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With the recent debate on transgender bathrooms, Facebook is flooded with varying opinions. Last week, I came across this image:

This was my response:

“Warning: rant.

Although I do not know if these exact statistics are correct, I do know that an estimated 25 percent of all college women will be sexually assaulted/raped during their time as an undergraduate. That's 1 in 4 women. That is me and three of my friends; one of us, statistically, will be violated before we graduate.

So no, I do not agree that you are protecting ANYONE by closing off bathrooms to someone who LITERALLY cannot see themselves as their biological gender, yet you want to call them liars.

You know who are liars? Universities. The government. Rapists. The institutions and people who control our daily lives and decide on what we should and should not be scared of.
Stop "standing" for something you can't possibly understand, and sure as hell don't "stand" for it in the name of Jesus, a loving, accepting, and forgiving human being.

I'm not scared of a woman who "used to be a man" in my bathroom. I am scared of a 19-year-old boy thinking he has the privilege to my body. You shouldn't be scared for your five year old in a bathroom. You should be scared to send your daughter to college.

The real issues are those that are brushed aside in protection of the majority, not the minority.

I am disgusted with my home. And the only thing that scares me is what little of power I have.”

Since this day I have received varying responses. Most were positive, explaining that I do have power—it is my voice.

Every day I see people on Twitter and Facebook complain. They say “stop getting so offended” and “sharing a photo with a rant on Facebook isn’t going to solve any problems.” These are usually the people with a “Make America Great Again” cover photo followed by an article by ChristianDaily.com on how our great nation is being separated from God.

Oh please, cut the crap.

Here are some facts, broken down to be easily understood for those of you who don’t care enough to read before you go on posting things that are affecting lives that have nothing to do with you.

Fact: I have never been raped or sexually assaulted.

Fact: I know several people who have been.

Fact: Some of these people have been drunk.

Fact: Many have not been.

Fact: Their perpetrators were either college age guys or grown men.

Fact: I have felt uncomfortable because of a boy’s presence, flirting, or touching.

Fact: It’s expected.

Fact: I do not personally know any transgender people, that I know of.

Fact: I have, however, had interactions with transgender people.

Fact: I have never felt unsafe around a transgender person.

Fact: Every night when I walk home from dinner, the library, or friend's room, I am on guard.

Fact: If it is dark out and there is guy behind me, I call a friend. Every. Single. Time.

Fact: Alcohol has not made me feel any more in danger than being sober.

Fact: I do not know of anyone victimized by a transgender person in a bathroom or a changing room, and I'm guessing neither do you.

Fact: I know of MANY cases where a pastor or a priest or a teacher has assaulted young boys and girls, and I'm guessing you do too.

Fact: Criminals are criminals.

Fact: The pedophile you assume is going to go into a woman’s restroom dressed up like a man is already in the men’s restroom with your little boys.

Fact: Criminals don’t follow laws.

Fact: There is a much higher chance that I will be raped and/or sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old boy tomorrow than by a transgender person. But I don’t see you posting about that.

Fact: There is a higher chance you are raising a straight male who will go off to college and rape and/or sexually assault someone than you raising a transgender person, let alone one that will be a rapist.

Fact: A transgender woman or man has more of a chance of being jumped in a bathroom by a straight man or woman than raping and/or sexually assaulting a man or woman, boy or girl.

SO PLEASE, for the love of God, stop pretending this is about safety. It’s not.

If you’re going to be prejudiced, just suck it up and own it.

I will never apologize for using my writing to preach my opinion. I will not tone down my language to prevent offending anyone, especially those who complain that "liberals are always getting offended" because a lot of the time, liberals are the only ones who care enough about the social issues in this country to try and make change... but that's for a different article.

I was wrong. Like many of my responders said, my VOICE is my power. I refuse to censor the truth or to keep scrolling. Someone has to make change, and I will continue to do all in my power to do so.

And for the record, you aren't carrying out acts of Jesus by spreading hate:

John 15:12 : “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you."

Again, that's for another article.

#GirlPower #YesAllWomen #EvenTransWomen