Transgender Bathroom Laws On North Carolin Detrimental Rhetoric And Much Ado About Nothing

Throughout the states, gender-neutral bathrooms have become the hot topic with lawmakers and the LGBT community. The state, federal and school officials has argued over weather transgender people should use the facilities matching their gender identity. In recent times, gender-neutral restrooms have been on a move since 2009 in Vermont. During this rising movement in 2012-13, 150 universities had installed gender neutral bathrooms and a few high schools. Former President Obama also put the first gender neutral bathroom in The Whitehouse. On March 23, 2016 in Raleigh North Carolina lawmakers gather for a general assembly regarding the House Bill 2. The bill reflects on identifying male and female by their biological sex and what it states on the birth certificate. Governor Roy Cooper then signed a repeal on the restricted bathroom law that was passed by both the Republican legislatives and Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper. However, coming up with a solution with each other, Gov. Cooper states that "It wasn’t a perfect deal or my preferred solution, but an important first step for our state” (Cooper). Although the controversy remains whether there will be legal protection for the transgender individuals. The law has now open a whole new national backlash from entertainers cancelling concerts, sports leagues not playing stadiums and business managers not allowing transgenders to work do to their religious beliefs.

House Bill 2, also referred to as the bathroom bill or HB2, was passed into law as the Public Facilities Privacy and Securities Act. There is so much more to this recently passed law than allowing transgendered people to access there bathroom of choice. HB2 sets a certain criteria for who may, or may not be protected against discrimination. A person is only protected from discrimination of the information on their birth certificate and their religion. Sexual preference however, is not protected by state law, and it has never been. This law also removes the standard minimum wage set by a city or county that is imposed on private employers. Schools that depend on federal education funding could be affected by HB2. NC state law requires students to use bathrooms according to their gender. The federal government has a law that does not allow discrimination in any school program, and it also covers sexual preferences under it’s sexual discrimination clause. This law is a disgrace to what the fore fathers of this country clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence.

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hb2 is a new law ongoing in North carolina. It removes protections for gay and lesbian workers. Permitting an employer to fire them for their love interest. And also requires transgender individuals to use their assigned birth sex bathrooms. Cities in North Carolina are also now not allowed to enforce their own anti discrimination protection laws.

In 2015 The North Carolina House passed a bill now referred to as the “Bathroom Bill”, legally known as North Carolina HB2. The direct implications from North Carolina HB2 is that people regardless of current or identifying genders, must use the public bathroom that correlates to the gender on their birth certificate. (“HOUSE BILL DRH40005-TC-1B”) HB2 has been pushed by its supporting lawmakers as a protection on the usage of public bathrooms. Lawmakers claim that the bill is made to protect cisgender individuals, those born to their gender, from transgender individuals, from harassment in the bathroom setting. Yet, there have been zero recorded cases of a transgender individual

The HB2 law shouldn’t be passed because it can cause crime and a lot of angry people also the crime rate would go up tremendously. It will protected men, women and children if the HB2 law isn’t passed because men wouldn’t be able to go in the women bathrooms and women wouldn’t be able to go in men bathrooms. The HB2 law is stopping sports in North Carolina because they think men should go in women bathrooms but North Carolina thinks different and I totally agree with North Carolina on not passing the law. The liberal people that wants the HB2 law passed just wants attention and to start a big argument with the people that think the law shouldn’t be passed. In the bible it talks about men shouldn’t go with men and women shouldn’t go with women and that’s how its supposed to be. The HB2 law is making North Carolina lose millions of dollars just because they want the HB2 law passed.

Did you know that House Bill 2 eliminates any state law claim for discrimination in the workplace based on gender orientation? You can now get fired for your race, religious beliefs, sex, etc. HB2 has been just discrimination against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender, Transsexuals and Queer people (LGBTQ people). The downfall of that claim was it cited a study that said North Carolina might lose more than $500 million, not that it already had. At the time we found a more accurate estimate of losses was between $77 million and the 201 million (Will Doran). House Bill 2 is referred to as the bathroom law. The prominence of House Bill 2 is to determine the rights of transsexual and transgender people to use the bathroom without discrimination. But the state overrode it and ended up doing harm.

