Issues In The Transgender Community

Here in Canada, this issue has been brought forward in both communities and provincial level of concerns. To take a look closer to home, the city of Toronto had witnessed the complexity of this issue in the past years. A Toronto transgender teen who identifies as a male, was banned from using his high school boys restroom, and was forced to leave school grounds and search for a public bathroom at a gas station. Concerns were mentioned for the safety of Spencer, and also how he felt uncomfortable being forced to use the women’s restroom; however, several parents and students agreed with how the school was taking action to this problem. After a petition was enacted by fellow supportive students, Spencer was allowed to freely use the restrooms at his high school.

A man is a man, no matter how he dresses, so let him into the women's bathroom is absurd. 2. Male perverts and pedophiles disguised as women this is significant because it is said that if a male transition to a female does not matter what he is a male making him capable of thinking like a male and acting like a male it is saying not matter what you do to yourself you are still your biological sex and vice versa. transgender is trying to stop people from thinking like the previous statement because of that, in fact, is the wrong people are who they think they are not what they truly are and that's how a lot of people think.Transgenders are confident in themselves and believe that their struggle will be passed not matter how society thinks or feel about Transgenders it's really about what's in the law and what right they have a unity and what's for the best as a whole also for the future Transgenders to have it a better way than the current Transgenders do, they won't have to struggle so hard. this shows that just like the civil right movement, they want if better for themselves and for their kids or other Transgenders. Transgender believe it could hurt anybody to have a little bit more diverse and open minded.Transgender are gonna fight for what's right until the end not matter how far they

In fact, according to studies, although discrimination is prevalent among the majority of the transgender community, a transgender person of color is discriminated against more than a white transgender person, and an African American transgender person has it way worse than any other transgender population. The issue at hand is whether or not transgender individuals deserve to be treated with the same respect as any other person and have laws to protect them. Transgender people deserve to have rights that protect them and make them feel safe in society because they’re forced to use public facilities that don’t match their gender expression which could be dangerous for them, because they’re oppressed, violated and dehumanized only because they’re expressing who they really are, and because they aren’t treated as equal citizens, resulting in the denial of fundamental things like education, housing and employment. On the other hand, some people believe that transgender people shouldn’t have laws put in place for their benefit because they think that allowing transgender people access to facilities that correspond with their gender identity would be an invasion of privacy of the other people using the

Public restroom assaults committed by transgender people are statistically not an issue. Supporters of gender identity rights state no evidence that lead to attacks in public restrooms. Many men and women believe that allowing transgender citizens to enter the bathroom of their choice is going to put members of our society at risk. As Battle of the Bathrooms was written, many people fought against this mindset. According to Jeffrey Ian Ross, a criminologist, “There is not any anecdotal evidence that trans-friendly rules have been abused by predators, or that incidents of violence or sexual assault have increased”(35). While much of the United States population supports allowing transgender people to use the gender’s bathroom that they identify with; there are still many people who disagree with transgender citizens being allowed to use their gender specific bathroom. The United States of America is evolving; with that being said, equal rights have become a pivotal element in our society.

The effort to promote a more tolerant society has polluted America’s legislation with bills that favor the rights of minorities over the rights of the majority. One instance of such acts are the newly emerging neutral bathroom policy laws. This law, designed in favor of transgenders, establishes public bathrooms that any individual can enter regardless of their sex. While democratic liberals back these policies because it allows the LGBTQ community to use the bathroom that corresponds to their identity, the reality that results from this situation is much darker. Author Kaeley Triller realizes the consequences of allowing these neutral bathroom policies in her article: “A Rape Survivor Speaks Out About Transgender Bathrooms”, in which she, being a former victim of sexual assault, explains the dangers of such laws. She states, “I am not saying that transgender people are predators… What I am saying is that there are countless deviant men in this world who will pretend to be transgender as a means of gaining access to the people they want to exploit, namely women and children. It already happens. Just Google Jason

Something needs to happen across our nation as said in the editorial, " The movement for basic human rights and equality of transgendered people needs to be dealt with on a national scale" ( Editorial 2). It is important that we make a federal law but one that will give the power back to states. With an estimated population of 1.4 million there may be states that do not require to change their policies on public restroom use. This issue needs to be placed on a more situational basis that will decide to change the usage of restrooms based upon the needs of the students. If Transgendered students attend a school then there are accommodated instead of forcing all schools to comply with the same

Many lawmakers claim that men will call themselves transgender just to enter women’s restrooms and prey on girls, but there is no known case of this ever happening (“Transgender Rights”). Making discriminatory bills has not solved anything because there was no issue to be solved to begin with. If anything, these bills have potentially created a problem that never existed prior to their creation. Society would be safer for everyone if people would respect other people’s decision to live as they wish within the limits of the law. People do not have to agree with gender identity struggles to show kindness and decency to the people around them; this decency can prevent transgender people from feeling helpless in a world that constantly tears their community down. Alan Greenblatt backs this by citing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, who says, “We know through historical data that people will be more successful in their transition if they have some social support, a very highly developed sense of their self in relation to the world and that they're not socially or emotionally impaired” (“Transgender

In the past few years alone, the world as a whole has become remarkably aware of the transgender community. With this have come historic advances in civil rights for transgender people; however, discrimination continues to be a significant problem. In the United States, one public issue that has surfaced is public bathroom use; many individuals are opposed to transgender people’s using the gendered bathrooms of their choice simply because the genders assigned to them at birth are different from their gender identities.

