Sunday, April 30, 2017
Why federal need to keep Obama administration to transgender's right
Last May, the Obama administration directed schools across the country to allow transgender students to use bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities that match their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth. However, the Trump administration decided to roll back this protection for transgender students this year. I don’t think it is a good decision even though a lot of people thought the administration of Obama overreach their federal power, and in turn threatened non-transgender student’s right and privacy. In my opinion, this order from administration of Obama is just as a signal showing federal government’s attitude, which implies that federal is considering and protecting their rights. In truth, regardless of the administration, it is very likely that not every transgender student uses the bathroom of their identification because of embarrassment. Imagine it, when you are in a school restroom, and someone who identifies themselves as female, but is actually biologically male, walks into the female's restroom, how would you feel at first sight? I believe most people will be shocked at the first moment, and then we start to think about the reason like transgender or satyr. But before we could think of reason, that transgender student may have already see our fear, worry ,and puzzle. Both of us will have an uncomfortable moment, and this form of emotional abuse is practically unavoidable. Therefore, I believe the transgender students aren’t willing to the facilities that match their gender identity if they don’t look like their identity gender yet, even though they can go. So I support the Obama’s administration just because it works as a landmark for transgender's right, not because I welcome someone looking of opposite gender walking into my bathroom.
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Let me start off by saying that I am not opposed to any couple that chooses to love someone from a different sex, ethnicity, or age group. People should be free to live their lives as best they can and deserve the right to have their privacy respected. But please keep your personal lives to yourselves like everybody else does. I don’t mean to be insensitive but when do your rights interfere with mine? My colleague wrote a blog post on why he supported the bathroom bill, but I found that the cons outweigh the pros in this situation. President Obama passed a federal law, known as Title IX, that allows individuals to use the facilities of the gender that they identify with. So, a male could walk into any women’s restroom and no one could object on the chance that this could be a transgender person. I don’t want to go to the store and see a man walk into the women’s bathroom when I’m there with my daughters, not only will this confuse them, but it worries me. My concern isn’t of a transgender person attacking my daughters but of others who would take advantage of this law. There have been several cases of men walking into women’s bathrooms and taking pictures of young girls, and no one says anything unless they notice this because men technically have a right to be in there. I also do not think that every American should have to go out of their way to cater to a group of Americans that makes up about 0.3% of the nation. Which is why I think that President Trump did the right thing in rescinding Obama’s bathroom law.
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