In 2017, there have been many positive changes taken to support the LGBT community. A recent and heart breaking issue has come into the light recently. Many transgender men and women are feeling threatened and unsafe when deciding what bathroom they should go in. This issue being brought up in social media has uncovered a disgusting reaction from people who claim that the transgender community has alternative motives than just using a bathroom.
In Texas a transgender bathroom bill has come to reach the senate. This bill was created to restrict transgender people's access to public bathrooms, which is just another thing to add to the emotional struggle of transitioning. Conservative Americans have now pushed the line farther than they ever should have. Americans are now yet again found targeting a minority group.
The transgender society has been abandoned by all people who disagree with their decision to do something to their body, why should we add more to their life of struggle and pain? What a person identifies as should not restrict them from being able to use a bathroom. What are they supposed to do? Public urination? They are humans, not animals.
The obscene argument that conservatives have is that transgender people have transitioned just for the intention to rape or sexually assault women in public bathrooms. Transitioning takes thousands of dollars in plastic surgery, voice and emotional therapy, and hormones. Why would someone spend that much money, time, and emotional strain to target women in public bathrooms?
It is clinically proven that people who transition do not identify as the gender they were born with and just want to be accepted by society as the gender they want to identify with, and don't have other malicious motives. Even if someone who was transgender was caught in a situation like inflicting sexual assault, why should the entire transgender community be blamed for one person's actions. That is exactly like saying because one black man killed someone, every single black man in the world should be seen as a murderer.
The only way to resolve this hate and bigotry is to become more open minded and to support those who are different from you. The United States is full of so many beautiful people and cultures from all around the world, and our diversity should be celebrated and supported as a united nation. Bigotry and selfishness has become the most prominent issues in this petty argument. People the LGBT community need to be supported politically and socially, if they are not politically involved then how is it possible for the transgender community to be fighting this injustice towards them?
As an American woman, I do not feel threatened by any transgender person that I may encounter in or out of a public bathroom. Any woman should be welcome to feel safe and comfortable in any space they are in, but in order to do that, this unwelcoming society needs an alternative motive; to fight the hate they have caused to women who are stronger than any other.
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