Some might argue for having transgender bathrooms in schools (to be), but there are some reasons why having transgender bathrooms should not be. Whether we begin with or end with religion it influences our take on this situation. Or maybe my argument about bullying and increased risk of being bullied in a bathroom might tug at you more. And for some of you it. might be all about the money, but here I will make 3 points supporting why transgender bathrooms should not be. "The anxiety isn't men in women's bathrooms, it's about masculinity in the wrong place," said Katherine Franke, director of Columbia law schools center for gender and sexuality law (Dastagir)."It's portrayed as a threat to women, but on a much deeper level, it's about what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman." The above statement might be in reference to our beginnings: "God made both man and women in his image. Neither man nor woman is made more in the image of God than the other. From the beginning of the bible places both man and women at …show more content…
A man is a man no matter how he dresses, so letting him into the women's bathroom is absurd. 2. Male perverts and pedophiles disguised as women (faux transgender people) will troll women's bathrooms and sexually assault our wives and daughters" (Lee). We could argue that one might be less critically bullied by using a transgender bathroom or be bullied more by using a bathroom with others of a different gender. For example girls bulling a transgender male using the same restroom as them. School age children already often feel they are up against the world suffering endless bullying. Gender identity only further complicates the chances of being bullied but to put male children with females in a bathroom or female children in a bathroom full of males only puts those children at greater risk of being bullied by their peers. And scarier, being bullied behind heavy wooden bathroom doors out of sight of teachers and school
Coming to a Realization I never really thought about genders, equality, and etc. But after taking a few classes of Women’s Studies I’ve become a little observant about my surroundings. To think that so many mens, womens, and childrens that has to deal with such ordeal is mind boggling. After living in Bridgeport or what people call it “the hood” I never really would expect so much inequality. My eyes are more open to our home connecticut of all the gender biased in our own community.
The American Family Association (AFA) has listed down 10 cases of crimes targeting girls to show the danger to women and children presented by Target’s transgender bathroom policy. On Thursday, AFA president Tim Wildmon released a statement highlighting the growing evidence of the danger brought about by Target’s policy to let men use women’s restrooms and dressing rooms in its outlets. While Target has justified its decision to implement the transgender bathroom policy to make everyone feel welcome, Wildmon insists that the rule only gives sexual predators access to victims, The Christian Post relays. “Clearly, Target 's dangerous policy poses a threat to wives and daughters,” said Wildmon.
It brings up the complication that if someone is not Trans and feels uncomfortable in their own restroom their discomfort is to be ignored. The biggest problem with this is that “If any of this makes a child uncomfortable, the administration's response is "too bad." According to the letter, a transgender student's discomfort must always be accommodated, but if another student feels similar discomfort, those concerns must always be ignored because the administration has pre-emptively deemed all "others' discomfort" unjustified. When a young female says she feels uncomfortable or even unsafe sharing bathrooms and locker rooms with males, she isn't being discriminatory, and her complaints shouldn't be dismissed as veiled bigotry by the same Education Department that has preached to schools the importance of creating environments where students feel secure. ”(Pruitt)
Transgender people should be allowed to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with due to the facts that it is safer for everyone, transgender-inclusive policies are not a safety risk, harassing and assaulting are not problems. In a letter by, the ninth grader, Skye Thomson says he gets dirty looks entering the women’s bathroom at his school due to the fact that he’s a transgender boy-born a female and identifies as a male-which makes him feel very uncomfortable and unsafe. Schools are a place for students to feel safe. Yet for transgender people, it’s a completely different story. Going to school is a nightmare due to the consent name-calling, harassment, and physical assault.
Physical and sexual abuse, whether it is reported or not, is a problem that many prisoners face, however, transgender prisoners are key victims of this violence. Transgender inmates are 13 times more likely to be a victim of sexual assault/rape than non-transgender inmates (Brown 2014). Allen J. Beck (2014) reports an alarming result of 39.3 percent of sexual victimisation among transgender inmates in state & federal prisons, along with, 26.8 percent in local jails throughout America. For transgender women, most of them are incarcerated in male prisons based on their gender at birth. This raises significant risks of sexual assault/rape from the other male inmates as they present as a woman with feminie characteristics and demeanour.
