The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender) community does not only face adversity in the public's eyes, but also at places where you should feel the most welcomed like home and school. Not only is having interest in the same sex becoming an issue for some, but also having legal procedures that allow you to openly express who you are as a person. Rather it's being born a male with females intentions or vice versa, this has became a public issue made towards both male and females in public restrooms. Discussions between states, former President Obama, current President Trump, school systems and people concerned about inequalities, have debated that it would be best for everyone to use the restroom according to gender at birth, meanwhile,
In question one of quiz two we were asked to review chapter seven and ten and focus on the adversity that Coach Mike Krzyzewski while coaching. After the review of these chapters, he discussed many occasions on the adversity that he faced, but the most critical one was the injury of Bobby Hurley with a broken foot on January 1992 . This was a very exceptional feet due to the fact that they were facing Shaq. The way that Coach K overcame this adversity is by putting Grant Hill at the point grade position for the first time, he also had Christian Laettner how show the team that he had the heart to face a player that was much bigger that himself such as Shaq. I agree with his approach on putting Grant Hill at the point position, because he was
After listening to “Beyond Bathrooms: The Battle Over Transgender Rights” a discussion on the “1A Radio Station” it is present that the debate over gender expression and which bathroom to use is still being fought. The radio show displays four guest (Grace Dolan-Sandino a transgender female and 11th grader at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC, Peyton Chapman the Principal of Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, Matt Sharp Senior counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal organization, and Tanya Washington a Professor of law at Georgia State University.) who all share their opinions on the topic of whether transgender people should be able to use the bathroom that matches their gender expression or not, discuss possible solutions to the problem, and share their own personal experiences on the topic. After listening to the discussions in the program I will have to agree with the side that allows people who
Our world is founded on good and evil. Humans have grabbed hold of these abstract principles, interpreted them into foundations of government and religion. But there is still a powerful need to understand good and evil, to know whether our world is controlled by gods and goddess, animals, the sun, every single human on earth or nothing at all. With so many ways to interpret our existence, there are billions of ideas, ranging from the inanely simple to the thoroughly convoluted. But Robert Frost’s theory, published in the early 1900s, remains one of the most compelling. In his poem Design, Frost illustrates the contrast between evil the good in nature, and offers his own commentary as to who is truly in control.
More and more kids and teens are realizing that, they are not who they want to be. Meaning that, they want to, or have already changed their gender identity. This doesn’t seem like the problem, but these kids, teens, and even adults don't have the rights we have on a regular daily bases. According to Discovery Education, it says that, these kids and teens aren’t allowed to use the bathroom of the gender they choose to be. This is a big problem throughout the United States, especially in elementary, middle, and high schools. The government also took away the law stating that transgender people, are to use
Throughout the years, the LGBT community has put forth tremendous effort to gain rights and recognition in the United States. Yet there have been numerous laws that have discriminated and made them feel unequal. LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered. Many people in the community have a hard time accepting who they truly are in terms of sexual orientation or gender identity. Coming out is challenging enough on its own, and laws and regulations that discriminate against those who only wish to live freely can make it hard for them to do so. Living in the time period we do, we have seen many changes in the right direction as far as having equal rights for all, but it has not always been this way. There have been many movements and actions the LGBT community has taken over the years to get to where we are today. There have also been many laws and regulations specifically targeted at same-sex and transgendered individuals, some of which that still apply today.
William Shakespeare is remembered as one of the greatest writers of the English language. He basically invented his own way of speaking through plays, poems, and novels. Those works of his still last to this day- over 400 years after his passing. And I can prove that- the past two years (my eighth and ninth grade years of school) I have read two of Shakespeare's world-renowned plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream last year and this year Macbeth. Both plays have relatable themes for everyone, which is why those plays are still popular today This year, during our reading of Macbeth, our teacher, Mrs. Minto asked us to track a theme throughout the play. At first, I was stumped, not knowing which theme to track. But after a while, it became obvious
People of all ages have tried to speak out on the discrimination that they face on a regular. From students who have bullied in school by both fellow students and teacher to adults who have been denied jobs and homes solely because they are LGBT. “Some transgender students have become activists on this issue, saying they face harassment and discomfort if forced to use bathrooms on the basis of the sex on their birth certificate.” This same issue came up in recent news because of the “bathroom bill.” Although this is not the real name of the bill it is a common name used for any bill that seeks to regulate access to public spaces based on the individuals sex
Coming out as a transgender, identifying with a gender expression that differs from the assigned sex, has proven to be quite difficult through the ages. While the acceptance of transgender people has grown significantly higher throughout the years, people’s stance on them are still quite divided, and the uphill battle for transgender rights has proven this. Just giving transgenders the right to simply go to the bathroom they identify with has shown to be controversial according to the TIME cover Battle of the Bathroom. The TIME magazine makes sure to note the problem defiantly “far more than public facilities” (Scherer par. 9). Transgender rights are a problem that Jamison Green, president for World Professional Association for Transgender Health, thoroughly addresses in a report written by Alan Greenblatt for CQ Researcher. Jamison Green’s specific purpose in that report is to justify why transgender people deserve basic human rights like everybody else, as shown in society, through his use of facts, qualifiers, figurative language, counterarguments, and appeals to logic and values.
