Persuasive Essay On Transgender People

Many people have strong opinions pertaining to transgender folk and their rights. It’s becoming more and more of a political issue, especially since North Carolina’s proposal of the “bathroom bill” which declares people should be required by law to use restrooms matching with the sex on their birth certificate. Transgenders have been in a controversial spotlight for just about a decade now, and many people are perplexed. An even more controversial topic is transgender youth. Should transgender teens be allowed to go undergo hormone therapy before adulthood? Transitioning genders is a very long, very complex process. Usually, if a child or young teen wants to transition to the opposite gender, they are given “hormone blockers,” which are agents used to suppress sex hormones and prevent puberty. Hormone blockers make it easier and more effective to achieve the desired physical appearance in gender transition. They also help with gender dysphoria. When transgender people are ready to start the transition, they are given hormones which cause their bodies to develop into the desired form. Gender transition is a very complex process that works differently for everyone, and it definitely makes sense how many people disagree with minors going through such a complicated physical change.

In the past few weeks, talk of transgenders has been on the rise. America is considering whether or not transgenders should be able to use the restroom they most feel comfortable in instead of what they were born as biologically. It’s as if our society is running in circles when it comes to segregation and human rights. The same thing problem occurred during the Jim Crow era. Bathrooms were usually marked with “white people only” signs. And not only blacks but women and handicapped people were fighting for equality. Now transgenders are fighting for their rights. Recently North Carolina decided to create a new law called the “bathroom bill”, that limits bathroom access to transgenders. The Justice Department warned the state that it violates their civil rights, and this

I live in the metropolitan area of Washington D.C., and recently there has been some controversy over transgenders using public restrooms. This is a moral issue because it is a form of discrimination on transgenders. There are laws that have been put into place to protect them, and to give them rights to use the restroom of which they identify by. Recently a high school student by the name of Galvin Grimm, in Virginia sued his county school board. Galvin Grimm is a transgender male that was born a female. The case is Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. This came about because he decided to identify as a male his freshman year of high school. Galvin was able to use the boys restroom for a couple of months. It wasn’t until parents of students that attended the same school, found out about this young man.

In today’s society, many Americans would not think that forbidding the right for gay couples to be able to marry would affect them. What most Americans fail to recognize is that these kinds of discriminatory laws reach out and touch every civilian in this country. For a nation to be known for its rights for civilians, why is our nation intentionally and blatantly telling one group of people that they are not entitled to have the very same rights, protection, and benefits as heterosexual couples? If the government can interfere with the lives of those it is supposed to protect and not allow the pursuit of happiness, then there is no telling if anyone is truly safe? The growing need for LGBT rights has become much more apparent in the recent

In our modern society we seem to adapt into new customs which shape our social values, integrity and future. The issue of transgender people is a new one that has recently surfaced in the presidential campaign of 2016, it is an issue that has taken the media by storm with the controversial law placed by North Carolina which prohibits people who self identify as the opposite sex that they were originally born as from using the bathroom of their choice.

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.

These laws being held the way they are and with them being constantly publicized the way it is, this is all causing enormous troubles in schools.” Human rights groups have called on the government to establish anti-discrimination laws in the wake of a report that unveiled widespread abuses committed against transgender women.” As said in the Phnom Penh post. Many of you have either attended school , or are currently attending a school. And many of us have experienced being bullied. Many times we are picked on because of how we dress or the things we do, these are all things that we can in fact change. But do we remember when blacks were picked on for having a colored skin, for something they couldn't change! That is the same thing that these people have to deal with, they are being picked on for being who they are something they cannot change. These kids just want to be able to use the same bathrooms as

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.

The issue of transgender students and their right to public restrooms has recently been brought into the political spotlight. Transgender being defined by the authors of the article Experiences of Transgender-Related Discrimination and Implications for Health: Results from the Virginia Transgender Health Initiative Study as, “…an umbrella term used to de- scribe people whose gender identity or expression does not conform to that typically associated with the sex they were born as or assigned to at birth” (Bradford, Reisner, Honnold, Xavier 1820). It is statistically clear that transgender students are at greater risk of harassment and physical harm than their cisgender peers. Not allowing these students to use the restroom of their gender

According to the New York Times, they interviewed some students on how they felt about having a person who identifies themselves as a transgender in their bathroom. A girl named Grace Diggers doesn't think it is appropriate for a girl that was a boy at birth to come into the girls' restrooms with other females. She said in her interview, "I think that it is endangering females by opening the doors for any man who wants to enter locker rooms and restrooms where females are. If schools want to provide a gender neutral restroom or space where transgender people can go, that is one thing, but eliminating any place where girls can go and have privacy from men is a very bad policy." I understand this high schoolers opinions and views of the bathroom issues and maybe this policy they are proposing is not the correct answer but I do believe there is a right answer, somewhere that can be inclusive of not only transgenders but other identities as

Schools that discriminate against transgender individuals do not care how they mistreat them. This is a huge problem in the world because students that establish different genders are forced to use restricted restrooms and alternate facilities. Parents and attorneys consider that discrimination. A high school in Chicago has 30 days to handle a situation involving a transgender student who classifies themselves as girls, and wants to shower and get ready in the girls’ locker rooms. “Thad Ballard elected to keep transgender students from using the facilities that match their identities, and he want other students to respect other people’s sexual orientations” (Bosman & Rich, 2015 p. 2).

Laws are being passed that restrict transgender's rights to use the bathroom. In 2016, 18 state legislatures considered bills that would restrict transgender students from using bathrooms, locker rooms, and other facilities(Human Rights Watch.) The transgender youth are being forced to use the bathroom of the gender they did not feel comfortable with. The transgender youth should have a say with this decision.

People call me a lesbian because I am a woman who is attracted to a woman.

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” This old adage is repeated on children’s playgrounds across the country in the face of bullying and name calling. What happens when the names actually do hurt the child emotionally, leading to physical self-harm? In a study of transgender youth conducted by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 30% of respondents said they have attempted suicide in their lifetime. Many negative factors have influenced transgender individuals into being more at risk for suicide, including bullying, harassment, and shame. Whenever the topic of bullying comes up, people normally imagine the isolated incidents of kids being pushed down in the schoolyard, rarely thinking of verbal harassment. In the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, 54% of transgender respondents in grades K-12 have been victims of verbal harassment, revealing the troubling reality that more than half of transgender youth are verbally attacked before the age of 18. Verbal harassment induces self loathing and reduces the chance of the child ever feeling accepted. One way to prevent the problem of transgender youth being bullied is to try to influence children to not see transgender youth as different. Transgender persons will never feel accepted into our society unless we change our discourse in the way we use gender pronouns.

As a consequence of President Trump’s refusal to renew the DACA policy, many DREAMers are now in the limbo, fighting for a new piece of legislation to pass and secure them from being drifted away from the US, deporting them. While the dismantling of DACA is certainly a drawback, the movement is only raising their voices even more. There are times in which a movement feels stagnant, perhaps because of the false sense of security DACA caused in many DREAMers, the movement had stopped making themselves hear. I have the sense that a movement has its ups and downs, there are times in which there is a high record of activity and there are times in which there is not. But before 2010 everybody referred to the undocumented problem differently, when the DREAMers crafted their narrative and exposed themselves, the movement was taken more seriously.