All over the world, Transgender and others under the LGBTQ umbrella for gender identity encounter a large amount of controversy. I agree with this statement because of the inequality between transgendered individuals and cisgendered individuals. Bullying is a huge problem when it comes to Gender Identity; schools, workplaces and even public areas aren’t safe for queer people anymore due to the distaste that some people feel towards these individuals. In some states, schools and workplaces are banning bathrooms for these individuals and are forcing them to use the appropriate bathroom, or the bathroom of their birth gender. The military used to be a sanctuary for transgendered individuals because gender doesn’t necessarily matter in the military
In 1790, Judith Sargent Murray, a writer and publisher from Massachusetts, published an argument regarding the equality of sexes. In Murray’s opening sentence she states, “our souls are by nature equal to yours.” The statement provides insight of the purpose of her argument, that men and women are equal. The men and women breathe the same breath of God, and that neither is lower than the other. Murray says that from her observations there are “as many females as males, by the mere force of natural powers, have merited the crown of applause.”
Passing transgender laws would create unnecessary conflict between state laws and education laws. It would support the idea of discrimination against transgender people. In fact, the laws would be ineffective because police cannot enforce the law without harming possibly innocent bystanders. In other words,lawmakers should not pass laws forcing transgender people to use the
The story begins with ‘creation’, the god Zeus instructed Prometheus to create man, and Epimetheus to create all animals. By giving almost all the ‘gifts’ (such as swiftness and courage) to the animals, there was none left to man but that of to stand upright like the gods. In the Bible, this is represented by God creating man in His image. So, Prometheus, despites Zeus’ disapproval, gave man fire. Enraged, Zeus decided to create the greatest punishment for man, which was the creation of the first woman.
Where, in the unwritten rules of the universe, does it say that men do not think before they act? You accuse us of indifference and ignorance, but yourself refuse to acknowledge the constraints society has slapped on us. Which man- which God-fearing man- would dare to make a remark about women when one of them is present? Times are such, that men have to actually think harder than women before they speak- lest anything they say in jest be taken too much to heart by their female counterparts- for example, “How can anyone have a relationship to food?” As it incidentally happens, that is also a question I seek to
Throughout the bible, woman’s role in fulfilling
I am replying to question one. This is a very intresting topic that I have never heard of. I never even thought about what bathroom transgernder men and women should use. In my opinion, they should use the bathroom of their new gender that they have transformed into becuase that is who and what they are now. It should not be that confusing to children if they look like the gender they have transformed into.
Transgender people challenge the binary and refuse to conform to the norms. Kimberly Tauches writes in her essay “Transgendering” that “transgender is an umbrella term that is used to describe a diverse group of people who intentionally ‘mismatch’ their sex and their gender identity or behavior” (Tauches 173). This calls into account the previous argument on what difference should it make to feminism whether gender differences are natural or socially constructed. Everything in our culture has been gendered, from clothing, films, furniture, and even cars, this is due to the binary categories. “A person is seen as fitting into one and only one gender, masculine or feminine, but never both masculine and feminine.
Should transgender bathrooms exist? The topic is constantly asked among modern day society whether there should be a specific bathroom meant for transgender people, since not many people understand what transgender people go through they are not hesitant to put their own opinions on the matter. Giving reasons based on bias opinions, some examples of this is when people see a person who looks like a woman, and ends up going to the men’s bathroom, people are quick to judge saying what is this woman doing in the men’s restroom when the women is also a man. Confronting issues like this can be hard on transgender people because they have the hardest time finding out who they are, they might have both parts from men and female, leading to the decisions they must choose which one are they. Are
If you look closely you can see that it even happens in our own school. Sam Behm is a perfect example of this he came out as transgender about one year ago and has experienced some backlash ever since. He knows first hand what 's it’s like to not feel comfortable going into the bathroom that corresponds with his gender identity because others don 't agree. Sam said “Obviously I can’t go into the men’s bathroom because people would be like what are you doing in here?” Sadly, he also said “I don’t want to get any backlash or anything for going in the men’s.”