Bathroom Law Pros And Cons

In recent years, the United States has been struggling to pass transgender rights, and Texas is of no means of an exception. Some of these include bathroom rights. In Texas, the bathroom bill passed through the Texas Senate, but did not survive through the Texas House, resulting in a temporary halt. Even now, the government still question the rights. It is suggested that Texas may need a bathroom bill, but would probably end in some kind of financial consequence, along with many Americans losing their jobs. The Texas Bathroom Bill, otherwise known as SB6, could also fuel disunity within our nation and cause several riots.

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.

The biggest component fueling the backlash is religion and the rights bestowed onto it via the constitution and peoples own religious beliefs regarding same-sex marriage. Both at a state and private level, opponents to the decision reached would knowingly deny service to same sex couples due to religious beliefs. Wolf (2016) stated that “Some states, led by Mississippi and North Carolina, have enacted laws intended to protect those who deny services to gays, lesbians, bisexuals or transgender people because of religious objections. Tennessee and Kansas have passed less sweeping religious exemption laws.” Some states who oppose the ruling believe that they have a fundamental right to enact laws protecting those who deny service to people who share beliefs that go against the religion’s beliefs of the service provider. They believe that the freedom of religion deems their actions in the right, but they are sadly mistaken. Although I highly support all rights within the constitution I can clearly see that the freedom of religion doesn’t grant people the right to segregate others who simply hold different beliefs than others who follow religious beliefs that sate otherwise. The freedom of religion protects one’s ability to practice their religion for themselves, not to force it on others whom share differing opinions than that of their religion. Universities and colleges have also been a topic post ruling, before the ruling, universities were implementing rules to house couples but not homosexual couples in their housing programs. When discussing how this ruling will affect not only religious sanctions whom marry people, but also religious affiliated universities, Masci (2015) asks “And what about a religiously affiliated institution, like a university, that offers married heterosexual students housing but refuses such accommodation for married gay and lesbian students?” the ruling by the Supreme Court, in my

The House Bill 2.0 has hurt and changed a lot of people’s lives in North Carolina. In my opinion, it is a depressing sell out. This bill doesn’t let people be who they are. It’s already bad enough people have to hide in their truths. When Obama passed the law, legalizing gay marriage, it gave so many people hope. Many people were able to be comfortable in their own skin. Not only did North Carolina lose a great deal of business, they lost events that most of the public wanted to attend. It’s an unnecessary Bill. This bill discriminates against so many people. Nothing has been resolved by passing this bill. A great deal of many has been lost. According to this article, North Carolina lost NCAA and the All-star game. The All- star game was the

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

It hallucinated some grave public danger in transgender people’s using public restrooms that correspond to their gender identity, banned them from doing so, and then went even further, nullifying local ordinances that outlawed employment and housing discrimination against gay and lesbian people.

The state of Mississippi just recently signed into law that allows businesses to deny service to gay couples. This bill called HB 1523 signed into law by Governor Phil Bryant is being called the religious freedom bill. The bill now signed into law has received major backlash from the entire United States during the almost two weeks that it has been enacted. The Governor has made statements saying that the bill was signed into law to protect religious beliefs and the convictions held by the individuals associated with private businesses and organizations. Many major organizations including the federal government have spoken up about this bill claiming to stop federal funding to not supporting that state by closing stores and businesses within the state. Nothing like this has ever been enacted in this country and the harsh attacks on the Governor and state of Mississippi have not stopped. Many LGBT organizations along with civil rights unions have called the bill discriminatory to the LGBT community in the state of Mississippi. The bill allows private businesses to withhold service from the gay community due to religious beliefs, which is from a moral standpoint wrong because sexual orientation is a part of a person that is instilled into someone and is on the same level as racial discrimination. Governor Phil Bryant and the state of Mississippi has no right to say that people should be allowed to be discriminated towards because of their sexual orientation it goes

Mississippi lawmakers on Tuesday called for the repeal of a controversial new law that allows businesses to refuse service to gay people based on religious objection. Ellen DeGeneres called it "the definition of discrimination," while singer Bryan Adams canceled his upcoming show in the state to show his opposition to the law.” (Reilly, 2016). Misguided people are being driven by the nose by tricky "Christian" pioneers and legislators who have a personal stake in the matter of ensuring that their assemblies and their constituents remain profoundly and honestly perplexed of the myth of the "gay person plan." Know this: If the LGBTQ people group has any sort of motivation of all, it is achieving the same essential human rights that other people appreciates. That is all. That is the plan. Try not to fall for some other clarification of it. Gay people are not after your children. They are not attempting to change over you or change you. They are not worried with being comprehended as much as they are worried with being dealt with like some other person has the privilege to be dealt with. On the off chance that you trust that any gathering

“If business owners in Arizona wanted to deny service to gays, they could do so in most of the state under current law.” In the same respect, people in support feel that even if a business were to deny service to a person, there would be plenty of other businesses willing to serve them. Another common belief is that these laws are similar to Jim Crow laws, and have pre civil right movement ideals. Supporters of the bill argue that Jim Crow laws are forced discrimination laws, and the new laws are nothing more than the ability to deny to violate religious beliefs. They believe that religious practices and discrimination do not go hand in hand with one another, and that the ability to practice your religion freely is the most important aspect at play.

