager, committed suicide by jumping in front of oncoming traffic. She had wrote in her suicide note that was posted online that she ended her own life because her parents did not accept her as transgender and they also tried to send her to a Christian conversion therapy to “fix” her. She wanted the world to understand that no one can change her and she wanted her story to inspire others to take action against conversion therapies. She also wanted other members of the LGBT+ community to feel okay with themselves. Many people who hear of this story do not even know what conversion therapy is, even though it does play a very important part of her story. Conversion therapy is described as

Transgenders Are Equals They wake up and go to bed, they go to the same stores, they breath the same air, and they drive the same cars so why can't Transgenders have the same jobs and rights as us ? Transgenders have been doing all the same things we do forever, Now suddenly it's a huge problem for them to have the same jobs and receive the same things we do and have equal rights. Transgenders should have equal rights because they are more prominent in society than we may think, they need our medical help , and they are just like everyone else. To better understand why people don't want the Transgender community to have equal rights, one reason is because people who have been sexually assaulted and traumatized physically or mentally fear that predators will use the bathroom rules to their advantage. Safe Spaces for Women is a group that provides women who have been sexually assaulted with support and care and advice.

Leelah Alcorn became a monster and a martyr. Being a transgender teen rejected by her parents was impossible for Leelah, a 17-year-old transgender girl born Joshua Ryan Alcorn who lived in Ohio before committing suicide on December 28, 2014. Leelah came out to her parents, a conservative Christian couple, as transgender at the age of 14. Leelah’s mother rejected the claim, saying that it was just a phase and that Leelah would never truly be a girl because God doesn’t make mistakes. Carla Alcorn claimed that her child––who she referred to, even after the death, as her son––had only spoken of being transgender once; Leelah’s suicide note, posted on her Tumblr, explained that she’d been trying for a long time to gain the acceptance of her parents

One out-group of mine is the community of people who are transgender. I do not identify with this community. In the United States, this group has expanded over recent years. Transgender people go through a lot of discrimination in the United States. There are many negative stereotypes and prejudices that are associated with this group. There are many people who are supportive of this community, but there are also many people who are not supportive.

I feel the whole transgender topic is so sad. No matter who, anyone that is transgender has to fight for everything when it shouldn't be like that. They are humans just like everyone else, yet get treated like they are nothing any get denied many rights. Why do people care so much if that makes them happy then let them be. In the first article i thought they defiantly should of gave her a chance. Its so sad they they discriminated her just because she was born male. she had as much right to be there like everyone else. Why do they make rules that take transgenders right to participate in pageants. i will never understand but i feel they should they should of handled it way different. Everyone wants a better world but when this keeps happening it seems impossible. For the second article i feel the University was completely unfair to him. If he basically lives his life as a male why wouldn't they allow him to work with males. Being discriminated must be one of the worst feelings because your denied rights everyone else gets. But it makes me happy that even after everything most transgenders don't give

How can we be so backward as the most technologically advanced generation in the history of the world? How is it that in a world full of social interaction on the internet, giving us countless relationships and connections on a day-to-day basis, can we be so blind to the needs of one specific group of people? I’m referring to the LGBT community. In this time of social integration and communal thought, there is still a hate driven, homophobic, and isolationist treatment of these people. What I intend to illustrate is why the LGBT community should be accepted.

Transgender inequality has gone on for a lot of years, causing commotion, suicides, and more. Due to the lack of respect to transgender people, some feel like they don’t belong here, because of all the hate they get from others and end their life which should never happen. In 1952 “Christine Jorgenson became the first American to have a sex change” (The New York Times). The first transition from male to female sex was starting the new transgender phenomenon. One person started something and now a bunch of people do it. If someone else isn’t comfortable as who they are why would another make fun of them, when they know they are already nervous in their own skin. Transgender is a category that more people should take a stand on and protect: “That’s why we defend free speech and advocate for political prisoners, and condemn the persecution of women, or religious minorities, or people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender” Mr. Obama said (The New York Times).On New York Times it states, “It is always a tragedy when anybody takes their own life, doubly so when they are so young.”This week Leelah Alcorn took her own life. In her

Saying that transgender kids should not be able to go to school or even be separated in stores is very extreme. I don’t see why they shouldn’t get an education. But having them separated in stores is too crazy. How would they be able to shop for things they may need. In comparison, what you’re saying is just like when slavery was around. Whites were separated from blacks, but in this situation, all people are separated from transgender’s.