Recently the Supreme Court is dealing with a case of
transgender issues of public bathrooms. With a Virginia high school student
Gavin Grimm addressing the issue. He was born a female but, has gone under
hormone therapy and changed his name. He was allowed to use the boy’s restroom
until 2014 with the school's board petition making him go to the unisex
bathroom in the nurse's office. "I continue to suffer daily because of the
school board's decision to make my bathroom use a matter of public debate. I
feel the humiliation every time I need to use the restroom and every minute I
try to 'hold it' in the hopes of avoiding the long walk to the nurse's office.
And the humiliation can come when I least expect it." he says. As
many of these cases have a big variation of affect, as schools in North Carolina,
people have to go the restroom from what’s on their birth certificate. But, the
U.S. Department of Justice sued the state as it violated the civil rights act
and Violence against Women’s Act.
Analysis:
This article written by Gabrielle Levy on October/28/2016
talks about this issues that transgender people have to face on a day-to-day
basis. This affects us and our generation of people and how to face these
issues. With more and more people being free and being comfortable in their own
skin it’s come to the problem of public bathrooms. Most of the arguments are
torn into two, with one side looking at their genitals and the others looking
at their personality and looks. For me, I don't care, whatever makes them
happy, I'm okay with it. I just don't see the big issue for it to go all the
way to the Supreme Court. I guess, some people are difficult of change and
that's why it takes a while to change something. This article can relate to the
Civil Rights movement with the separation on blacks to whites. With different
schools, water fountains, and bathrooms everyone needs to have equal rights.
With the movement to stop the difference of skin color, sex, religion, and race
is it a difficult problem to overcome but, we have already gotten so far, we
can still do a lot more.
http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2016-10-28/supreme-court-to-hear-transgender-bathroom-case
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