I’m sure you have all heard the buzz concerning the issue of transgender individuals using the bathroom of their choice of gender. The controversy has sparked discussion and debate all over the news. The White House has even decided to impose their own two cents concerning what states should do about the matter. Now when it comes to most social issues, I live by the philosophy of “You do you and I’m gonna do me.” As a Christian, I try my best to live by my faith, but by no means do I intend to judge or impose my life decisions or my faith on individuals who disagree with me. We live in a free society, where the law’s only purpose is to safeguard the liberties of each individual. Law should work in favor of protecting individual rights not in evading it, which is why I disagree with the transgender bathrooms.
According to a study published by the Williams Institute in 2011, roughly 3.5 percent of adults in the U.S. are gay, lesbian, or bisexual and only .3 percent of the US population identify as transgendered. Now I understand that the study was done five years back, and the data is a rough estimate survey of 350,000 people, but the numbers tells a very clear narrative concerning the power the LGBT lobbying community has over policy enacted in the U.S. (p.s if you want to look it up here’s the link: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/u...). How is it, that such a small portion of the population control a majority of the policy influenced in this country? How is it that less then 1 percent of the 3.5 percent of Americans can influence the other roughly 96 percent of other American lives, I stand with the 96 percent (get the reference, Bernie fans?).
Now, I have nothing against the LGBT community, again I tend to not care about other people’s choices so long as they don’t affect me. The issue I have with transgender bathrooms is the affect of it on other people, on people like my little sister or my grandmother who would now not feel safe going to the restroom, who would feel violated knowing that a biological male may be in there with them. This law forces a small minority of individuals to disregard the opinions and feelings of a majority of Americans. So what’s the solution? Should we make a separate bathroom for transgenders only? How about we let individual private companies determine their own bathroom policies? so that does who do not want to participate won’t be forced by the government to do so!
The issue is at hand, is government is overstepping it’s reach. I’m all for Liberty and Freedom, but when you try to enact laws that forces people into doing things that they don’t want, that’s not freedom, that’s tyranny. Those in the LGBT community have been fighting for years to gain equality under the law so that the members of their community can receive the freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution.
The LGBT community has endured hell over the years, and progress has been made in today’s age, however the transgender bathroom laws is not a matter of civil rights, it is a matter of respect for other individuals in this country. It is a matter of respect for the women who have no desire for any biological men to use the same facilities intended for biological women. It is a matter of respect for the millions of Americans who view the bathroom as a space of vulnerability, which if these laws are enacted, can serve as a space where individuals of malicious intent can use to inflict harm. It is a matter of liberty versus subversion in a free society. These are my two cents on the issue, and I pray all who read this to have a blessed day.
