Target Supports Transgender, But I Will Not
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Target Supports Transgender, But I Will Not

Don't force your beliefs, and I won't force mine.

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Target Supports Transgender, But I Will Not
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Transgender bathroom options have been all over the news lately. Most people protest against this only because they do not agree with other people's choices, but that is not why I am utterly disgusted by the idea of getting to pick the restroom a person uses.

Bathrooms are separate for a reason. They were created that way for people with different body parts to have the privacy they need when doing their business. For some reason, many stores are considering, and in Target's case—have already decided, to implement the choice of which restroom to use. This is basically condoning inappropriate sexual behavior.

Let me explain: when a mother sends her young daughter or son into the bathroom, she is already worried that someone will be ready to grab the child and run. Allowing a person to choose which restroom to only makes the chance of a sicko snatching up a child. If people think this will not give perverts better access to a child, they're wrong. When you approve of anyone using either restroom, you open the door to endless consequences. Go to the restroom for the parts that you have, not the ones you "identify" with. Restrooms don't dictate what you "identify" as they simply separate the reproductive parts with which people were born. It's not even necessarily the "real" transgenders that scare me; it's the disgusting people that pretend just to get into the bathroom with the opposite sex.

My other big problem with this is the fact that the LGBT community is always preaching to others not to force people into their beliefs. Isn't that exactly what Target and other stores that are changing their restroom policy are doing? I do not, by any means, hate or even dislike people who are a part of the LGBT community. I have friends that are even part of it. I don't force my beliefs onto anyone, and Target is basically forcing me to go to the restroom with someone that I am not comfortable with.

People are always so worried about offending people and hurting their feelings, well, what if I said that this new bathroom plan offends me? That probably wouldn't be okay, would it? I would most likely be considered a hater. Those of us who do not agree with this lifestyle should not be forced to take part in it in the restroom. That's exactly like me forcing someone into the Christianity beliefs that I have, of a man and a woman being the only combination of a valid marriage.

I don't force my beliefs on anyone, and I surely don't expect or want anyone's beliefs forced onto me.

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