Transgenders In The United States

Within the last few decades the LGBT+ community has expanded tenfold, they have gained rights, sympathizers, and have become a force with power to achieve. This past year they have earned the right for same sex marriage, but the transgender community has suffered greatly with the levels of injustice and prejudice coming from the right wing. Up until the last decade or so there were only two open, accepted genders and within this time the gender identities have increased infinitely, Facebook.com has offered up 50 different gender identities including male, female, genderfluid, bigender, agender,and many others (NY Times). Transgendered individuals include many different gender subsets including some of the aforementioned examples like genderfluid,
The conservative parties are more so against the validation of transgender individuals and refer to their situation as ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ and that it is a problem that can be fixed. Religious radicals believe that they are sexual deviants and should have to use their birth gender. However, the liberal party believes that they should use the facilities of their identified gender. Surprisingly, republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, for once has a decent opinion, saying that transgenders should, “use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate” (Donald Trump). The major concerns of those who are against the rights of transgender is safety of women and children and the fact that it contradicts their religious beliefs. Both of these arguments are easily refuted because According to “…the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Human Rights Campaign, and the American Civil Liberties Union there is no statistical evidence of violence to justify the laws [against transgender use of bathrooms]” (USAToday). There has not been a single reported instance of violence caused by a transgender
Both of these concerns can easily be negated because according to “…the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Human Rights Campaign, and the American Civil Liberties Union there is no statistical evidence of violence to justify the laws [against transgender use of bathrooms]” (USAToday). This entire situation is unconstitutional, people came to our country for religious freedom which they have a right to by the Constitution in the first amendment article VI, but subjecting everyone to follow in the beliefs of the majority directly contradicts that. Each person has their right to follow whatever religion, or no religion, that they