Over the past year, the world has seen a huge improvement in the treatment of the transgender community. While this is an amazing advancement for equality, it comes with a price.

Today, there is a fine line that society must tip-toe around in order to abstain from offending others. While I believe that the transgender community deserves the right to live a life filled with the same opportunities that everyone else is able to achieve, I do not agree with the risk at which this may sometimes come.

Creating laws that allow transgenders to utilize the same restrooms as both men and women is both harmful and digressive. Giving a male the privilege of using the same facility as a female allows for the possibility of sexual assault and rape.

The women that this affects the most are the victims of sexual assault and rape. How can society let this occur before fixing the rape culture that America has not yet been able to keep under control?

Before creating laws that keep transgenders from becoming offended because they have to use a bathroom titled by the gender they were born with, we need to create laws that protect the rights of victims of sexual assault. I am worried that society is more concerned about offending a small portion of the population, rather than protecting half of the population from the possibility of having to use a restroom with a potential sex offender.

I think there will be women and girls of all ages who will be afraid to use public restrooms if Transgender Bathroom Laws are put into place. We are putting our girls at risk by allowing women and men to use the same bathrooms. These laws give sexual predators perfect opportunities to harm a woman who is simply attempting to use a public restroom.

This past year, Johanna Wolf, a transgender woman from Seattle was seeking the right to use a women's locker room in the state of Washington through a post she made on Facebook. Later, it was discovered that she was actually a registered sex offender.

Of course, not every transgender is a sex offender; but in the case of Johanna Wolf, women are being put at an incredible risk of sexual assault and rape. Learn more here about Wolf and other cases of impersonations of transgender women.

In order to keep women and children from becoming victims of sexual assault and rape, we must stop laws of gender-neutral bathrooms from coming into place. What has society become when we put not offending certain individuals above the protection of women everywhere?

Women must live in fear of sex offenders and predators when simply walking down the street. Imagine a world where they must also share a restroom with those same sexual offenders. We must not let women live in fear of sexual assault and rape any more than they already do by creating gender-neutral bathrooms.