Getting justice for the transgender has been a problem in the United States of America. But final the law policy that includes gender identity or expression has been approved. For examples: the restroom law was finally model by The Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in June 3, 2015. The law requires that all employees under its jurisdiction should provide employees with sanitary and valuable toilet facilities so that the employee will not suffer adverse effects that results murdering transgender. The purpose for setting this law is for the protection of transgender employees safety and to have a healthy working environment. They also went ahead and give an examples in the state where this law has been established such as Colorado,

The two most sweeping anti-LGBT bills to become law, HB 1523 in Mississippi and HB 2 in North Carolina, we promptly challenged in court. In North Carolina, the passage of HB 2 has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue to the state, costly litigation, and former Gov. Pat McCrory’s defeat at the ballot in November.

Jurisdiction of power between the Federal government’s power and state’s rights is a continuous struggle throughout our nation’s history. A current case which affects the LGBT community wherein states have enacted discriminatory laws that infringe upon the rights of the LGBT community. In North Carolina the House Bill 2 has been a major cause of controversy amongst many residents of North Carolina as well as the United States as a whole. From the constitutional standpoint, North Carolina has overstepped their boundaries and its constituents are calling for a repeal.

In a hypothetical scenario in which same-sex marriage and religious freedom are brought to a legal confrontation, the constitutional rights of both plaintiffs and defendants bring forth a nationwide debate on civil liberties and rights—yet it is easy to mistake one for the other. In this scenario, after lesbian couples Donna and Theodora married in the state of Massachusetts instead of North Carolina (Theodora’s home state), both decided to move to North Carolina in the city of Clinton where they found jobs to financially support one another. However, when both couples contacted a local bakery shop for a wedding cake, they were denied by the shop’s owner who cited North Carolina’s recently enacted law that allows businesses to refuse the patronage of homosexuals when the business owners themselves have a religious objection to homosexuality and same-sex marriage. When Donna and Theodora tried to hire a photographer for when they planned to recite their wedding vows, the photographer refused—with the issue of religious freedom again been cited in her arguments. Although this initially didn’t come as a surprise to Donna and Theodora, Donna was more concerned about the maid of honor, Bernice, a transgender person being able to use the women’s restroom. Because Bernice was born male, under the rules of House Bill 2—more formally addressed as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act (aka “the bathroom bill”)—that would exclude Bernice from using the bathroom of her choice

According to the article,“the Justice Department on Monday sued North Carolina over a law that it said violates the rights of transgender people” (Tucker 1). Some states believe discriminating transgenders will help improve the issue where transgenders have to use any public accommodations based on their birth gender, but by creating a law against them is only making the situation worse for everyone. This law states, “transgender people must use public bathrooms, showers, and changing rooms that corresponds to the sex on their birth certificate. The administration has said the law violates the civil rights act” (Blad 2). Creating this law shows how some states may not care about the rights of a transgender, giving a cis person the idea that they could do whatever they want because authorities are going against them as well. Obviously, if a law is violating the basic rights of a human being, it should be repealed. This law defies the Equality Act, which protects the ban on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodations,

In the United States, separation of male and female bathrooms is normal. Transgender bathroom access has become a very crucial and controversial issue all across the country. Since 2015 when the United States Supreme Court decided to nationally expand marriage equality rights, the transgender rights movement has become a big deal. According to Nytimes.com “About 1.4 million adults in the United States identify as transgender according to an analysis based on federal and state data.” So what does being transgender really mean? It means someone whose gender contradicts the gender they were when they were born. However it can be difficult for some people to understand. They may think transgender is the same thing as being transsexual, which is someone who is born as a male and transfers into a female or vise versa by either taking large doses of hormones or having surgical procedures. Several people currently think that different sexes of gender no longer matter. “According to the poll conducted by CBS News, 59 percent of Americans believe that transgender individuals should use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender they were assigned at birth, while 26 percent are comfortable with self-determination when it comes to choosing which bathroom to use.” (www.huffingtonpost.com). Transgender people should use multi-occupancy bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing facilities that correspond with their gender at birth.