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.
On May 31st, 2016 an article was written about the use of restrooms for transgender people. This article is another example of not only the amount of discrimination seen in example one, but also about the amount of segregation constantly occurring in the United States to this day. Transgender people are being saw differently from others when they only want to fit in and be themselves. They can only use restrooms according to the sex they were born with. Some places are even starting to make “uni-sex” restrooms. They are not aloud to use the restrooms depending on the gender they changed to. Jim Crows Laws that kept blacks and whites segregated relates to this problem as well. Transgender people are being segregated from everyone else because
For many decades, the LGBT community has been bashed and mistreated for simply expressing themselves and their same love. Now a bathroom bill that goes against people of the LGBT community who identify themselves as their preferred gender are not to use the bathroom of their preferred gender is in the works. I cannot say that I fully agree with this bill, but I also do not completely disagree with the proposed bill, I guess you can say I am on both sides of it. With my argument, I do not intend to alienate the LGBT community at all, they have my full support on their decisions, but when discussing this bill, there is so much that can go wrong. Which is why I believe that the proposal of the bill should be seen from more than one perspective
According to Anemona Hartcollis in "Bathroom Debate Turns Personal in Small Town." published to the New York Times on 09/13/2016, “''As we move forward as a community, there has to be compassion on both sides,'' Ms. Brown said.” Many people are accepting of the LGBT community, it just takes some time for some people to get used to change. This is the direction the future is headed, and some people need to get over their bigoted ways and accept their peers for who they are. This article gathered information supplied by a trans student in a small town school and told the story of their school making progressive change. As many small towns are, we can assume it was rural and had a conservative majority. This political classification typically strongly opposes legislation giving “queer” people more rights. It seems that many people were uncomfortable with sharing restrooms with transgender students at first, but once people realize they mean no harm, they just want to live as they are, it poses no issue. In the article there were strong opposers to the bathroom changes, but life went on as usual. Early in 2016 when the Obama Administration threatened a loss of federal funding to public schools that did not conform to the new guidelines regarding discrimination and transgendered students. The new treatment guidelines featured the the mandation of equal treatment to students identifying
Mr. Gronk was a mysterious old man. He kept to himself in his large house at the end of the cul-de-sac. He supposedly used to be a lively helper around the community; helping with the blood drives, collecting food for the poor, and other things of that nature. Once his wife disappeared, he simply avoided leaving his house. Some of the neighbors would say that they would see him walking around the neighborhood in the early hours of the morning, just looking around in the yards of his neighbors. Personally, I have never seen him doing that because I have a strict cirpphue of 11 o’clock.
Compromise has to come in to settle any good argument. A great compromise for this issue could be to have more gender neutral/family bathrooms separate from birth certificate-sex matching bathrooms to settle the insecurities and insufficient privacy and protect feelings of both trans and non-transgender people. In an article about an experiment conducted, it showed that transgender people preferred using gender neutral single-stalled restrooms prior to, during, and, for some transgender people, after transition. “One might say that there is just as much risk in divided bathrooms as there are in gender neutral bathrooms but this is not the case. This is due to the fact that 7 out of every 10 pedophiles and heterosexual are heterosexual therefore there is only 3 out of every 10 chance that a pedophile will make a move in a gender-neutral restroom. Yet, in a gender-neutral restroom this 3 out of 10 chance turns into 10 out of 10 chance due to the fact that every gender will be in one bathroom.” Without a compromise like this, both sides will feel discriminated against or discomfort. One will feel denied the right to enter into the bathroom that identifies with their gender and the other will feel denied the right of protection and privacy.
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