When it comes to the HB2, it is not going against transgender human beings, it is simply keeping citizens in the community safe. For example, a man could say that he was transgender and called himself a female just to get into the woman’s bathroom and sexually assault a woman or a child. No matter what anyone says, most women tend to be frightened when they are with or around a strange man. For example, in the essay “Just Walk On By: Black Men and Public Space”, it talks about how Staples and a young woman were walking in the same direction on a sidewalk at night. When the young woman realized that Staples was behind her, she instantly became frightened, which is understandable. The young woman began to walk faster trying to get away from Staples not grasping that he wasn’t going to hurt her. Eventually, the woman was out of sight and away from Staples. Even though the essay “Just Walk On By: Black Men and Public Space” does not talk about bathroom safety itself, it does show how people feel harmed by others looks and who is around them because of stereotyping. For women and children, the door is always open for the possibility to become sexually assaulted. With this law passed, it gives women and children a small sense of relief. Supporters of the HB2 stand up for their rights and say that HB2 “defends religious liberty and protects girls in public restrooms

Governor Pat McCrory as well as the General Assembly stated that their reasoning for adoption of House Bill 2 was based on the safety and well-being of children and women, from male predators that would be entering into women’s bathrooms. What should have been taken into account is there has been no evidence showing male predators taking advantage of these nondiscrimination ordinances in other places in America to go into a bathroom to commit a crime involving a woman or child. Also a lot of those ordinances in other places have been in effect over time and nothing has happened. What needs to be focused on is the evidence that has been provided showing children and youth of the LGBTQ community suffering from being bullied as well as assaulted

Gender equality is a pressing issue in the United States. The definition of gender, and the rights that accompany them, is constantly being updated and adjusted. The LBGT community is fighting for equality after being repressed for many years. Because of this sudden movement, social issues are sparking outrage and debate on whether a certain law or right for LBGT people is to be initiated. In many instances, these issues dominate the media, and cause for chaos on both sides of the spectrum. The bathroom controversy exemplifies this. The LBGT community argues that anyone should be able to use whichever bathroom that matches with their identified gender. Members of the LBGT community should not be able to use whatever bathroom they please.

In comparison, the transgender community is facing legal issues with a new bill in North Carolina and Mississippi that requires them to use the bathroom of the gender they were born into. In addition to this, it takes away legal protection for people who identify as LGBT, allowing for legal discrimination. The percent of people who identify as transgender is 0.3% in the United States as of 2011.

TIME magazine in April 5, 2016, in North Carolina, the law passed recently became the first state law in the country limiting transgender people to use the bathroom corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates, also excluding LGBT people from anti-discrimination protections, plus blocking municipalities from passing their own anti-discrimination rules. (Dalesio, 2016)

The House Bill 2 has become a huge topic these past few months with its main hot button issue being the accessibility of public bathrooms to the transgender community. For those whom are unfamiliar with the bill it was created and issued by North Carolinas governor, Pat McCrory. The bill focuses on sticking to the gender norms of public and business owned bathroom. Thus making it illegal for someone whom identifies as a different gender than they sex they are born with to enter the bathroom that they see fit. One of the points that McCrory tosses around in order to keep HB2 in a positive light is that it will help protect the women and children in the community from “predators.” Well how does this bill work when it is applied to public schools in North Carolina were children are the main concern? The answer is that it does not work at all. For now, the previous policy for public school bathrooms are going to stay the same thanks to the federal government, but when applied to schools it becomes a toxic environment for everyone who is not cis gendered.

Not only does HB2 give power to the state, but it also gives employers the ability to fire someone because of their non-Biological Sex and Sexual Orientation. Not only is this causing problems socially but it also causes emotional distress in the LGBT+ community. We are telling people that if you change your sex to better fit how you perceive yourself then you are less of a person because of it. This law takes the rights that we all deserve and only gives them to a certain set of people. “An ideal constitution contains properties sufficiently desirable so that it should be followed and incentives so that it is followed.” (“Fundamental Issues in Constitutional Reform”). Although this quote pertains to the constitution the same goes for laws, the laws should be sufficiently desirable so that it is followed, and incentives so people do follow it. Just like the constitution a law is “a contract among the citizens creating the state.” (“Fundamental Issues in Constitutional Reform”). The laws within North Carolina should be made for all those who reside in the state, we shouldn’t make laws that restrict one set of people and

Since a bathroom is just a bathroom and regardless the gender you should use the bathroom that makes you comfortable. A transgender female can use the girl’s bathroom without getting made fun of, and a transgender male can use the boy’s bathroom without getting beat up. Transgender’s shouldn't get beat up or made fun of for using the "wrong" bathroom. Even if you’re not comfortable with a transgender using the bathroom that they choose, you should still respect them because they didn’t do anything to hurt anyone. Now if was someone who was pretending to be trans, then that's a whole new story where they can get kicked out of the bathroom for being a total perve.