10 Matching Annotations
  1. Mar 2017
    1. I don’t think everybody is a hateful bigot. But I wish they would go out and meet some trans people and understand that we’re spectacular, and not a threat, and I wish politicians would leave our children alone

      Insulting people in general is just wrong and makes you worse than the people who don't understand you. It is the innocent transgenders that people are worried about. It is the ones that have already let everyone know that they are dangerous. Such as, the one I stated before who abused woman or the one who wasn't honest to her boyfriend and unfortauntely had to deal with the consequences. No one wants to think about the constant "what if" senarios and bad events happen.

      I agree that politicians and everyone else should stay out of transgenders business but at the same time transgenders need to take responsibility of their own. In addition, not everyone can be a victim; where there are victims there are predators lurking beneath them. You just have to be careful in this harsh world.

    2. Nobody feels comfortable getting naked in front of strangers—especially teenagers.

      This very important to me. This article is about trangender having the ability to asscociate themselves with female or male restrooms, lockers, showers, etc... However, what is odd is that regardless of the room they are in there are stalls to seperate them from the gender they are trying to assocaite themselves with, so what is the point? People are fight over who can use the what bathroom. Blacks didn't have a choice, if their bathroom wasn't represent then they couldn't work or go to school there....

    3. Some opponents of gay marriage—largely conservative Christians—fear being legally compelled to participate in these ceremonies, with which they disagree.

      Technicall, marriage is a ceromony the joints a man and a woman together and the vows are written as such. These are religious values and is different per religion. However, if a couple decides to marry anyone can joint them together: a father, close friend, a neighbor, etc... This is because you don't go to a church to get your marriage papers but you go to the court house before or after your wedding. A pastor, minster, or what not is just for that religions values and nothing more.

    4. beyond simple hatred.

      I do not believe that transgender are hated to the point it actually effeects them. Being hated is being enslaved for hundreds of years, ripped from your country, forced to build someone else's country, being raped, tortured, killed for fun, etc... Transgenders are simply hated by a few extreme christains. Slavery use to be a life style. Transgenders will never reach that level of hatred and that is for the good.

    5. making sure transgender people can move through the world free from violence and harassment

      Being harassed isn't a fun adventure. I, being mixed, am use to being bullied by white and black cultures for something that I can't even control. However, for transgenders, they make the choice to go through multiple procedures and take many hormones to change their body to their preference. This does cause problems in society because most don't understand why they have to go to the extremes to change their whole entire physical appearance. The same how blacks were ridicule for their skin color, except big companies enjoyed making money off of bleaching techniques and changing the appearance of black people.

      However, no matter the reason no one deserves to be harrassed at the same time flaunting something that you are not is wrong. For an example, a transgender was nearly beaten to death by her boyfriend for not telling him that she was born a he before the relationship started. She got in trouble for a false indentity and he got off for insanity and had to go into counseling because of the event. Violence is never the answer but niether is lying. Be proud with who you was and what you have become.

    6. same-sex-marriage

      This is a very interesting topic in relation to transgenders when most transgenders are gay/lesbian. For an example, a male that transformed into a female dates other men and vice versa. They have also proved that love nor sex was the cause of the same-sex-marriage campaign but a cover to have the ability to gain tax right offs.

    7. those who support them want to allow “men in women’s bathrooms” and enable other predatory behavior

      This is important because I had watched on the news where there was a woman that was born a man sent to an all womens prison and was abusing all the women that "he" or "she" came in contact with, such as in the showers and bathrooms. The transgender was taken to court on assualt charges and many people thought this could of all been prevented if the transgender was sent to a mens jail based on her birth sex.

    8. Those opposed to transgender bathroom rights are obvious bigots

      It comes a point where people who want to change social norms attack people with the social norms that they are attacking. For an example, I was asked if I would date a man that was born a female. My answer was no because one day I wanted to have children with my future husband. I was called a bigot for not being open-minded.

      I have never attacked transgender or any group for that matter but for some reason as more different groups come out, they always come out trying to force their ways onto the people who have no interest in forcing their beliefs back.

    9. Male (man) or female (woman) refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth

      The biggest issue that comes from publically defining gender is the comparison to other species. The definition of a male and female are based on two chromosomes seperated by one letter: XY and XX. However, multiple species change gender naturally because carrying a child takes time, energy, and work.

      Unfortuantely, some people don't understand why genders were made. Therefore, you have the people who does understand that gender represents who can give birth and who cannot; compared to the people who believe they were born in the wrong body and want to physically change it by multiple surgies and horomones. Now, there is a definition that has to be revised to accomadate all of humanity.

    10. Bazelon, Emily. "Making Bathrooms More 'Accommodating'." The New York Times. The New York Times, 17 Nov. 2015. Web. 24 Mar. 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/making-bathrooms-more-accommodating.html?_r=0.

      "Making Bathrooms more Accomadating" is an article about how transgenders want to go in to public spaces with their identified gender. It tells how men transforming into women just want to be one of the girls. They feel more confort being in the presence of females, such as in bathrooms and locker rooms. However, females transforming into males tend to use unisex bathrooms and don't mind being away from either gender.

      Schools have allowed students to associate with whatever gender they please and even call them by preffered pronouns and names. They can use the locer rooms associated withe their genders if a curtain is provided but the big issue is public restrooms. Most females don't want a female-looking man in the bathroom with them so law keeps a born man in the men's restrooms and vice versa.However,transgendered people believe the world could be more accoumadating to their needs since they accomadate to everyone's elses needs by following the laws of what defines a male from a female.