Transgender Safety Research Paper

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Keeping Everyone Safe A Sicilian proverb says “Who rids himself of his own freedom, always finds himself with worry and pain.” Freedom always come with a price, no matter what kind of freedom an individual chooses, they will suffer pressure or consequences of their choices by the society. Creating policies to allow a transgender person to use bathroom and other facilities based on their gender choices will not change the fact that they feel different or discriminated. They will be more exposed to discrimination than to use a unisex bathroom. Transgender person should not be allowed to use the restroom or locker room according of the gender in which they feel to belong. The society and authorities should consider the transgender …show more content…
In spite of their safety, the biological factors are relevant. Even though, a transgender person feel to be the opposite sex, they still have their physical appearance identified at birth. To illustrate, on the locker room, where the high school girls were in the shower or changing their clothes, how these girls will react seeing a nude boy who identified himself as a girl? Physically, it is what it is, a male! On the other hand, the transition of a transgender person is processual, in which they change completely their psychological behavior toward to the opposite sex. Accidentally, it is possible that a transgender person can engage their male genitalia when they were nude with a group of girls on the locker room. Indeed, the biological factor that a transgender person cannot denied their physical …show more content…
Conceding transgender person to use bathroom or other facilities will open a tremendous door for the possibility of child sexual abuse. Predators are experts to find an opportunity to attack their victims. In the most cases of rape, the victims do not tell to their parents that they were rape, they feel shame. Meanwhile, who will protect the little girls of someone that pretends be a transgender to have access to the girl bathroom or locker room? In fact, the Children’s Assessment Center reported that approximately 70% of reported sexual assaults occur to children 17 and under (Snyder, 2000). Also, youths age between 12 to 17 years-old have higher risk of 2.3 times of sexual assault victimization than adults (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000) (cachouston.org). Surely, the children sexual abuse will increase dramatically. The worst fact is when parents realized that their children were sexual abuse by predators, it is too late. Moreover, only a few predators are in the jail because the most cases of child sexual abuse the victims cannot identify them or do not have evidences to prove who was the abuser. For this reason, creating policies to enforce the rights of a transgender over the safety of others is incoherent and extreme