The oppression of Transgender people is a serious issue in our society because they face harsh and, sometimes, violent discrimination, lack legal protection, and may be pushed to develop life-altering issues and decisions.

Are transgender communities getting the rights that they deserve? The answer is no. Most states have no laws that protect against the LGBT community. However, there are several states that have implemented laws that will accommodate the community with the same rights that a person who does not struggle with their sexual identity. “California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia all have such laws” (“Transgender People and the Law”). The most common confusion that falls under these anti-discrimination laws is whether it protects transgender men and women in using the appropriate restroom for their claimed status of sexual identity. On the flip note, many people feel uncomfortable to be sharing the restroom with a person who was born a man, however, identifies herself as a woman and vice versa. The problem is not who is using the “proper” restroom, the problem is people who are demanding greater rights than a transgender individual.

However, there were bathroom bills that were posed, and the backlash of states such as Arizona, Maryland, Kentucky and Florida, suggest that transgender people feeling are not valid. They should use the bathroom that matches the sex on their birth certificate. As a Corps officer of The Salvation Army, I have to say no with love because of our KeepSafe Policy. I have to protect the children who are placed under my care against predators, and I have to be aware of all situations. In contrast, I am called to love and express Christ-like genuine love to all people. In today society, if individuals don’t have a personal relationship with Christ, there is no real way they can handle a transgender person without being ethical biases. This is my opinion, personally; I don’t have a problem with transgender. I know whatever they are doing is not morally right under God's the law. Even so, I am not God, and that is their sin, I not here to judge them. I am only here to show them, Christ-like love. They will have to answer to God at the time of

As explained by Tando , a gender therapist, “ Gender is between the ears, it's in the brain. Sex is anatomy it's between your legs, and they are two very different things.” I believe this to be very true. This meaning what you are between the legs sometimes has nothing to do with the gender you are. Many people have experienced this. Furthermore many things are not being done to get them the rights they deserve. Numerous people will protest against what I know to be right. Obama's guidance laws were put in place for just that reason, but have since been blocked by the supreme court. This is a classic example of how people do not believe that everyone should be treated equal including the transgender community. This is spreading rapidly and widely across the country. The suicide rate is getting higher and higher in Transgenders and it is causing chaos in schools. The transgender

Throughout American history, numerous influential social movements arose, such as the civil rights movement, the youth movement, and the animal rights movement. However, one of the most prominent and rapidly changing movements in the past year, 2015, has been the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement, the advocacy for equal rights between heterosexual and LGBT individuals. In this year, the LGBT movement made many crucial achievements. Starting off the year, in February of 2015, the Human Rights Campaign began a movement named the People’s Brief. The purpose of this campaign was to gain nationwide support for the LGBT movement. The group ended up gaining over 200,000 signatures which was many more signatures than any other brief ever given to the Supreme Court. The transgender side of the LGBT movement also had major successes in 2015. After Caitlyn Jenner came out, the movement changed drastically. It sparked many transgender people to come out to the media and discuss the inequalities and violence that trans people face in society. However, perhaps the most important victory for the LGBT was the legalizing of gay marriage across the country. This event happened on June 26, 2015 when the supreme court declared that denying two people the right to marry, regardless of gender, is unconstitutional. Even though just a few accomplishments were named, many others occurred that also had major impacts on the LGBT movement (“Best”). Although in recent months the

Transgender equality has been a struggle in our society for decades. The “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender” or “LGBT” community has created more than twenty laws to ensure that they are protected and treated equally within their chosen state. Unfortunately, until recently, most states had not passed the laws, leaving the LGBT community unable to get married, be identified as who they self-identify with rather than the gender they were born as, or even use the public restroom of the gender they self-identify with. Now, in 2017, the United States has become more accepting of the transgender population, has passed more laws, and bills that protect the transgender community.

On May 31st, 2016 an article was written about the use of restrooms for transgender people. This article is another example of not only the amount of discrimination seen in example one, but also about the amount of segregation constantly occurring in the United States to this day. Transgender people are being saw differently from others when they only want to fit in and be themselves. They can only use restrooms according to the sex they were born with. Some places are even starting to make “uni-sex” restrooms. They are not aloud to use the restrooms depending on the gender they changed to. Jim Crows Laws that kept blacks and whites segregated relates to this problem as well. Transgender people are being segregated from everyone else because